class YARD::Handlers::Base
Handlers are pluggable semantic parsers for YARD's code generation phase. They allow developers to control what information gets generated by YARD, giving them the ability to, for instance, document any Ruby DSLs that a customized framework may use. A good example of this would be the ability to document and generate meta data for the 'describe' declaration of the RSpec testing framework by simply adding a handler for such a keyword. Similarly, any Ruby API that takes advantage of class level declarations could add these to the documentation in a very explicit format by treating them as first- class objects in any outputted documentation.
Overview of a Typical Handler Scenario¶ ↑
Generally, a handler class will declare a set of statements which it will handle using the {handles} class declaration. It will then implement the {#process} method to do the work. The processing would usually involve the manipulation of the {#namespace}, {#owner} {CodeObjects::Base code objects} or the creation of new ones, in which case they should be registered by {#register}, a method that sets some basic attributes for the new objects.
Handlers are usually simple and take up to a
page of code to process and register a new object or add new attributes to
the current namespace
.
Setting up a Handler for Use¶ ↑
A Handler is automatically registered when it is subclassed from the base
class. The only other thing that needs to be done is to specify which
statement the handler will process. This is done with the
handles
declaration, taking either a
{Parser::Ruby::Legacy::RubyToken}, {String} or `Regexp`. Here is a simple
example which processes module statements.
class MyModuleHandler < YARD::Handlers::Base handles TkMODULE def process # do something end end
Processing Handler Data¶ ↑
The goal of a specific handler is really up to the developer, and as such there is no real guideline on how to process the data. However, it is important to know where the data is coming from to be able to use it.
statement
Attribute¶ ↑
The statement
attribute pertains to the
{Parser::Ruby::Legacy::Statement} object containing a set of tokens parsed
in by the parser. This is the main set of data to be analyzed and
processed. The comments attached to the statement can be accessed by the
{Parser::Ruby::Legacy::Statement#comments} method, but generally the data
to be processed will live in the tokens
attribute. This list
can be converted to a String
using #to_s
to parse
the data with regular expressions (or other text processing mechanisms), if
needed.
namespace
Attribute¶ ↑
The namespace
attribute is a {CodeObjects::NamespaceObject
namespace object} which represents the current namespace that the parser is
in. For instance:
module SomeModule class MyClass def mymethod; end end end
If a handler was to parse the 'class MyClass' statement, it would
be necessary to know that it belonged inside the SomeModule module. This is
the value that namespace
would return when processing such a
statement. If the class was then entered and another handler was called on
the method, the namespace
would be set to the
'MyClass' code object.
owner
Attribute¶ ↑
The owner
attribute is similar to the namespace
attribute in that it also follows the scope of the code during parsing.
However, a namespace object is loosely defined as a module or class and YARD has the ability to parse beyond module and
class blocks (inside methods, for instance), so the owner
attribute would not be limited to modules and classes.
To put this into context, the example from above will be used. If a method
handler was added to the mix and decided to parse inside the method body,
the owner
would be set to the method object but the namespace
would remain set to the class. This would allow the developer to process
any method definitions set inside a method (def x; def y; 2 end end) by
adding them to the correct namespace (the class, not the method).
In summary, the distinction between namespace
and
owner
can be thought of as the difference between first-class
Ruby objects (namespaces) and second-class Ruby objects (methods).
visibility
and scope
Attributes¶ ↑
Mainly needed for parsing methods, the visibility
and
scope
attributes refer to the public/protected/private and
class/instance values (respectively) of the current parsing position.
Parsing Blocks in Statements¶ ↑
In addition to parsing a statement and creating new objects, some handlers may wish to continue parsing the code inside the statement's block (if there is one). In this context, a block means the inside of any statement, be it class definition, module definition, if statement or classic 'Ruby block'.
For example, a class statement would be “class MyClass” and the block would
be a list of statements including the method definitions inside the class.
For a class handler, the programmer would execute the {#parse_block} method
to continue parsing code inside the block, with the namespace
now pointing to the class object the handler created.
YARD has the ability to continue into any block: class, module, method, even if statements. For this reason, the block parsing method must be invoked explicitly out of efficiency sake.
@abstract Subclass this class to provide a handler for YARD to use
during the processing phase.
@see CodeObjects::Base @see CodeObjects::NamespaceObject @see handles @see namespace @see owner @see register @see parse_block
Attributes
@return [Processor] the processor object that manages all global state
during handling.
@return [Object] the statement object currently being processed. Usually
refers to one semantic language statement, though the strict definition depends on the parser used.
Public Class Methods
Clear all registered subclasses. Testing purposes only @return [void]
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 158 def clear_subclasses @@subclasses = [] end
@return [Array] a list of matchers for the handler object. @see handles?
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 210 def handlers @handlers ||= [] end
Declares the statement type which will be processed by this handler.
