Issue 3618 - Add a script for generating the JSDoc documentation

generate_docs.py

+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# coding: utf-8
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
+DEPENDENCY_SCRIPT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "ensure_dependencies.py")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+  try:
+    subprocess.check_call([sys.executable, DEPENDENCY_SCRIPT, BASE_DIR])
+  except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e:
+    print >>sys.stderr, e
+    print >>sys.stderr, "Failed to ensure dependencies being up-to-date!"
+
+  # We're faking an invocation of build.py here, because we would have to
+  # duplicate command line parsing otherwise. It would be nicer if buildtools
+  # would make it possible to invoke the docs command directly.
+  args = sys.argv
+  args[1:1] = ["-t", "gecko", "docs"]
+
+  import buildtools.build
+  buildtools.build.processArgs(BASE_DIR, args)

[Wladimir Palant, 2016/02/04 22:19:54]

As hacks go, I think this one is better:

  buildtools.build.generateDocs(BASE_DIR, os.path.basename(sys.argv[0]),
      {}, ['docs'], 'gecko')

[Felix Dahlke, 2016/02/05 06:17:54]

I went with that one at first, but then we have to duplicate command line
parsing and usage - I'd rather not. But if you prefer that, fine by me too.