path: root/src/compiler/scala/tools/nsc/doc/DocFactory.scala

/* NSC -- new Scala compiler -- Copyright 2007-2010 LAMP/EPFL */

// $Id$

package scala.tools.nsc
package doc

import reporters.Reporter

/** A documentation processor controls the process of generating Scala documentation, which is as follows.
  *
  * * A simplified compiler instance (with only the front-end phases enabled) is created, and additional
  *   ''sourceless'' comments are registered.
  * * Documentable files are compiled, thereby filling the compiler's symbol table.
  * * A documentation model is extracted from the post-compilation compiler's symbol table.
  * * A generator is used to transform the model into the correct final format (HTML).
  *
  * A processor contains a single compiler instantiated from the processor's settings. Each call to the `run` method
  * uses the same compiler instance with the same symbol table. In particular, this implies that the scaladoc site
  * obtained from a call to `run` will contain documentation about files compiled during previous calls to the same
  * processor's `run` method.
  *
  * @param reporter The reporter to which both documentation and compilation errors will be reported.
  * @param settings The settings to be used by the documenter and compiler for generating documentation.
  *
  * @author Gilles Dubochet */
class DocFactory(val reporter: Reporter, val settings: doc.Settings) { processor =>

  /** The unique compiler instance used by this processor and constructed from its `settings`. */
  object compiler extends Global(settings, reporter) {
    override protected def computeInternalPhases() {
      phasesSet += syntaxAnalyzer
      phasesSet += analyzer.namerFactory
      phasesSet += analyzer.packageObjects
      phasesSet += analyzer.typerFactory
      phasesSet += superAccessors
      phasesSet += pickler
      phasesSet += refchecks
    }
    override def onlyPresentation = true
    lazy val addSourceless = {
      val sless = new SourcelessComments { val global = compiler }
      docComments ++= sless.comments
    }
  }

  /** Creates a scaladoc site for all symbols defined in this call's `files`, as well as those defined in `files` of
    * previous calls to the same processor.
    * @param files The list of paths (relative to the compiler's source path, or absolute) of files to document. */
  def document(files: List[String]): Unit = {
    (new compiler.Run()) compile files
    compiler.addSourceless
    if (!reporter.hasErrors) {
      val modelFactory = (new model.ModelFactory(compiler, settings))
      val htmlFactory = (new html.HtmlFactory(reporter, settings))
      val docModel = modelFactory.makeModel
      println("model contains " + modelFactory.templatesCount + " documentable templates")
      htmlFactory generate docModel
    }
  }

}