[Lldb-commits] [lldb] [lldb/docs] Add Scripted Symbol Locator to website documentation (PR #181594)

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Author: Med Ismail Bennani (medismailben)

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This patch adds documentation for the Scripted Symbol Locator plugin system, including tutorial (renamed to hunting-down-symbols.md to match other tutorial naming conventions) and cleans up API reference for the website.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/181594.diff


4 Files Affected:

- (modified) lldb/docs/CMakeLists.txt (+1) 
- (modified) lldb/docs/python_extensions.rst (+7) 
- (modified) lldb/docs/use/python-reference.rst (+1-1) 
- (renamed) lldb/docs/use/tutorials/hunting-down-symbols.md (+1-1) 


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diff --git a/lldb/docs/CMakeLists.txt b/lldb/docs/CMakeLists.txt
index bbecf606f1f8f..51fe9635cc4a3 100644
--- a/lldb/docs/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/lldb/docs/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ if (LLDB_ENABLE_PYTHON AND SPHINX_FOUND)
       COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy "${LLDB_SOURCE_DIR}/examples/python/templates/scripted_platform.py" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/lldb/plugins/"
       COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy "${LLDB_SOURCE_DIR}/examples/python/templates/operating_system.py" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/lldb/plugins/"
       COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy "${LLDB_SOURCE_DIR}/examples/python/templates/scripted_thread_plan.py" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/lldb/plugins/"
+      COMMAND "${CMAKE_COMMAND}" -E copy "${LLDB_SOURCE_DIR}/examples/python/templates/scripted_symbol_locator.py" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/lldb/plugins/"
       COMMENT "Copying lldb.py to pretend its a Python package.")
 
     add_dependencies(lldb-python-doc-package swig_wrapper_python)
diff --git a/lldb/docs/python_extensions.rst b/lldb/docs/python_extensions.rst
index 8420187efcdcc..f42681281b8e2 100644
--- a/lldb/docs/python_extensions.rst
+++ b/lldb/docs/python_extensions.rst
@@ -45,3 +45,10 @@ Scripted Thread Plan Plugins
     :no-heading:
     :no-inheritance-diagram:
 
+Scripted Symbol Locator Plugins
+-------------------------------
+
+.. automodapi:: lldb.plugins.scripted_symbol_locator
+    :no-heading:
+    :skip: ABCMeta, LocalCacheSymbolLocator
+    :no-inheritance-diagram:
diff --git a/lldb/docs/use/python-reference.rst b/lldb/docs/use/python-reference.rst
index 2b345a7cd3bbf..b14b2b67e6055 100644
--- a/lldb/docs/use/python-reference.rst
+++ b/lldb/docs/use/python-reference.rst
@@ -28,4 +28,4 @@ The following tutorials and documentation demonstrate various Python capabilitie
    tutorials/implementing-standalone-scripts
    tutorials/custom-frame-recognizers
    tutorials/extending-target-stop-hooks
-   tutorials/scripted-symbol-locator
+   tutorials/hunting-down-symbols
diff --git a/lldb/docs/use/tutorials/scripted-symbol-locator.md b/lldb/docs/use/tutorials/hunting-down-symbols.md
similarity index 99%
rename from lldb/docs/use/tutorials/scripted-symbol-locator.md
rename to lldb/docs/use/tutorials/hunting-down-symbols.md
index eaba91d9b444b..8ef7beb5c6284 100644
--- a/lldb/docs/use/tutorials/scripted-symbol-locator.md
+++ b/lldb/docs/use/tutorials/hunting-down-symbols.md
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Scripted Symbol Locator Tutorial
+# Hunting down symbols with Scripted Symbol Locator
 
 The **Scripted Symbol Locator** lets you write a Python class that tells LLDB
 where to find executables, symbol files, and source files for your debug

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/181594


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