I'm trying to automatically document OpenLDAP code. Since I ha previous
experience with doxygen and C++, which looks pretty reliable and
versatile, I made some experiments, with less than encouraging results.
One of the key issues I'm facing is the need to handle the somewhat
quite involved use we often make of #defines. Doxygen allows
sophisticated pre-processing, with lots of flexibility, which required a
bit of carving before, for instance, getting anything out of slap.h.
Another issue is that we made some inconsistent use of typedefs for
structures. For example, many key structures are typedef'd as
typedef struct foo bar;
This is very misleading, because doxygen documents that structure as
"foo", while most of the times it's used as "bar". Maybe renaming
typedefs like
typedef struct bar bar;
would simplify things, so that the original and the typedef'd names match.
I'd rename things only in those cases the original name is never used in
practice. For example, I wouldn't touch "struct berval", since it's
used almost everywhere, while "BerValue" is seldom used. On the
contrary, I don't think "struct slap_attr_name" is ever used in the
code, while its typedef "AttributeDescription" is consistently used
everywhere. The same is true for "Connection", "Operation", "SlapReply"
and so.
If anyone is interested in doxygen docs, I'll be happy to share my
Doxyfile as soon as it's consolidated.