I'm using doxygen for commenting code. There is, for example, two files:
test1.cpp:
/**
* #namespace SomeNamespace
* #brief Describe it
*/
namespace SomeNamespace
{
...
}
test2.cpp:
// Put comment about namespace again?
namespace SomeNamespace
{
...
}
When you comment same stuff in different files, comments get concatenated in Doxygen output. I experience it at least when commenting both function declaration and function body.
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What I would like is to write something like this:
/**
* Takes a foo and {#link grokelates} it.
*/
function doSomething(foo) {
}
And have "grokelates" be a link to more detail on what "grokelate" means, but because I'm going to have functions dealing with grokelation all over my code base, I'd like to write that definition once and link to it in multiple places.
Is this possible?
To be clear, grokelates is not a function. It's just a word I want to define, but not have to define in-line everywhere I use it. I basically want to write a glossary file and be able to link to definitions from that glossary in my JSDoc.
Ideally this would also be in a way the VS Code picks it up and lets someone navigate to that definition on hover.
Yes there is. When you run jsdoc to generate your documentation, you can pass it any filetype you wish. A standard practice is to create one or more *.jsdoc files which contain doclet comments (those that begin with /**) to describe features you expect to use elsewhere in your code. For instance:
// filename: grokelation.jsdoc
/**
* #module grokelates
*/
/**
* #name Grokelate
* #memberof module:grokelates
* #description
* Here is the description of the grokelation process.
*
* #example
* var g = new Grokelate(opts);
*/
Then, when you wish to reference this new object elsewhere in your documentation, simply use its long name module:grokelates~Grokelate where you can consider the ~ glyph to mean "member of".
In your example above, you'd say {#link module:grokelates~Grokelate}.
I want to combine the docs of two libraries: Bar and MyBar. However, this is causing strange problems with overlapping paths.
Consider this project:
Doxyfile
Bar/config.h
MyBar/config.h
with Doxyfile
INPUT = Bar MyBar
and Bar/config.h:
/**
Lorem ipsum
\file Bar/config.h
*/
/**
Some bar lib.
*/
namespace Bar {
} // namespace Bar
and MyBar/config.h:
/**
Lorem ipsum
\file MyBar/config.h
*/
#include <Bar/config.h>
/**
Some other library
*/
namespace MyBar {
} // namespace MyBar
Building with doxygen 1.9.1 gives the following warning:
Bar/config.h:4: warning: the name 'Bar/config.h' supplied as the argument in the \file statement matches the following input files:
/myprojectdir/Bar/config.h
/myprojectdir/MyBar/config.h
Please use a more specific name by including a (larger) part of the path!
I really don't know how to solve this: there is no larger part of the path to be specified (in relative sense).
The usage of the directory name in the \file is a potential source of problems.
When the documentation block of the file is in the file itself there are 2 solutions:
use the \file command without the name of the file
use the \file command without the directory
Personally I would go for the first solution as in case of a renaming of the file this has not to be done with the \file command as well.
i use doxygen 1.8.15 for the first time.
I generate Doxyfile by doxygen -g and try to create documentation just by doxygen.
Among other i have in the base directory test.cpp looking like this:
/**
* This is a test. doc for an enum
*/
enum Test {
/**
* doc for an item
*/
SomeItem
};
I expect the html output in html/index.html but this is essentially an empty site.
The following is an extract of the output:
Parsing files
Preprocessing /home/ernst/Ankrit/Software/Products/Recon/recon/Mbed/main.cpp...
Parsing file /home/ernst/Ankrit/Software/Products/Recon/recon/Mbed/main.cpp...
Reading /home/ernst/Ankrit/Software/Products/Recon/recon/Mbed/mbed_settings.py...
Parsing file /home/ernst/Ankrit/Software/Products/Recon/recon/Mbed/mbed_settings.py...
Preprocessing /home/ernst/Ankrit/Software/Products/Recon/recon/Mbed/test.cpp...
