Re: [PATCH] docs: fix documentation of enum constants

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On 07/21/2017 12:25 PM, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Jul 2017 10:12:38 +0200
> Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> On 07/20/2017 08:21 PM, Tomáš Golembiovský wrote:
>>> The documentation string has to follow the definition of a constant in
>>> the enum. Otherwise, the HTML documentation will be generated
>>> incorrectly.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Tomáš Golembiovský <tgolembi@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>>  include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>>  1 file changed, 31 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h b/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
>>> index 45f939a8c..2f3162d0f 100644
>>> --- a/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
>>> +++ b/include/libvirt/libvirt-domain.h
>>> @@ -583,56 +583,56 @@ typedef virDomainInterfaceStatsStruct *virDomainInterfaceStatsPtr;
>>>   * Memory Statistics Tags:
>>>   */
>>>  typedef enum {
>>> -    /* The total amount of data read from swap space (in kB). */
>>>      VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_SWAP_IN         = 0,
>>> -    /* The total amount of memory written out to swap space (in kB). */
>>> +    /* The total amount of data read from swap space (in kB). */
>>>      VIR_DOMAIN_MEMORY_STAT_SWAP_OUT        = 1,
>>> +    /* The total amount of memory written out to swap space (in kB). */  
>>
>> While this fixes generated HTML, it messes up the header file. So if
>> somebody is looking directly into header file they might get confused.
>> The problem is in our doc generator.
> 
> I agree that it's not ideal solution. But since it's already used in the
> header, e.g. in virDomainBlockJobType and
> virDomainEventShutdownDetailType, 

This one actually looks okay. Did you perhaps mean
virConnectDomainEventDiskChangeReason?

> I assumed it's acceptable. And the
> overall readability is not that bad because the constant+doc pairs are
> separated with newline from one another.

Nope. It's not. I've sent a patch that fixes those two places (I've went
through all of our public headers and found just those two though):

https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2017-July/msg00871.html

> 
> 
> 
>> I recall this being discussed
>> somewhere recently (probably on the list?). The proper fix IMO is to fix
>> the generator so that it accepts both:
> 
> That would be the best solution, but I'm too scared to look at the
> generator. That would be a job for somebody else.

Yeah. Our generator is not that great. I wish that we'd switch to
something already out there so that we don't have to maintain our own
generator.

Michal

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