[ovs-dev] [PATCH 6/8] ovsdb-doc: Factor out nroff formatting into a separate Python module.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Thu Feb 19 18:59:55 UTC 2015


On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 09:23:55AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 09:12:07AM -0800, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 9:09 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:00:56AM -0500, Russell Bryant wrote:
> > >> On 02/19/2015 07:02 AM, Gurucharan Shetty wrote:
> > >> > I don't understand nroff well enough to review patch 6 and patch 7. If
> > >> > anyone else is up for it, please review.
> > >>
> > >> I don't either, but this one looks like just a code move.  It looks good
> > >> to me.
> > >
> > > That's right, this is just code movement.
> > It did look like you added an additional function while code
> > refactoring. Maybe I did not look carefully.
> 
> Oh, looking again, I added support for a <pic> element.  I didn't end
> up using that later in the series, so I'm happy to drop it.

Here it is without the added <pic> element support:

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From: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:59:12 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] ovsdb-doc: Factor out nroff formatting into a separate
 Python module.

This will make it cleaner to add another build-time program that generates
nroff from XML.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
---
 ovsdb/ovsdb-doc       |  135 ++----------------------------------
 python/automake.mk    |    6 ++
 python/build/nroff.py |  185 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 195 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 python/build/__init__.py
 create mode 100644 python/build/nroff.py

diff --git a/ovsdb/ovsdb-doc b/ovsdb/ovsdb-doc
index 15618ef..369efa9 100755
--- a/ovsdb/ovsdb-doc
+++ b/ovsdb/ovsdb-doc
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 from datetime import date
 import getopt
 import os
-import re
 import sys
 import xml.dom.minidom
 
@@ -11,136 +10,9 @@ import ovs.json
 from ovs.db import error
 import ovs.db.schema
 
-argv0 = sys.argv[0]
-
-def textToNroff(s, font=r'\fR'):
-    def escape(match):
-        c = match.group(0)
-        if c.startswith('-'):
-            if c != '-' or font == r'\fB':
-                return '\\' + c
-            else:
-                return '-'
-        if c == '\\':
-            return r'\e'
-        elif c == '"':
-            return r'\(dq'
-        elif c == "'":
-            return r'\(cq'
-        else:
-            raise error.Error("bad escape")
+from build.nroff import *
 
-    # Escape - \ " ' as needed by nroff.
-    s = re.sub('(-[0-9]|[-"\'\\\\])', escape, s)
-    if s.startswith('.'):
-        s = '\\' + s
-    return s
-
-def escapeNroffLiteral(s):
-    return r'\fB%s\fR' % textToNroff(s, r'\fB')
-
-def inlineXmlToNroff(node, font):
-    if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
-        return textToNroff(node.data, font)
-    elif node.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE:
-        if node.tagName in ['code', 'em', 'option']:
-            s = r'\fB'
-            for child in node.childNodes:
-                s += inlineXmlToNroff(child, r'\fB')
-            return s + font
-        elif node.tagName == 'ref':
-            s = r'\fB'
-            if node.hasAttribute('column'):
-                s += node.attributes['column'].nodeValue
-                if node.hasAttribute('key'):
-                    s += ':' + node.attributes['key'].nodeValue
-            elif node.hasAttribute('table'):
-                s += node.attributes['table'].nodeValue
-            elif node.hasAttribute('group'):
-                s += node.attributes['group'].nodeValue
-            else:
-                raise error.Error("'ref' lacks required attributes: %s" % node.attributes.keys())
-            return s + font
-        elif node.tagName == 'var':
-            s = r'\fI'
-            for child in node.childNodes:
-                s += inlineXmlToNroff(child, r'\fI')
-            return s + font
-        else:
-            raise error.Error("element <%s> unknown or invalid here" % node.tagName)
-    else:
-        raise error.Error("unknown node %s in inline xml" % node)
-
-def blockXmlToNroff(nodes, para='.PP'):
-    s = ''
-    for node in nodes:
-        if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
-            s += textToNroff(node.data)
-            s = s.lstrip()
-        elif node.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE:
-            if node.tagName in ['ul', 'ol']:
-                if s != "":
-                    s += "\n"
-                s += ".RS\n"
-                i = 0
-                for liNode in node.childNodes:
-                    if (liNode.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE
-                        and liNode.tagName == 'li'):
-                        i += 1
-                        if node.tagName == 'ul':
-                            s += ".IP \\(bu\n"
-                        else:
-                            s += ".IP %d. .25in\n" % i
-                        s += blockXmlToNroff(liNode.childNodes, ".IP")
-                    elif (liNode.nodeType != node.TEXT_NODE
-                          or not liNode.data.isspace()):
-                        raise error.Error("<%s> element may only have <li> children" % node.tagName)
-                s += ".RE\n"
-            elif node.tagName == 'dl':
-                if s != "":
-                    s += "\n"
-                s += ".RS\n"
-                prev = "dd"
-                for liNode in node.childNodes:
-                    if (liNode.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE
-                        and liNode.tagName == 'dt'):
-                        if prev == 'dd':
-                            s += '.TP\n'
-                        else:
-                            s += '.TQ\n'
-                        prev = 'dt'
-                    elif (liNode.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE
-                          and liNode.tagName == 'dd'):
-                        if prev == 'dd':
-                            s += '.IP\n'
-                        prev = 'dd'
-                    elif (liNode.nodeType != node.TEXT_NODE
-                          or not liNode.data.isspace()):
-                        raise error.Error("<dl> element may only have <dt> and <dd> children")
-                    s += blockXmlToNroff(liNode.childNodes, ".IP")
-                s += ".RE\n"
-            elif node.tagName == 'p':
-                if s != "":
-                    if not s.endswith("\n"):
-                        s += "\n"
-                    s += para + "\n"
-                s += blockXmlToNroff(node.childNodes, para)
-            elif node.tagName in ('h1', 'h2', 'h3'):
-                if s != "":
-                    if not s.endswith("\n"):
-                        s += "\n"
-                nroffTag = {'h1': 'SH', 'h2': 'SS', 'h3': 'ST'}[node.tagName]
-                s += ".%s " % nroffTag
-                for child_node in node.childNodes:
-                    s += inlineXmlToNroff(child_node, r'\fR')
-                s += "\n"
-            else:
-                s += inlineXmlToNroff(node, r'\fR')
-        else:
-            raise error.Error("unknown node %s in block xml" % node)
-    if s != "" and not s.endswith('\n'):
-        s += '\n'
-    return s
+argv0 = sys.argv[0]
 
