Rustdoc fixes for associated items
This is related to isssue #22442 and solves it partly.
This solves the search index links of associated types and constants,
so that they link to the trait page.
Also add an Associated Constants section if constants are present.
I've found that there are still huge amounts of occurrences of `task`s in the documentation. This PR tries to eliminate all of them in favor of `thread`.
This syntax was removed in b24a3b8 but references remained in the
grammar, the reference, rustdoc generation, and some auxiliary test
files that don't seem to have been used since 812637e.
An automated script was run against the `.rs` and `.md` files,
subsituting every occurrence of `task` with `thread`. In the `.rs`
files, only the texts in the comment blocks were affected.
My change in #24797 had a bug, described in that issue’s comments, and first discovered in issue #24918. This fixes it.
I tested this new `main.js` by changing the `main.js` content of [a rendered docs page](https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/) to this new content. The ‘[−]’ button worked again.
I am also including another related fix, because it would require manual merging if I made a separate pull request for it. The page-global ‘[−]’ button currently adds `#` to the end of the URL whenever it is clicked. I am changing its `href` from `#` to `javascript:void(0)` (the same as the `href` for section-specific ‘[−]’ links) to fix that.
To separate concerns, instead of checking the state of `#toggle-all-docs` by looking at its label text, I add or remove a class `will-expand` depending on whether the button’s next click will expand everything. (The `if` statement’s two branches were swapped as part of this change.)
I moved the desired text values to a function `labelForToggleButton`, so changing the values will be easier. I also note in a comment the other file where the text is duplicated.
To allow the labels of both types of toggle buttons to be uniformly set, I added a `span.inner` to the global button too.
I split the template in `render.rs` into multiple lines to make room for the `span`, and that adds whitespace around the `[` and `]` text elements. That seems to be okay, though – the page still looks the same.
I updated the CSS styling for `.collapse-toggle > .inner` to add a little extra space around the symbol, to make minus signs easier to identify. (`#toggle-all-docs > .inner` does not need the same style, since its text size is bigger, so it naturally puts more space around the symbol.)
Error was noted at 60643081 (L371)
I didn’t just put the content of the node on another line, because that would add spaces around the element content, messing up the JavaScript that checks what the content is.
So that when you click the link, the URL doesn’t get # appended to it.
The non-page-global docs toggle link, which is created in `main.js`, already uses this `href` value.
Closes#17841.
The majority of the work should be done, e.g. trait and inherent impls, different forms of UFCS syntax, defaults, and cross-crate usage. It's probably enough to replace the constants in `f32`, `i8`, and so on, or close to good enough.
There is still some significant functionality missing from this commit:
- ~~Associated consts can't be used in match patterns at all. This is simply because I haven't updated the relevant bits in the parser or `resolve`, but it's *probably* not hard to get working.~~
- Since you can't select an impl for trait-associated consts until partway through type-checking, there are some problems with code that assumes that you can check constants earlier. Associated consts that are not in inherent impls cause ICEs if you try to use them in array sizes or match ranges. For similar reasons, `check_static_recursion` doesn't check them properly, so the stack goes ka-blooey if you use an associated constant that's recursively defined. That's a bit trickier to solve; I'm not entirely sure what the best approach is yet.
- Dealing with consts associated with type parameters will raise some new issues (e.g. if you have a `T: Int` type parameter and want to use `<T>::ZERO`). See rust-lang/rfcs#865.
- ~~Unused associated consts don't seem to trigger the `dead_code` lint when they should. Probably easy to fix.~~
Also, this is the first time I've been spelunking in rustc to such a large extent, so I've probably done some silly things in a couple of places.
So that if people accidentally delete the character, they won’t re-type it as a hyphen, which would cause bugs.
I changed ‘+’ too, even though it won’t be re-typed incorrectly, so that it is easier to see when plus is used as a symbol for the button, and when it is used as an operator in code. It also makes it clearer that the use of an entity for minus is on purpose, so people won’t be tempted to replace the entity incorrectly with a hyphen character.
Whenever a type implements Deref, rustdoc will now add a section to the "methods
available" sections for "Methods from Deref<Target=Foo>", listing all the
inherent methods of the type `Foo`.
Closes#19190
This commit is an overhaul to how rustdoc deals with stability of the standard
library. The handling has all been revisited with respect to Rust's current
approach to stability in terms of implementation as well as the state of the
standard library today. The high level changes made were:
* Stable items now have no marker by default
* Color-based small stability markers have been removed
* Module listings now fade out unstable/deprecated items slightly
* Trait methods have a separate background color based on stability and also
list the reason that they are unstable.
* `impl` blocks with stability no longer render at all. This may be re-added
once the compiler recognizes stability on `impl` blocks.
