Fix bug in the handling of types inside consolidated fields

README.rst

@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ This is the last major release to support Python 3.7.
 * `ExtRegistrar.register_post_processor()` now supports a `priority` argument that is an int.
   Highest priority callables will be called first during post-processing.
 * Fix too noisy ``--verbose`` mode (suppres some ambiguous annotations warnings).
+* Fix type processing inside restructuredtext consolidated fields.
 
 pydoctor 23.9.1
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

pydoctor/epydoc/markup/_types.py

@@ -57,42 +57,30 @@
         return self._convert_type_spec_to_stan(docstring_linker)
 
     def _tokenize_node_type_spec(self, spec: nodes.document) -> List[Union[str, nodes.Node]]:
+        def _warn_not_supported(n:nodes.Node) -> None:
+            self.warnings.append(f"Unexpected element in type specification field: element '{n.__class__.__name__}'. "
+                                    "This value should only contain text or inline markup.")
+
+        tokens: List[Union[str, nodes.Node]] = []
+        # Determine if the content is nested inside a paragraph
+        # this is generally the case, expect for consolidated fields generate documents.
+        if spec.children and isinstance(spec.children[0], nodes.paragraph):
+            if len(spec.children)>1:
+                _warn_not_supported(spec.children[1])
+            children = spec.children[0].children
+        else:
+            children = spec.children
 
-        class Tokenizer(nodes.GenericNodeVisitor):
-
-            def __init__(self, document: nodes.document) -> None:
-                super().__init__(document)
-                self.tokens: List[Union[str, nodes.Node]] = []
-                self.rest = nodes.document
-                self.warnings: List[str] = []
-
-            def default_visit(self, node: nodes.Node) -> None:
-                # Tokenize only the first level text in paragraph only,
-                # Simply warn and ignore the rest.
-
-                parent = node.parent
-                super_parent = parent.parent if parent else None
-
-                # first level
-                if isinstance(parent, nodes.document) and not isinstance(node, nodes.paragraph):
-                    self.warnings.append(f"Unexpected element in type specification field: element '{node.__class__.__name__}'. "
-                                          "This value should only contain regular paragraphs with text or inline markup.")
-                    raise nodes.SkipNode()
-
-                # second level
-                if isinstance(super_parent, nodes.document):
-                    # only text in paragraph nodes are taken into account
-                    if isinstance(node, nodes.Text):
-                        # Tokenize the Text node with the same method TypeDocstring uses.
-                        self.tokens.extend(TypeDocstring._tokenize_type_spec(node.astext()))
-                    else:
-                        self.tokens.append(node)
-                        raise nodes.SkipNode()
-
-        tokenizer = Tokenizer(spec)
-        spec.walk(tokenizer)
-        self.warnings.extend(tokenizer.warnings)
-        return tokenizer.tokens
+        for child in children:
+            if isinstance(child, nodes.Text):
+                # Tokenize the Text node with the same method TypeDocstring uses.
+                tokens.extend(TypeDocstring._tokenize_type_spec(child.astext()))
+            elif isinstance(child, nodes.Inline):
+                tokens.append(child)
+            else:
+                _warn_not_supported(child)
+
+        return tokens
 
     def _convert_obj_tokens_to_stan(self, tokens: List[Tuple[Union[str, nodes.Node], TokenType]], 
                                     docstring_linker: DocstringLinker) -> List[Tuple[Union[str, Tag, nodes.Node], TokenType]]:

pydoctor/test/test_type_fields.py

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 from textwrap import dedent
 from pydoctor.epydoc.markup import ParseError, get_parser_by_name
 from pydoctor.test.epydoc.test_restructuredtext import prettify
+from pydoctor.test.test_templatewriter import getHTMLOfAttribute
 from pydoctor.test import NotFoundLinker, CapSys
 from pydoctor.test.epydoc import parse_docstring
 from pydoctor.test.test_epydoc2stan import docstring2html
@@ -364,10 +365,15 @@ def foo(**args):
                 - "numpy"
                 - "google"
             h: things
+            k: stuff
 
         :type h: stuff
 
             >>> python
+
+        :type k: a paragraph
+
+            another one
         """
     '''
 
@@ -387,4 +393,34 @@ def foo(**args):
 warns:13: bad docstring: invalid value set (missing opening brace): 3}
 warns:15: bad docstring: malformed string literal (missing closing quote): '2
 warns:17: bad docstring: malformed string literal (missing opening quote): 2"
-warns:23: bad docstring: Unexpected element in type specification field: element 'doctest_block'. This value should only contain regular paragraphs with text or inline markup.'''
+warns:24: bad docstring: Unexpected element in type specification field: element 'doctest_block'. This value should only contain text or inline markup.
+warns:28: bad docstring: Unexpected element in type specification field: element 'paragraph'. This value should only contain text or inline markup.'''
+
+def test_process_types_with_consolidated_fields(capsys: CapSys) -> None:
+    """
+    Test for issue https://github.com/twisted/pydoctor/issues/765
+    """
+    src = '''
+    class V:
+        """
+        Doc. 
+
+        :CVariables:
+            `id` : int
+                Classvar doc.
+        """
+    '''
+    system = model.System()
+
+    system.options.processtypes = True
+    system.options.docformat = 'restructuredtext'
+
+    mod = fromText(src, modname='do_not_warn_please', system=system)
+    attr = mod.contents['V'].contents['id']
+    assert isinstance(attr, model.Attribute)
+    html = getHTMLOfAttribute(attr)
+    # Filter docstring linker warnings
+    lines = [line for line in capsys.readouterr().out.splitlines() if 'Cannot find link target' not in line]
+    assert not lines
+    assert '<code>int</code>' in html
+