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Developer Guide

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Introduction

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This describes various practices, procedures and conventions used within Helium. It should be read by all contributors to Helium along with the Coding Conventions.

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  single: Documentation

Documentation

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Standalone documents like this design document and the user guide are documented in reStructuredText__ format.

__ http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

HTML documentation is generated in ``/helium/build/doc`` using the ``hlm docs`` command.

API documentation

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The Helium API documentation is generated directly from the Ant source files. Additional documentation for Ant objects (properties, targets, macros, etc) and special markup is defined in a similar style to JavaDoc, following these conventions:

* Additional documentation is written as XML comments.

* Typically the preceeding comment for an Ant object is assumed to relate to that object. A comment can be definitively noted as a Ant documentation comment by adding a ``*`` character at the start.

  * Project comments must have the ``*`` character in order to avoid assuming that the copyright comment block is project documentation::

    <!--* comment text -->

* The text format of the documentation can be formatted in MediaWiki format.

* The first sentence of the comment is taken as the summary for short text fields. The rest of the text is the full documentation.

* Specific metadata tags are defined using ``@``. Each tag should be on a newline and all tags should be after the general documentation paragraphs::

    <!--* comment text

    @scope private

    -->

* A number of tags are supported:

.. csv-table:: Ant comment tags

   :header: "Tag", "Applies to", "Description"

   "scope", "All elements", "The scope or visibility of the element. Valid values are ``public`` (default), ``protected`` and ``private``."

   "editable", "All types", "Whether this element should be overridden or defined by the user. Valid values are ``required`` and ``optional``"

   "type", "Properties", "The type of the property value. Valid values are ``string`` (default), ``integer``, ``boolean``."

   "deprecated", "All elements", "Documents that the element is deprecated and may be removed in a future release. The text should describe what to use instead."

* Some properties (and other types) are only defined by the user, so there is no default declaration inside Helium. These can be documented completely within a comment::

    <!--* @property name.of.property

    This property must be defined by the user.

    @scope public

    @editable required

    @type integer

    -->

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Creating Index References

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In order to get things in the index you have to manually add the following code to the .rst files: ::

  .. index::

     module: file heading (the text in the 1st heading at the top of the page) gets added to index as module

put this text at the top of the file::

  .. index::

    single: heading text

put this just above a heading. This gets added to the index as a normal indexed link.

If you replace 'single' with 'pair' it puts 2 enteries in the index:::

  .. index::

     pair: iname1; ename2

In the index it becomes iname1 with ename2 below it and indented (in the 'i' section) and also ename2 with iname1 

below it and indented (in the 'e' section)

The index directive needs blank lines either side of it.

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  single: Directory Structure

Directory structure

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The ``/helium`` directory structure consists of:

``/build``

    This is not under source control. It is created on demand to store generated documentation, testing and coverage output and so on.

``/config``

    Configuration files for parts of Helium. Some of these may only need to be defined in Helium, whereas others may be default configuration that may be overridden by a user.

``/doc``

    All documentation related to Helium. Files are in .rst format (HTML versions can be generated under ``/build/doc`` using the ``hlm doc`` command).

``/external``

    Applications and libraries that are maintained outside of the Helium team.

``/tests``

    Test data for unit tests. All unit tests are co-located with the code under test.

``/tools``

    A number of subdirectories for each stage of the build. Each directory may contain Ant scripts and other tools and scripts related to that stage.

``/tools/common``

    Common libraries for Java, Perl and Python and XML schemas.

Ant script structure

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The ``helium.ant.xml`` file in the project root should be imported by each build configuration. This in turn imports the root files for each of the key build stages defined in the ``/tools`` directory. ``helium.ant.xml`` also defines a number of common Ant default properties.

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Custom Ant library

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All custom Ant tasks and loggers should be added under ``/tools/common/java/src``. The command::

  hlm-jar.bat

can be run from the ``/helium`` directory. This will update the ``nokia_ant.jar`` file in ``/tools/common/java/lib``.

Each custom task must be defined inside the ``antlib.xml`` file inside ``/tools/common/java/src/nokia/ant``.

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Assertions

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There are some basic assertion macros defined in ``common.ant.xml``. These can be used to check for correctness at the end of a target, e.g. checking that a file exists which the target was supposed to create.

The assertions can be enabled by defining the ``hlm.enable.asserts``. If ``hlm.enable.asserts`` is not enabled, macro will print warnings only.

There are several macros:

``hlm:assert``

    A basic assertion that will check any task contained within it.

``hlm:assertFileExists``

    Takes a file attribute and asserts that the file exists.

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Ivy Configuration

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Ibiblio

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Libraries in Maven2 Ibiblio_ repository can use: ``helium/config/ivy/ivy.xml``

.. _Ibiblio: http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/

These parameters should be used, if library has passed legal tests: ``transitive="false"``, ``conf="subcon"``

Otherwise use: ``transitive="false"``, ``conf="core_install"``

Direct URLs

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Use these for a direct url link, if the library is needed for the subcon release::

    helium/config/ivy/modules/jars_subcon-1.0.ivy.xml

    helium/config/ivy/modules/eggs_subcon-1.0.ivy.xml

Otherwise add to these files for non subcon libraries::

    helium/config/ivy/modules/eggs-1.0.ivy.xml

    helium/config/ivy/modules/jars-1.0.ivy.xml

A new ivy config file can be added for a non-jar or egg type file.