sphinx/doc/usage/extensions/coverage.rst
Stephen Finucane 6b37a6b2a2
Allow explicitly specifying modules in the coverage builder (#11592)
Currently there is no mechanism to identify totally undocumented modules
in the coverage builder, unlike with partially documented modules.
Resolve this by introducing a new ``coverage_modules`` config option.
This is a list of modules that should be documented somewhere
within the documentation tree. 
Any modules that are specified in the configuration value but 
are not documented anywhere will result in a warning. 
Likewise, any modules that are not in the config option but 
are documented somewhere will result in a warning.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <stephen@that.guru>
2024-07-11 07:36:36 +01:00

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:mod:`sphinx.ext.coverage` -- Collect doc coverage stats
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.. module:: sphinx.ext.coverage
:synopsis: Check Python modules and C API for coverage in the documentation.
This extension features one additional builder, the :class:`CoverageBuilder`.
.. todo:: Write this section.
.. note::
The :doc:`sphinx-apidoc </man/sphinx-apidoc>` command can be used to
automatically generate API documentation for all code in a project,
avoiding the need to manually author these documents and keep them up-to-date.
.. warning::
:mod:`~sphinx.ext.coverage` **imports** the modules to be documented.
If any modules have side effects on import,
these will be executed by the coverage builder when ``sphinx-build`` is run.
If you document scripts (as opposed to library modules),
make sure their main routine is protected by a
``if __name__ == '__main__'`` condition.
.. note::
For Sphinx (actually, the Python interpreter that executes Sphinx)
to find your module, it must be importable.
That means that the module or the package must be in
one of the directories on :data:`sys.path` -- adapt your :data:`sys.path`
in the configuration file accordingly.
To use this builder, activate the coverage extension in your configuration file
and run ``sphinx-build -M coverage`` on the command line.
Builder
-------
.. py:class:: CoverageBuilder
Configuration
-------------
Several configuration values can be used to specify
what the builder should check:
.. confval:: coverage_modules
:type: ``list[str]``
:default: ``[]``
List of Python packages or modules to test coverage for.
When this is provided, Sphinx will introspect each package
or module provided in this list as well
as all sub-packages and sub-modules found in each.
When this is not provided, Sphinx will only provide coverage
for Python packages and modules that it is aware of:
that is, any modules documented using the :rst:dir:`py:module` directive
provided in the :doc:`Python domain </usage/domains/python>`
or the :rst:dir:`automodule` directive provided by the
:mod:`~sphinx.ext.autodoc` extension.
.. versionadded:: 7.4
.. confval:: coverage_ignore_modules
.. confval:: coverage_ignore_functions
.. confval:: coverage_ignore_classes
.. confval:: coverage_ignore_pyobjects
List of `Python regular expressions`_.
If any of these regular expressions matches any part of the full import path
of a Python object, that Python object is excluded from the documentation
coverage report.
.. _Python regular expressions: https://docs.python.org/library/re
.. versionadded:: 2.1
.. confval:: coverage_c_path
.. confval:: coverage_c_regexes
.. confval:: coverage_ignore_c_items
.. confval:: coverage_write_headline
Set to ``False`` to not write headlines.
.. versionadded:: 1.1
.. confval:: coverage_skip_undoc_in_source
Skip objects that are not documented in the source with a docstring.
``False`` by default.
.. versionadded:: 1.1
.. confval:: coverage_show_missing_items
Print objects that are missing to standard output also.
``False`` by default.
.. versionadded:: 3.1
.. confval:: coverage_statistics_to_report
Print a tabular report of the coverage statistics to the coverage report.
``True`` by default.
Example output:
.. code-block:: text
+-----------------------+----------+--------------+
| Module | Coverage | Undocumented |
+=======================+==========+==============+
| package.foo_module | 100.00% | 0 |
+-----------------------+----------+--------------+
| package.bar_module | 83.33% | 1 |
+-----------------------+----------+--------------+
.. versionadded:: 7.2
.. confval:: coverage_statistics_to_stdout
Print a tabular report of the coverage statistics to standard output.
``False`` by default.
Example output:
.. code-block:: text
+-----------------------+----------+--------------+
| Module | Coverage | Undocumented |
+=======================+==========+==============+
| package.foo_module | 100.00% | 0 |
+-----------------------+----------+--------------+
| package.bar_module | 83.33% | 1 |
+-----------------------+----------+--------------+
.. versionadded:: 7.2