Merge branch 'docs/gen_documentation' into 'dev'

docs: added auto-generation of documentation

See merge request ics/sp/2025/n25b/pepperplus-ri!10

.gitignore

@@ -217,3 +217,6 @@ __marimo__/
 
 .DS_Store
 
+# Docs
+docs/*
+!docs/conf.py

README.md

@@ -146,3 +146,30 @@ If your commit fails its either:
 branch name != <type>/description-of-branch , 
 commit name !=  <type>: description of the commit.
                 <ref>: N25B-Num's
+
+## Documentation
+Generate documentation web pages using:
+
+### Linux & macOS
+```bash
+PYTHONPATH=src sphinx-apidoc -F -o docs src/robot_interface
+```
+
+### Windows
+```bash
+$env:PYTHONPATH="src"; sphinx-apidoc -F -o docs src/control_backend
+```
+
+Optionally, in the `conf.py` file in the new `docs` folder, change preferences. 
+
+In the `docs` folder:
+
+### Linux & macOS
+```bash
+make html
+```
+
+### Windows
+```bash
+.\make.bat html
+```

docs/conf.py

@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
+#
+# This file does only contain a selection of the most common options. For a
+# full list see the documentation:
+# http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/config
+
+# -- Path setup --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+import os
+import sys
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath("../src"))
+
+
+# -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
+
+project = u'robot_interface'
+copyright = u'2025, Author'
+author = u'Author'
+
+# The short X.Y version
+version = u''
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
+release = u''
+
+
+# -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#
+# needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+    'sphinx.ext.autodoc',
+    'sphinx.ext.viewcode',
+    'sphinx.ext.todo',
+]
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
+# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
+#
+# source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#
+# This is also used if you do content translation via gettext catalogs.
+# Usually you set "language" from the command line for these cases.
+language = 'en'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+# This pattern also affects html_static_path and html_extra_path.
+exclude_patterns = ['_build', 'Thumbs.db', '.DS_Store']
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = None
+
+
+# -- Options for HTML output -------------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+#
+html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#
+# html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
+# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
+# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
+html_static_path = ['_static']
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, must be a dictionary that maps document names
+# to template names.
+#
+# The default sidebars (for documents that don't match any pattern) are
+# defined by theme itself.  Builtin themes are using these templates by
+# default: ``['localtoc.html', 'relations.html', 'sourcelink.html',
+# 'searchbox.html']``.
+#
+# html_sidebars = {}
+
+
+# -- Options for HTMLHelp output ---------------------------------------------
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'robot_interfacedoc'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output ------------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+    # The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+    #
+    # 'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+    # The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+    #
+    # 'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+    # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+    #
+    # 'preamble': '',
+
+    # Latex figure (float) alignment
+    #
+    # 'figure_align': 'htbp',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title,
+#  author, documentclass [howto, manual, or own class]).
+latex_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'robot_interface.tex', u'robot\\_interface Documentation',
+     u'Author', 'manual'),
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ------------------------------------------
+
+# One entry per manual page. List of tuples
+# (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
+man_pages = [
+    (master_doc, 'robot_interface', u'robot_interface Documentation',
+     [author], 1)
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output ----------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+texinfo_documents = [
+    (master_doc, 'robot_interface', u'robot_interface Documentation',
+     author, 'robot_interface', 'One line description of project.',
+     'Miscellaneous'),
+]
+
+
+# -- Options for Epub output -------------------------------------------------
+
+# Bibliographic Dublin Core info.
+epub_title = project
+
+# The unique identifier of the text. This can be a ISBN number
+# or the project homepage.
+#
+# epub_identifier = ''
+
+# A unique identification for the text.
+#
+# epub_uid = ''
+
+# A list of files that should not be packed into the epub file.
+epub_exclude_files = ['search.html']
+
+
+# -- Extension configuration -------------------------------------------------
+
+# -- Options for todo extension ----------------------------------------------
+
+# If true, `todo` and `todoList` produce output, else they produce nothing.
+todo_include_todos = True

requirements.txt

@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ pyaudio<=0.2.11
 pytest<5
 pytest-mock<3.0.0
 pytest-cov<3.0.0
+sphinx
+sphinx_rtd_theme

src/robot_interface/state.py

@@ -45,7 +45,13 @@ class State(object):
 
     def __getattribute__(self, name):
         # Enforce that the state is initialized before accessing any property (aside from the basic ones)
-        if name in ("initialize", "deinitialize", "is_initialized", "__dict__", "__class__"):
+        if name in (
+                "initialize", 
+                "deinitialize", 
+                "is_initialized", 
+                "__dict__", 
+                "__class__",
+                "__doc__"):
             return object.__getattribute__(self, name)
 
         if not object.__getattribute__(self, "is_initialized"):