A match need not be unique to a handler. Multiple handlers can process the same statement. However, in this case, care should be taken to make sure that {#parse_block} would only be executed by one of the handlers, otherwise the same code will be parsed multiple times and slow YARD down.
@param [Parser::RubyToken, Symbol, String, Regexp] matches
statements that match the declaration will be processed by this handler. A {String} match is equivalent to a +/\Astring/+ regular expression (match from the beginning of the line), and all token matches match only the first token of the statement.
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 191 def handles(*matches) (@handlers ||= []).push(*matches) end
This class is implemented by {Ruby::Base} and {Ruby::Legacy::Base}. To implement a base handler class for another language, implement this method to return true if the handler should process the given statement object. Use {handlers} to enumerate the matchers declared for the handler class.
@param statement a statement object or node (depends on language type) @return [Boolean] whether or not this handler object should process
the given statement
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 204 def handles?(statement) raise NotImplementedError, "override #handles? in a subclass" end
Declares that a handler should only be called when inside a filename by its basename or a regex match for the full path.
@param [String, Regexp] filename a matching filename or regex @return [void] @since 0.6.2
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 234 def in_file(filename) (@in_files ||= []) << filename end
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 168 def inherited(subclass) @@subclasses ||= [] @@subclasses << subclass end
@return [Boolean] whether the filename matches the declared file
match for a handler. If no file match is specified, returns true.
@since 0.6.2
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 241 def matches_file?(filename) @in_files ||= nil # avoid ruby warnings return true unless @in_files @in_files.any? do |in_file| case in_file when String File.basename(filename) == in_file when Regexp filename =~ in_file else true end end end
Declares that the handler should only be called when inside a {CodeObjects::NamespaceObject}, not a method body.
@return [void]
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 218 def namespace_only @namespace_only = true end
@return [Boolean] whether the handler should only be processed inside
a namespace.
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 224 def namespace_only? (@namespace_only ||= false) ? true : false end
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 275 def initialize(source_parser, stmt) @parser = source_parser @statement = stmt end
Generates a process
method, equivalent to +def process; …
end+. Blocks defined with this syntax will be wrapped inside an anonymous
module so that the handler class can be extended with mixins that override
the process
method without alias chaining.
@!macro yard.handlers.process
@!method process Main processing callback @return [void]
@see process @return [void] @since 0.5.4
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 268 def process(&block) mod = Module.new mod.send(:define_method, :process, &block) include mod end
Returns all registered handler subclasses. @return [Array<Base>] a list of handlers
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 164 def subclasses @@subclasses ||= [] end
Public Instance Methods
Aborts a handler by raising {Handlers::HandlerAborted}. An exception will only be logged in debugging mode for this kind of handler exit.
@since 0.8.4
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 354 def abort! raise Handlers::HandlerAborted end
@abstract Implement this method to return the parameters in a method call
statement. It should return an empty list if the statement is not a method call.
@return [Array<String>] a list of argument names
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 583 def call_params raise NotImplementedError end
@abstract Implement this method to return the method being called in
a method call. It should return nil if the statement is not a method call.
@return [String] the method name being called @return [nil] if the statement is not a method call
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 592 def caller_method raise NotImplementedError end
Ensures that a specific object
has been parsed and loaded into
the registry. This is necessary when adding data to a namespace, for
instance, since the namespace may not have been processed yet (it can be
located in a file that has not been handled).
Calling this method defers the handler until all other files have been processed. If the object gets resolved, the rest of the handler continues, otherwise an exception is raised.
@example Adding a mixin to the String class programmatically
ensure_loaded! P('String') # "String" is now guaranteed to be loaded P('String').mixins << P('MyMixin')
@param [Proxy, CodeObjects::Base] object the object to resolve. @param [Integer] max_retries the number of times to defer the handler
before raising a +NamespaceMissingError+.
@raise [NamespaceMissingError] if the object is not resolved within
+max_retries+ attempts, this exception is raised and the handler finishes processing.
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 560 def ensure_loaded!(object, max_retries = 1) return if object.root? return object unless object.is_a?(Proxy) retries = 0 while object.is_a?(Proxy) if retries <= max_retries log.debug "Missing object #{object} in file `#{parser.file}', moving it to the back of the line." parser.parse_remaining_files else raise NamespaceMissingError, object end retries += 1 end object end
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 341 def namespace=(v); parser.namespace=(v) end
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 339 def owner=(v) parser.owner=(v) end
Parses the semantic “block” contained in the statement node.
@abstract Subclasses should call {Processor#process parser.process}
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 303 def parse_block(*args) raise NotImplementedError, "#{self} did not implement a #parse_block method for handling" end
The main handler method called by the parser on a statement that matches the {handles} declaration.
Subclasses should override this method to provide the handling functionality for the class.
