Fix #7535: sphinx-autogen: crashes when custom template uses inheritance

CHANGES

@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Features added
   caption to the toctree
 * #248, #6040: autosummary: Add ``:recursive:`` option to autosummary directive
   to generate stub files recursively
+* #7535: sphinx-autogen: crashes when custom template uses inheritance
 * #7481: html theme: Add right margin to footnote/citation labels
 * #7482: html theme: CSS spacing for code blocks with captions and line numbers
 * #7443: html theme: Add new options :confval:`globaltoc_collapse` and

sphinx/ext/autosummary/generate.py

@@ -25,25 +25,27 @@ import pydoc
 import re
 import sys
 import warnings
+from os import path
 from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, NamedTuple, Set, Tuple
 
-from jinja2 import BaseLoader, FileSystemLoader, TemplateNotFound
+from jinja2 import TemplateNotFound
 from jinja2.sandbox import SandboxedEnvironment
 
 import sphinx.locale
 from sphinx import __display_version__
 from sphinx import package_dir
 from sphinx.builders import Builder
+from sphinx.config import Config
 from sphinx.deprecation import RemovedInSphinx40Warning, RemovedInSphinx50Warning
 from sphinx.ext.autodoc import Documenter
 from sphinx.ext.autosummary import import_by_name, get_documenter
-from sphinx.jinja2glue import BuiltinTemplateLoader
 from sphinx.locale import __
 from sphinx.registry import SphinxComponentRegistry
 from sphinx.util import logging
 from sphinx.util import rst
 from sphinx.util.inspect import safe_getattr
 from sphinx.util.osutil import ensuredir
+from sphinx.util.template import SphinxTemplateLoader
 
 if False:
     # For type annotation
@@ -59,6 +61,7 @@ class DummyApplication:
     def __init__(self) -> None:
         self.registry = SphinxComponentRegistry()
         self.messagelog = []  # type: List[str]
+        self.translator = None
         self.verbosity = 0
         self._warncount = 0
         self.warningiserror = False
@@ -67,6 +70,21 @@ class DummyApplication:
         pass
 
 
+class DummyBuilder:
+    """Dummy builder class for sphinx-autogen command."""
+
+    def __init__(self, app: DummyApplication, template_path: str) -> None:
+        if template_path:
+            templates_path = [path.abspath(template_path)]
+        else:
+            templates_path = []
+
+        self.app = app
+        self.srcdir = "/"
+        self.config = Config(overrides={'templates_path': templates_path})
+        self.config.init_values()
+
+
 AutosummaryEntry = NamedTuple('AutosummaryEntry', [('name', str),
                                                    ('path', str),
                                                    ('template', str),
@@ -110,16 +128,10 @@ class AutosummaryRenderer:
     """A helper class for rendering."""
 
     def __init__(self, builder: Builder, template_dir: str) -> None:
-        loader = None  # type: BaseLoader
+        system_templates_path = [os.path.join(package_dir, 'ext', 'autosummary', 'templates')]
-        template_dirs = [os.path.join(package_dir, 'ext', 'autosummary', 'templates')]
+        loader = SphinxTemplateLoader(builder.srcdir,
-        if builder is None:
+                                      builder.config.templates_path,
-            if template_dir:
+                                      system_templates_path)
-                template_dirs.insert(0, template_dir)
-            loader = FileSystemLoader(template_dirs)
-        else:
-            # allow the user to override the templates
-            loader = BuiltinTemplateLoader()
-            loader.init(builder, dirs=template_dirs)
 
         self.env = SandboxedEnvironment(loader=loader)
         self.env.filters['escape'] = rst.escape
@@ -514,9 +526,9 @@ def main(argv: List[str] = sys.argv[1:]) -> None:
     logging.setup(app, sys.stdout, sys.stderr)  # type: ignore
     setup_documenters(app)
     args = get_parser().parse_args(argv)
+    builder = DummyBuilder(app, args.templates)
     generate_autosummary_docs(args.source_file, args.output_dir,
-                              '.' + args.suffix,
+                              '.' + args.suffix, builder=builder,  # type: ignore
-                              template_dir=args.templates,
                               imported_members=args.imported_members,
                               app=app)
 

sphinx/util/template.py

@@ -10,8 +10,11 @@
 
 import os
 from functools import partial
-from typing import Dict, List, Union
+from os import path
+from typing import Callable, Dict, List, Tuple, Union
 
+from jinja2 import TemplateNotFound
+from jinja2.environment import Environment
 from jinja2.loaders import BaseLoader
 from jinja2.sandbox import SandboxedEnvironment
 
@@ -94,3 +97,36 @@ class ReSTRenderer(SphinxRenderer):
         self.env.filters['e'] = rst.escape
         self.env.filters['escape'] = rst.escape
         self.env.filters['heading'] = rst.heading
+
+
+class SphinxTemplateLoader(BaseLoader):
+    """A loader supporting template inheritance"""
+
+    def __init__(self, confdir: str, templates_paths: List[str],
+                 system_templates_paths: List[str]) -> None:
+        self.loaders = []
+        self.sysloaders = []
+
+        for templates_path in templates_paths:
+            loader = SphinxFileSystemLoader(path.join(confdir, templates_path))
+            self.loaders.append(loader)
+
+        for templates_path in system_templates_paths:
+            loader = SphinxFileSystemLoader(templates_path)
+            self.loaders.append(loader)
+            self.sysloaders.append(loader)
+
+    def get_source(self, environment: Environment, template: str) -> Tuple[str, str, Callable]:
+        if template.startswith('!'):
+            # search a template from ``system_templates_paths``
+            loaders = self.sysloaders
+            template = template[1:]
+        else:
+            loaders = self.loaders
+
+        for loader in loaders:
+            try:
+                return loader.get_source(environment, template)
+            except TemplateNotFound:
+                pass
+        raise TemplateNotFound(template)