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authorPaul Vinciguerra <pvinci@vinciconsulting.com>2020-03-24 16:37:40 -0400
committerDave Wallace <dwallacelf@gmail.com>2020-12-21 23:23:13 +0000
commit630ca994e0ff210a3de80d73bb395c931d2fd83f (patch)
tree595df13a399512674ff7ea2a19ea4e442f610151 /docs
parentdfd1caf24e94fc825edea6f669a4b1fbd687ed44 (diff)
docs: update list of plugins
The list of plugins is outdated. This change introduces a dynamically generated list of the plugins along with their descriptions, extracted directly from the sources. Type: docs Change-Id: Icb7b65e6b45289e257d71a1c18d10f62ced59cbe Signed-off-by: Paul Vinciguerra <pvinci@vinciconsulting.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'docs')
-rw-r--r--docs/Makefile2
-rw-r--r--docs/dynamic_includes/.gitkeep0
-rw-r--r--docs/gettingstarted/installing/packages.rst14
-rw-r--r--docs/includes_renderer.py77
4 files changed, 80 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 6c5960d18c4..49938640a34 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ help:
# Catch-all target: route all unknown targets to Sphinx using the new
# "make mode" option. $(O) is meant as a shortcut for $(SPHINXOPTS).
%: Makefile
+# Generate dynamic content
+ @python3 ./includes_renderer.py
@$(SPHINXBUILD) -M $@ "$(SOURCEDIR)" "$(BUILDDIR)" $(SPHINXOPTS) $(O)
spell:
diff --git a/docs/dynamic_includes/.gitkeep b/docs/dynamic_includes/.gitkeep
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e69de29bb2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/dynamic_includes/.gitkeep
diff --git a/docs/gettingstarted/installing/packages.rst b/docs/gettingstarted/installing/packages.rst
index 719fffb67f8..6c4fae18ee3 100644
--- a/docs/gettingstarted/installing/packages.rst
+++ b/docs/gettingstarted/installing/packages.rst
@@ -35,19 +35,7 @@ vpp-plugins
Vector Packet Processing plugin modules.
-* acl
-* dpdk
-* flowprobe
-* gtpu
-* ixge
-* kubeproxy
-* l2e
-* lb
-* memif
-* nat
-* pppoe
-* sixrd
-* stn
+.. include:: ../../dynamic_includes/plugin_list.inc
vpp-dbg
-------
diff --git a/docs/includes_renderer.py b/docs/includes_renderer.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d36752dd882
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/includes_renderer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+# Copyright (c) 2020. Vinci Consulting Corp. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# 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 glob
+import inspect
+import os.path
+import re
+
+
+class ContentRenderer:
+ name = ""
+ curr_path = os.path.abspath(inspect.getsourcefile(lambda: 0))
+ vpp_root = curr_path.rsplit("/", 2)[0]
+ output_dir = f"{vpp_root}/docs/dynamic_includes/"
+
+ def render(self):
+ raise NotImplementedError
+
+
+class PluginRenderer(ContentRenderer):
+ name = "plugin_list.inc"
+
+ plugin_dir = f"{ContentRenderer.vpp_root}/src/plugins"
+
+ pattern = r'VLIB_PLUGIN_REGISTER\s?\(\)\s*=\s*{.*\.description\s?=\s?"([^"]*)".*};' # noqa: 501
+ regex = re.compile(pattern, re.MULTILINE | re.DOTALL)
+
+ def render(self):
+ with open(f"{self.__class__.output_dir}{self.__class__.name}",
+ "w") as output:
+ with os.scandir(self.__class__.plugin_dir) as pdir:
+ for entry in sorted(pdir, key=lambda entry: entry.name):
+ if not entry.name.startswith('.') and entry.is_dir():
+ description = "<no-description-found>"
+ # we use glob because a plugin can (ioam for now)
+ # define the plugin definition in
+ # a further subdirectory.
+ for f in glob.iglob(f'{self.__class__.plugin_dir}/'
+ f'{entry.name}/**',
+ recursive=True):
+ if f.endswith('.c'):
+ with open(f, "r", encoding="utf-8") \
+ as src:
+ for match in self.__class__.regex.finditer(
+ src.read()):
+ description = "%s" % (match.group(1))
+
+ output.write(f"* {entry.name} - {description}\n")
+
+
+# if this list grows substantially, we can move the classes to
+# a folder and import them.
+renderers = [PluginRenderer,
+ ]
+
+
+def main():
+ print("rendering dynamic includes...")
+ for renderer in renderers:
+ renderer().render()
+ print("done.")
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ main()