Opened 11 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

Last modified 10 years ago

#22812 closed Cleanup/optimization (fixed)

Reformat and restructure lookup API documentation

Reported by: jorgecarleitao Owned by: jorgecarleitao
Component: Documentation Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords:
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: yes UI/UX: no

Description

Currently the API documentation docs/ref/models/custom-lookups.txt has some formatting issues, and mixes the howto with the API references, see https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/custom-lookups/

Here I'm proposing to separate these two concepts:

  1. Adding a new howto - docs/howto/custom-lookups.txt - for custom lookups, which includes section https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/custom-lookups/#a-simple-lookup-example to section https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/custom-lookups/#how-django-determines-the-lookups-and-transforms-which-are-used with potential improvements.
  1. Renaming "custom-lookups.txt" to "lookups.txt" in ref/models to be the documentation of lookups API, with references for the public interfaces of RegisterLookupMixin, Lookup, Transform.

Optionally, because the BuiltIn lookups are part of this new API, they could be documented in 2., but this may not be possible due to backward compatibility of documentation urls (devs?)

Change History (7)

comment:1 by Daniele Procida, 11 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

If the structure of the documentation needs to change then it needs to change - we don't need to worry too much about URLs in such a case.

comment:2 by Daniele Procida, 11 years ago

Easy pickings: set

comment:3 by jorgecarleitao, 11 years ago

Has patch: set

Pull request here: https://github.com/django/django/pull/2807

At some point we need to discuss what more can be merged on ref/models/lookups. E.g. could make sense to add the builtin lookups there.

comment:4 by Tim Graham, 11 years ago

Patch needs improvement: set

I think it would be better not to move the built-in lookups for the reason you mentioned.

comment:5 by jorgecarleitao, 10 years ago

Patch needs improvement: unset

comment:6 by Tim Graham <timograham@…>, 10 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

In 8780849da06f866720284d2c61d0aae5890e92ae:

Fixed #22812 -- Refactored lookup API documentation.

Thanks Anssi and Tim for reviews.

comment:7 by Tim Graham <timograham@…>, 10 years ago

In e548328851ee1e0d030ad3625c5e8a5315a12ed4:

[1.7.x] Fixed #22812 -- Refactored lookup API documentation.

Thanks Anssi and Tim for reviews.

Backport of 8780849da0 from master

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