Generate unified Python/C++ docs #1324

vyasr · 2023-08-10T00:54:19Z

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This PR leverages Breathe to pull the rmm C++ API documentation into the python Sphinx docs build, generating a single unified build of the documentation that supports cross-linking between language libraries and also simplifies cross-linking from other libraries that wish to link here (such as higher-level RAPIDS libraries that use both rmm's Python and C++ APIs).

Using Breathe requires changing the doxygen build to generate XML in addition to the usual HTML. It turns out that doxygen catches more doc issues (of the types fixed in #1317) when more build outputs are turned on, which is indicative of some bugs/limitations in doxygen, but nonetheless I've fixed the additional issues in this PR as well.

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harrism · 2023-08-15T23:25:12Z

include/rmm/mr/device/failure_callback_resource_adaptor.hpp

@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ using failure_callback_t = std::function<bool(std::size_t, void*)>;
 * When implementing a callback function for allocation retry, care must be taken to avoid an
 * infinite loop. The following example makes sure to only retry the allocation once:
 *
- * @code{c++}
+ * @code{.cpp}


Does it work to just leave off the {.cpp}? By default, Doxygen uses the language of the file the @code is found in. Will that work for the unified case?

Unfortunately doxygen-generated XML does not correctly identify hpp files as C++ files. It does work for cpp files, but since rmm's files are all headers I needed to specify this. I do wonder if updating to a newer version of doxygen would improve the situation, and I may test that. I think #1317 needs merging before an y PR to update doxygen, so if the test is promising I'll sequence that work appropriately.

Try modifying the Doxyfile EXTENSION_MAPPING setting?

EXTENSION_MAPPING = cu=C++ \ cuh=C++ \ hpp=C++

That doesn't seem to work, but I'm not sure why. Oddly, specifying @code{.hpp} works (whether or not hpp is added to the EXTENSION_MAPPING), but the default inference of just @code doesn't.

python/docs/Makefile

harrism

This is a start, but I think this PR is mostly tackling the mechanics of getting RMM Python and C++ APIs unified.

I think the main thing to review here is the generated docs. The RMM C++ API reference is here (requires NVIDIA VPN):
https://downloads.rapids.ai/ci/rmm/pull-request/1324/61abbbc/docs/rmm/html/librmm_api/

I find that very hard to scroll through and read, and there's no table of contents or other useful organization / navigation. It's a wall of (somewhat tiny) text, with very little formatting, font sizes, or HRs to break it up. Also, the order is weird. Ideally this would be broken up conceptually into separate pages about Memory Resources, Containers, Execution Policies, and other concepts. Can we do that with doxygen groups and pages?

Also, there is no differentiation in the TOC to the left between the Python and C++ API References. They both are named "API Reference" (same in the main page here: https://downloads.rapids.ai/ci/rmm/pull-request/1324/61abbbc/docs/rmm/html/)

Also, the page "https://downloads.rapids.ai/ci/rmm/pull-request/1324/61abbbc/docs/rmm/html/basics/" is only about Python, but gets prominent placement as the very first thing. If we are going to unify docs, I think we should give C++ and Python equal footing, like we do in the RMM README.md (which is pretty comprehensive).

I definitely like the idea of integrating the docs, but I think it needs quite a bit of thought and work (and I'm happy to help more).

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include/rmm/mr/device/logging_resource_adaptor.hpp

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python/docs/librmm_api.rst

vyasr · 2023-09-21T17:13:34Z

@harrism you beat me to the punch, time zones are tricky 😄 I had intended to start exactly that conversation during the US workday today. I've kicked that off on Slack, where we can discuss some of these ideas more before coming to any final conclusions here. I completely agree that the current layout is insufficient and we need to do more work.

vyasr · 2023-09-25T16:58:12Z

I've split out the doxygen fixes uncovered by enabling XML builds into #1348. I'll make a separate PR adding doxygen groups. Once both of those are merged we can revisit this PR using those groupings.

doxygen catches more doc issues (of the types fixed in #1317) when more build outputs are turned on, which is indicative of some bugs/limitations in doxygen. XML builds will be necessary to leverage Breathe (see #1324) so this PR enables XML builds and fixes the associated issues. Authors: - Vyas Ramasubramani (https://github.com/vyasr) Approvers: - Rong Ou (https://github.com/rongou) URL: #1348

This PR adds doxygen groups for the various parts of the C++ API to help provide more context. This will also help with improving the docs experience in #1324. Authors: - Vyas Ramasubramani (https://github.com/vyasr) Approvers: - Mark Harris (https://github.com/harrism) URL: #1358

vyasr · 2023-10-27T23:23:10Z

In the following image you can see "Detailed Description" at the bottom of the page with nothing after it. Every page seems to have this. Can we suppress it?

(This should probably be for a follow up PR) I would like each of the groups to have some summary text at the top of the page explaining what the group contains with definitions and usage overview

All of libcudf's docs have the same issue. I just opened rapidsai/cudf#14341 to remove the extra section. However, that's the section where you would include the summary text that you want I think. So it sounds like what you'd prefer is to instead create a DoxygenLayout file in rmm and move the detailed description for the group to the top of the page. Those are our options, either we remove that section or we fill it in for each group. WDYT? Also feel free to comment on the cudf PR since I assume we'll want similar solutions for both repos.