* `impl` blocks no longer have stability of the methods implemente indicated
* The stability summary has been removed
Closes#15468Closes#21674Closes#24201
The set of types which can have an inherent impl changed slightly and rustdoc
just needed to catch up to understand what it means to see a `impl str`!
Closes#23511
All methods listed in "Trait Implementations" now hyperlink to the source trait
instead of themselves, allowing easy browsing of the documentation of a trait
method.
Closes#17476
This ensures that all external traits are run through the same filters that the
rest of the AST goes through, stripping hidden function as necessary.
Closes#13698
This isn't really possible to test in an automatic way, since the only traits
you can negative impl are `Send` and `Sync`, and the implementors page for
those only exists in libstd.
Closes#21310
This isn't really possible to test in an automatic way, since the only traits
you can negative impl are `Send` and `Sync`, and the implementors page for
those only exists in libstd.
Closes#21310
Previously, impls for `[T; n]` were collected in the same place as impls for `[T]` and `&[T]`. This splits them out into their own primitive page in both core and std.
This is a [breaking-change]. When indexing a generic map (hashmap, etc) using the `[]` operator, it is now necessary to borrow explicitly, so change `map[key]` to `map[&key]` (consistent with the `get` routine). However, indexing of string-valued maps with constant strings can now be written `map["abc"]`.
r? @japaric
cc @aturon @Gankro
This commit:
* Introduces `std::convert`, providing an implementation of
RFC 529.
* Deprecates the `AsPath`, `AsOsStr`, and `IntoBytes` traits, all
in favor of the corresponding generic conversion traits.
Consequently, various IO APIs now take `AsRef<Path>` rather than
`AsPath`, and so on. Since the types provided by `std` implement both
traits, this should cause relatively little breakage.
* Deprecates many `from_foo` constructors in favor of `from`.
* Changes `PathBuf::new` to take no argument (creating an empty buffer,
as per convention). The previous behavior is now available as
`PathBuf::from`.
* De-stabilizes `IntoCow`. It's not clear whether we need this separate trait.
Closes#22751Closes#14433
[breaking-change]
Impls on `clean::Type::FixedVector` are now collected in the array
primitive page instead of the slice primitive page.
Also add a primitive docs for arrays to `std`.
* rustdoc was doubly appending the file name to the path of where to
generate the source files, meanwhile, the [src] hyperlinks were not
* Added a flag to rustdoc::html::render::clean_srcpath to ignore the
last path component, i.e. the file name itself to prevent the issue
* This also avoids creating directories with the same name as source
files, and it makes sure the link to `main.css` is correct as well.
* Added regression tests to ensure the rustdoc heirarchy of rendered
source files remains consistent
Fixes#23192
Previously it would fail on a trivial case like
/// Summary line
/// <trailing space>
/// Regular content
Compliant markdown preprocessor would render that as two separate paragraphs, but our summary line
extractor interprets both lines as the same paragraph and includes both into the short summary resulting in

This adds search by type (for functions/methods) support to Rustdoc. Target issue is at https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/658.
I've described my approach here: https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/658#issuecomment-76484200. I'll copy the text in here as well:
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Hi, it took me longer than I wished, but I have implemented this in a not-too-complex way that I think can be extended to support more complex features (like the ones mentioned [here](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/12866#issuecomment-66945317)).
The idea is to generate a JSON representation of the types of methods/functions in the existing index, and then make the JS understand when it should look by type (and not by name).
I tried to come up with a JSON representation that can be extended to support generics, bounds, ref/mut annotations and so on. Here are a few samples:
Function:
```rust
fn to_uppercase(c: char) -> char
```
```json
{
"inputs": [
{"name": "char"}
],
"output": {
"name": "char",
}
}
```
Method (implemented or defined in trait):
```rust
// in struct Vec
// self is considered an argument as well
fn capacity(&self) -> usize
```
```json
{
"inputs": [
{"name": "vec"}
],
"output": {
"name": "usize"
}
}
```
This simple format can be extended by adding more fields, like `generic: bool`, a `bounds` mapping and so on.
I have a working implementation in https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/compare/master...mihneadb:rustdoc-search-by-type. You can check out a live demo [here](http://data.mihneadb.net/doc/std/index.html?search=charext%20-%3E%20char).

The feature list is not that long:
- search by types (you *can* use generics as well, as long as you use the exact name - e.g. [`vec,t -> `](http://data.mihneadb.net/doc/std/index.html?search=vec%2C%20t%20-%3E))
- order of arguments does not matter
- `self` is took into account as well (e.g. search for `vec -> usize`)
- does not use "complex" annotations (e.g. you don't search for `&char -> char` but for `char -> char`)
My goal is to get a working, minimal "base" merged so that others can build upon it. How should I proceed? Do I open a PR (badly in need of code review since this is my first non "hello world"-ish rust code)?
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