Parsing file /home/ernst/Ankrit/Software/Products/Recon/recon/Mbed/test.cpp...
Building group list...
As you can see test.cpp is inside. But in the results nothing on cpp shows up, only mbed_settings.
What did i do wrong?
When e.g. cpp code doxygen has the "habit" of not finding some information when no corresponding .h file is present.
With the aid of the \file command this problem can be overcome, so the code:
/// \file
/**
* This is a test. doc for an enum
*/
enum Test {
/**
* doc for an item
*/
SomeItem
};
gives the requested result.
I'm trying to generate a doxygen document where I have two documentation instances for functions. One describes the usage(interface) of the functions that get pulled from the function header in the .h file and the other describes implementation of the function that gets pulled from the .c file. I basically want to describe the same function in two different ways based on where the file that the description came from(.h or .c). I thought this would help the usability of the document since you can easily ignore the implementation details if you only care about how to use the functions. My best attempt was to try to add the .h and the .c files to separate groups like this.
example.h
/**
* #defgroup exampleInterface Example Interface
* #{
*/
/**
* This is the header file so I describe how to use this function
* #param arg
* #returns something
*/
int someFunction(int arg);
/**
* #}
*/
example .c
/**
* #defgroup exampleImpl Example Implementation
* #{
*/
/**
* This is the .c file so I describe how this function is implemented.
*/
int someFunction(int arg)
{
... Some code ...
}
/**
* #}
*/
The result was that the function header descriptions were still combined. Is there anyway to accomplish this in doxygen? Maybe there is another way I should look at this problem.
Thanks.
A possible hack you could try is to use the #internal command for the implementation which would mean you would run doxygen twice: once without the internal (for the external definitions) and the other with the inernal which would combine them.
I'm trying to document a Javascript file with JSDoc(3) like so:
/** 1 if gnome-bluetooth is available, 0 otherwise
* #type {boolean}
* #const
*/
const HAVE_BLUETOOTH = #HAVE_BLUETOOTH#;
Now the file (called config.js.in) is not on its own valid Javascript; the file gets run through a Makefile which substitutes an appropriate value for #HAVE_BLUETOOTH#.
When I try to run JSdoc on this, it (understandably) balks because of the syntax error in the file.
Is there some way to tell JSDoc to ignore all code in this file but simply take into account the annotations? (I might have to add #name tags to each doclet to completely separate the documentation from the code; that's fine).
Something like:
/** 1 if gnome-bluetooth is available, 0 otherwise
* #name HAVE_BLUETOOTH
* #type {boolean}
* #const
*/
/** #ignore */ // somehow ignore from here onwards
const HAVE_BLUETOOTH = #HAVE_BLUETOOTH#;
/** !#ignore */ // somehow don't ignore from here onwards (although I'd be happy
// to ignore the entire file)
I'd prefer not to modify the code part of the file, if possible (I'm adding documentation to an existing project). For example, I could probably get around it with
const HAVE_BLUETOOTH = parseInt('#HAVE_BLUETOOTH#', 10);
which would make the file have valid JS syntax again so that the parser doesn't complain, but this also means I'm modifying the code of the original file which I want to avoid (I prefer to just add documentation).
cheers
My case is similar because I use JSDoc to comment my .less and .css file. When I running JSDoc on set of file, I have the same issue.
So, I resolve my problem (with JSDoc 3.3.3) with the commentsOnly JSDoc plugin
https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc/blob/master/plugins/commentsOnly.js
I have create this config.json:
{
"source": {
"includePattern": ".+\\.(css|less)?$"
},
"plugins": [
"plugin/commentsOnly"
]
}
with the commentsOnly.js file into a plugin/ directory (consider plugin/ and config.json are in same folder) and in this folder I execute the following CLI command:
jsdoc -c ./config.json ./assets/stylesheets/common.less
And it's work ! There are no reason this do not work with your files.
Hope I help you ;)