Docs

The documentation for odin-data uses sphinx and MyST for written documentation along with doxygen and breathe to generate reference API docs and integrate them into the docs.

Building Docs

To generate the API reference docs using doxygen (requires dot for UML diagrams):

$ docs/doxygen.sh

To build and view the documentation:

$ python -m venv venv
$ source venv/bin/activate
(venv) $ pip install ./python[dev]
(venv) $ sphinx-build -b html docs docs/build/html

This will build the docs into docs/build/html. They can be viewed by opening index.html in a web browser. When editing the docs it is useful to get a live preview. In this case, use sphinx-autobuild:

(venv) $ sphinx-autobuild docs docs/build/html/
...
The HTML pages are in docs/_build/html.
[sphinx-autobuild] Serving on http://127.0.0.1:8000

This will build the docs and host them on local web server to view them live in a web browser. You can edit the files and your browser will automatically reload with the live changes.

Writing Docs

The source files are organised under docs/ in the same structure they appear in the toctree, which is defined in docs/sphinx.yaml. To add content to an existing page, simply navigate to the markdown file for the page and edit it. To add a new page, create a markdown file in the appropriate place in the hierarchy and then add it to sphinx.yaml.