Stevedore includes an extension for integrating with Sphinx to
automatically produce documentation about the supported plugins. To
activate the plugin add stevedore.sphinxext
to the list of
extensions in your conf.py
.
.. list-plugins::
namespace
¶List the plugins in a namespace.
Options:
detailed
overline-style
underline-style
=
.By default, the list-plugins
directive produces a simple list of
plugins in a given namespace including the name and the first line of
the docstring. For example:
.. list-plugins:: stevedore.example.formatter
produces
Adding the detailed
flag to the directive causes the output to
include a separate subsection for each plugin, with the full docstring
rendered. The section heading level can be controlled using the
underline-style
and overline-style
options to fit the results
into the structure of your existing document.
.. list-plugins:: stevedore.example.formatter
:detailed:
produces
Format values as a reStructuredText field list.
For example:
: name1 : value
: name2 : value
: name3 : a long value
will be wrapped with
a hanging indent
A very basic formatter.
A very basic formatter.
Note
Depending on how Sphinx is configured, bad reStructuredText syntax in the docstrings of the plugins may cause the documentation build to fail completely when detailed mode is enabled.
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