 def typeAndConstraintsToNroff(column):
     type = column.type.toEnglish(escapeNroffLiteral)
@@ -283,8 +155,9 @@ def docsToNroff(schemaFile, xmlFile, erFile, version=None):
     # Putting '\" p as the first line tells "man" that the manpage
     # needs to be preprocessed by "pic".
     s = r''''\" p
-.TH "%s" 5 " DB Schema %s" "Open vSwitch %s" "Open vSwitch Manual"
 .\" -*- nroff -*-
+.TH "%s" 5 " DB Schema %s" "Open vSwitch %s" "Open vSwitch Manual"
+.fp 5 L CR              \\" Make fixed-width font available as \\fL.
 .de TQ
 .  br
 .  ns
diff --git a/python/automake.mk b/python/automake.mk
index 08e1204..f6ab606 100644
--- a/python/automake.mk
+++ b/python/automake.mk
@@ -35,6 +35,12 @@ ovs_pyfiles = \
 	python/ovs/version.py \
 	python/ovs/vlog.py
 
+# These python files are used at build time but not runtime,
+# so they are not installed.
+EXTRA_DIST += \
+	python/build/__init__.py \
+	python/build/nroff.py
+
 PYFILES = $(ovs_pyfiles) python/ovs/dirs.py $(ovstest_pyfiles)
 EXTRA_DIST += $(PYFILES)
 PYCOV_CLEAN_FILES += $(PYFILES:.py=.py,cover)
diff --git a/python/build/__init__.py b/python/build/__init__.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29
diff --git a/python/build/nroff.py b/python/build/nroff.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..55dc878
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python/build/nroff.py
@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2012, 2015 Nicira, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at:
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import re
+
+from ovs.db import error
+
+def textToNroff(s, font=r'\fR'):
+    def escape(match):
+        c = match.group(0)
+
+        # In Roman type, let -- in XML be \- in nroff.  That gives us a way to
+        # write minus signs, which is important in some places in manpages.
+        #
+        # Bold in nroff usually represents literal text, where there's no
+        # distinction between hyphens and minus sign.  The convention in nroff
+        # appears to be to use a minus sign in such cases, so we follow that
+        # convention.
+        #
+        # Finally, we always output - as a minus sign when it is followed by a
+        # digit.
+        if c.startswith('-'):
+            if c == '--' and font == r'\fR':
+                return r'\-'
+            if c != '-' or font in (r'\fB', r'\fL'):
+                return c.replace('-', r'\-')
+            else:
+                return '-'
+
+        if c == '\\':
+            return r'\e'
+        elif c == '"':
+            return r'\(dq'
+        elif c == "'":
+            return r'\(cq'
+        elif c == ".":
+            # groff(7) says that . can be escaped by \. but in practice groff
+            # still gives an error with \. at the beginning of a line.
+            return font + "."
+        else:
+            raise error.Error("bad escape")
+
+    # Escape - \ " ' . as needed by nroff.
+    s = re.sub('(-[0-9]|--|[-"\'\\\\.])', escape, s)
+    return s
+
+def escapeNroffLiteral(s, font=r'\fB'):
+    return font + r'%s\fR' % textToNroff(s, font)
+
+def inlineXmlToNroff(node, font, to_upper=False):
+    if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
+        if to_upper:
+            return textToNroff(node.data.upper(), font)
+        else:
+            return textToNroff(node.data, font)
+    elif node.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE:
+        if node.tagName in ['code', 'em', 'option']:
+            s = r'\fB'
+            for child in node.childNodes:
+                s += inlineXmlToNroff(child, r'\fB')
+            return s + font
+        elif node.tagName == 'ref':
+            s = r'\fB'
+            if node.hasAttribute('column'):
+                s += node.attributes['column'].nodeValue
+                if node.hasAttribute('key'):
+                    s += ':' + node.attributes['key'].nodeValue
+            elif node.hasAttribute('table'):
+                s += node.attributes['table'].nodeValue
+            elif node.hasAttribute('group'):
+                s += node.attributes['group'].nodeValue
+            elif node.hasAttribute('db'):
+                s += node.attributes['db'].nodeValue
+            else:
+                raise error.Error("'ref' lacks required attributes: %s" % node.attributes.keys())