@return [Array<CodeObjects::Base>, CodeObjects::Base, Object]
If this method returns a code object (or a list of them), they are passed to the +#register+ method which adds basic attributes. It is not necessary to return any objects and in some cases you may want to explicitly avoid the returning of any objects for post-processing by the register method.
@see handles @see register
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 296 def process raise NotImplementedError, "#{self} did not implement a #process method for handling." end
Executes a given block with specific state values for {#owner}, {#namespace} and {#scope}.
@param [Proc] block the block to execute with specific state @option opts [CodeObjects::NamespaceObject] :namespace (value of namespace)
the namespace object that {#namespace} will be equal to for the duration of the block.
@option opts [Symbol] :scope (:instance)
the scope for the duration of the block.
@option opts [CodeObjects::Base] :owner (value of owner)
the owner object (method) for the duration of the block
@yield a block to execute with the given state values.
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 370 def push_state(opts = {}, &block) opts = { :namespace => namespace, :scope => :instance, :owner => owner || namespace, :visibility => nil }.update(opts) ns, vis, sc, oo = namespace, visibility, scope, owner self.namespace = opts[:namespace] self.visibility = opts[:visibility] || :public self.scope = opts[:scope] self.owner = opts[:owner] yield self.namespace = ns self.visibility = vis self.scope = sc self.owner = oo end
Do some post processing on a list of code objects. Adds basic attributes to the list of objects like the filename, line number, {CodeObjects::Base#dynamic}, source code and {CodeObjects::Base#docstring}, but only if they don't exist.
@param [Array<CodeObjects::Base>] objects
the list of objects to post-process.
@return [CodeObjects::Base, Array<CodeObjects::Base>]
returns whatever is passed in, for chainability.
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 404 def register(*objects) objects.flatten.each do |object| next unless object.is_a?(CodeObjects::Base) register_ensure_loaded(object) yield(object) if block_given? register_file_info(object) register_source(object) register_visibility(object) register_docstring(object) register_group(object) register_dynamic(object) register_module_function(object) end objects.size == 1 ? objects.first : objects end
Registers any docstring found for the object and expands macros
@param [CodeObjects::Base] object the object to register @return [void] @since 0.8.0
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 448 def register_docstring(object, docstring = statement.comments, stmt = statement) docstring = docstring.join("\n") if Array === docstring parser = Docstring.parser parser.parse(docstring || "", object, self) if object && docstring object.docstring = parser.to_docstring # Add hash_flag/line_range if stmt object.docstring.hash_flag = stmt.comments_hash_flag object.docstring.line_range = stmt.comments_range end end register_transitive_tags(object) end
Registers the object as dynamic if the object is defined inside a method or block (owner != namespace)
@param [CodeObjects::Base] object the object to register @return [void] @since 0.8.0
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 536 def register_dynamic(object) object.dynamic = true if owner != namespace end
Ensures that the object's namespace is loaded before attaching it to the namespace.
@param [CodeObjects::Base] object the object to register @return [void] @since 0.8.0
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 426 def register_ensure_loaded(object) begin ensure_loaded!(object.namespace) object.namespace.children << object rescue NamespaceMissingError end end
Registers the file/line of the declaration with the object
@param [CodeObjects::Base] object the object to register @return [void] @since 0.8.0
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 439 def register_file_info(object, file = parser.file, line = statement.line, comments = statement.comments) object.add_file(file, line, comments) end
Registers the object as being inside a specific group
@param [CodeObjects::Base] object the object to register @return [void] @since 0.8.0
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 471 def register_group(object, group = extra_state.group) if group unless object.namespace.is_a?(Proxy) object.namespace.groups |= [group] end object.group = group end end
Registers the same method information on the module function, if the object was defined as a module function.
@param [CodeObjects::Base] object the possible module function object
to copy data for
@since 0.8.0
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 522 def register_module_function(object) return unless object.is_a?(MethodObject) return unless object.module_function? modobj = MethodObject.new(object.namespace, object.name) object.copy_to(modobj) modobj.visibility = :private end
@param [CodeObjects::Base] object the object to register @return [void] @since 0.8.0
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 498 def register_source(object, source = statement, type = parser.parser_type) return unless object.is_a?(MethodObject) object.source ||= source object.source_type = type end
Registers visibility on a method object. If the object does not respond to setting visibility, nothing is done.
@param [#visibility=] object the object to register @param [Symbol] visibility the visibility to set on the object @since 0.8.0
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 510 def register_visibility(object, visibility = self.visibility) return unless object.respond_to?(:visibility=) return if object.is_a?(NamespaceObject) object.visibility = visibility end
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 345 def scope=(v); parser.scope=(v) end
# File lib/yard/handlers/base.rb, line 343 def visibility=(v); parser.visibility=(v) end