This image shows the modules are sorted alphabetically. I think they should be sorted by "importance", or by logical order of introducing concepts. E.g. I think Memory Resources and Data Containers should be first, since that's what people will use most.

We control the order, I just alphabetized by default. Please propose an ordering! I'm happy to go with what you think makes sense.

Also you can see namespace rmm making an appearance on this page without explanation. This seems out of place.

That's coming from this line. I included that because everywhere in the docs where there is anything within the rmm namespace Sphinx tries to create a link, so without this Sphinx throws warnings about missing references. We have three options here:

Leave this empty namespace doc as is.
Find something useful to include along with this namespace doc.
Remove it and find a way to suppress a warning

I'm guessing you prefer 2 or 3, WDYT?

This image highlights one of my common issues with Python documentation sites. ...

I'd prefer to address this in a follow-up PR. The best ways to fix it would involve using an alternate theme for the documentation, but switching themes will affect more than just the C++ documentation and could involve other changes. I'd prefer to merge this PR largely as is since it makes the Sphinx C++ documentation no worse than the existing Sphinx Python documentation, then come back to improving the overall formatting in a follow-up PR that affects the entire Sphinx docs. In all likelihood this will involve something like https://github.com/rapidsai/sphinx-theme/.

There seems to be something wrong with this logging page. This must be the documentation for a function?

This was caused by the same issue you noticed in the doxygen docs, a mistake in the doxygen. I've fixed that now.

The search page is empty...

In Sphinx the Search page is empty until you actually perform a search for something

Clicking on "Module Index" under "librmm documentation" (which should be C++) takes me to the "Python Module Index" page, which probably doesn't need to be grouped by letter of the alphabet since it only has one letter. :)

Turns out the module index is specifically designed for Python, so I'll just remove that here. That's an autogenerated page, so not sure how much control we have over it, but if we can modify it I'd say that's a task for a follow-up PR since it's not specific to the unification here.

If I navigate to "Index" under "Indices and Tables", it collapses the TOC on the left so I can't see where I am. In general the TOC doesn't seem to have as many levels as it should, so I can't always tell where I am.

I agree that we should improve this, but I see similar issues even at the very top level of the documentation so I don't think it's something we should address in this PR. Let's do that in a follow-up to improve the docs overall.

harrism

Here's what I suggest for the ordering.

python/docs/librmm_docs/index.rst

harrism · 2023-10-31T00:10:18Z

group to the top of the page. Those are our options, either we remove that section or we fill it in for each group. WDYT?

I think we should fill it in for each group and move it under the title for the page. We can do that in a followup.

We control the order, I just alphabetized by default. Please propose an ordering! I'm happy to go with what you think makes sense.

Done.

We have three options here:

1. Leave this empty namespace doc as is.

2. Find something useful to include along with this namespace doc.

3. Remove it and find a way to suppress a warning

I think (2). I always err on the side of more documentation. :)

Turns out the module index is specifically designed for Python, so I'll just remove that here.

Yes please.

Co-authored-by: Mark Harris <[email protected]>

vyasr · 2023-10-31T17:14:46Z

I think (2). I always err on the side of more documentation. :)

Since that's focusing on content, let's do that in a follow-up PR where we also add documentation for the groups.

harrism · 2023-10-31T20:49:02Z

I think (2). I always err on the side of more documentation. :)

Since that's focusing on content, let's do that in a follow-up PR where we also add documentation for the groups.

Agree with all the followups, but can you file an issue with a checklist to capture them all? (can convert the checklist items to individual issues if needed).

vyasr · 2023-10-31T21:10:24Z

Yup, opened #1368.

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bdice

I have a few related comments on organization. This is such a dramatic improvement that I'm approving and want to ship it. I would support doing all further work in separate PRs.

bdice · 2023-11-01T22:22:47Z

python/docs/cpp.rst

+Welcome to the rmm C++ documentation!
+========================================


This shows up in the navigation bar (they call these "breadcrumbs").

I would prefer to do something like:

Suggested change

Welcome to the rmm C++ documentation!

========================================

rmm C++

=======

I agree -- never liked the "Welcome to" prefix on practically every Python package's docs.

bdice · 2023-11-01T22:24:10Z

python/docs/librmm_docs/index.rst

+librmm Documentation
+====================


This heading makes the breadcrumbs deeply nested. The navigation is awkward as a result.

Can we eliminate this level of the hierarchy entirely, so that it's something more like Home / rmm C++ / API Reference / Memory Resources? See if you can fuse this page's toctree into python/docs/cpp.rst instead.

bdice · 2023-11-01T22:26:40Z

python/docs/python.rst

+Welcome to the rmm Python documentation!
+========================================


As above, this makes for an awkward breadcrumb.

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Welcome to the rmm Python documentation!

========================================

rmm Python

==========

ajschmidt8

Looks good to me.

Seems like we no longer need to generate/upload separate librmm HTML docs, right?

If that's correct, then we should remove the lines below from build_docs.sh:

https://github.com/vyasr/rmm/blob/9e81c7303816ef53419e8754e9dc5416044eea56/ci/build_docs.sh#L34-L35

Additionally, we'll want to set nightly: 0 in the file below on our documentation site:

https://github.com/rapidsai/docs/blob/4bbb6af839079b4ae0b16a162951ef67445b156e/_data/docs.yml#L219-L229

vyasr · 2023-11-02T22:31:13Z

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