+            return s + font
+        elif node.tagName == 'var' or node.tagName == 'dfn':
+            s = r'\fI'
+            for child in node.childNodes:
+                s += inlineXmlToNroff(child, r'\fI')
+            return s + font
+        else:
+            raise error.Error("element <%s> unknown or invalid here" % node.tagName)
+    else:
+        raise error.Error("unknown node %s in inline xml" % node)
+
+def pre_to_nroff(nodes, para, font):
+    s = para + '\n.nf\n'
+    for node in nodes:
+        if node.nodeType != node.TEXT_NODE:
+            fatal("<pre> element may only have text children")
+        for line in node.data.split('\n'):
+            s += escapeNroffLiteral(line, font) + '\n.br\n'
+    s += '.fi\n'
+    return s
+
+def blockXmlToNroff(nodes, para='.PP'):
+    s = ''
+    for node in nodes:
+        if node.nodeType == node.TEXT_NODE:
+            s += textToNroff(node.data)
+            s = s.lstrip()
+        elif node.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE:
+            if node.tagName in ['ul', 'ol']:
+                if s != "":
+                    s += "\n"
+                s += ".RS\n"
+                i = 0
+                for liNode in node.childNodes:
+                    if (liNode.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE
+                        and liNode.tagName == 'li'):
+                        i += 1
+                        if node.tagName == 'ul':
+                            s += ".IP \\(bu\n"
+                        else:
+                            s += ".IP %d. .25in\n" % i
+                        s += blockXmlToNroff(liNode.childNodes, ".IP")
+                    elif (liNode.nodeType != node.TEXT_NODE
+                          or not liNode.data.isspace()):
+                        raise error.Error("<%s> element may only have <li> children" % node.tagName)
+                s += ".RE\n"
+            elif node.tagName == 'dl':
+                if s != "":
+                    s += "\n"
+                s += ".RS\n"
+                prev = "dd"
+                for liNode in node.childNodes:
+                    if (liNode.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE
+                        and liNode.tagName == 'dt'):
+                        if prev == 'dd':
+                            s += '.TP\n'
+                        else:
+                            s += '.TQ .5in\n'
+                        prev = 'dt'
+                    elif (liNode.nodeType == node.ELEMENT_NODE
+                          and liNode.tagName == 'dd'):
+                        if prev == 'dd':
+                            s += '.IP\n'
+                        prev = 'dd'
+                    elif (liNode.nodeType != node.TEXT_NODE
+                          or not liNode.data.isspace()):
+                        raise error.Error("<dl> element may only have <dt> and <dd> children")
+                    s += blockXmlToNroff(liNode.childNodes, ".IP")
+                s += ".RE\n"
+            elif node.tagName == 'p':
+                if s != "":
+                    if not s.endswith("\n"):
+                        s += "\n"
+                    s += para + "\n"
+                s += blockXmlToNroff(node.childNodes, para)
+            elif node.tagName in ('h1', 'h2', 'h3'):
+                if s != "":
+                    if not s.endswith("\n"):
+                        s += "\n"
+                nroffTag = {'h1': 'SH', 'h2': 'SS', 'h3': 'ST'}[node.tagName]
+                s += '.%s "' % nroffTag
+                for child_node in node.childNodes:
+                    s += inlineXmlToNroff(child_node, r'\fR',
+                                          to_upper=(nroffTag == 'SH'))
+                s += '"\n'
+            elif node.tagName == 'pre':
+                fixed = node.getAttribute('fixed')
+                if fixed == 'yes':
+                    font = r'\fL'
+                else:
+                    font = r'\fB'
+                s += pre_to_nroff(node.childNodes, para, font)
+            else:
+                s += inlineXmlToNroff(node, r'\fR')
+        else:
+            raise error.Error("unknown node %s in block xml" % node)
+    if s != "" and not s.endswith('\n'):
+        s += '\n'
+    return s
-- 
1.7.10.4




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