I'm trying to do something similar. Did you figure this out?  I am still 
looking for what I need to call to parse the roles/directives in a 
docstring.

On Tuesday, May 7, 2013 12:07:56 AM UTC-6, Stefan Urbanek wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to create a custom autodoc-like extension, that would parse 
> directive like:
>
> .. operation:: name(args)
>
>     Some documentation here...
>
>
> With output similar to a function documentation generated by ".. 
> autofunction". The output is going to be a signature, the documentation 
> from the directive and multiple other documentation chunks that are 
> extracted from __doc__ strings from other objects. The objects will be 
> fetched from some other catalogue object based on the signature. There 
> might be none, one, two or more objects per operation.
>
> Example:
>
> INPUT 1: doc.rst
>
> .. operation:: duplicates
>
> INPUT 2: - some.py with list of operation objects for key "duplicates", 
> for this we have two objects with names "rows" and "sql"
>
> OUTPUT:
>
> duplicates(obj)
>
>     Finds duplicate records in the object.
>
> Signatures:
>
>     rows
>         returns an iterator object yielding duplicate records. Consumes 
> the source.
>     sql
>         composes another SQL statement
>
> END OF OUTPUT
>
> The `Signatures` part is generated list where content of each item might 
> contain a documentation from __doc__ attribute of given objects in RST 
> format.
>
> I assume there will be nodes:
>
> BASIC_SIGNATURE
> DIRECTIVE_DOC
> CUSTOM_LABEL
> LABEL_SIG_1
> DOC_SIG_1
> LABEL_SIG_2
> DOC_SIG_2
> ...
>
> How can I do this? I know how to create an OperationDirective(Directive) 
> object that emits some nodes in run(). However I do not know how to:
>
> * parse and append content of the directive
> * parse and append any other content
> * create an index reference
> * create a list of operations that will link to the operation documentation
>
> I've tried to follow the tutorial on the sphinx documentation, but it was 
> not sufficient for me.
>
> Where I can find more information?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Stefan
>

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