namespaces: update documentation and code indentation

The previous patch changed just the functionality, while this patch focuses on
the documentation and indentation to keep review simple.

mercurial/namespaces.py

@@ -1,154 +1,134
 from i18n import _
 from mercurial import util
 import templatekw
 
 def tolist(val):
     """
     a convenience method to return an empty list instead of None
     """
     if val is None:
         return []
     else:
         return [val]
 
 class namespaces(object):
-    """
-    provides an interface to register a generic many-to-many mapping between
-    some (namespaced) names and nodes. The goal here is to control the
-    pollution of jamming things into tags or bookmarks (in extension-land) and
-    to simplify internal bits of mercurial: log output, tab completion, etc.
-
-    More precisely, we define a list of names (the namespace), a mapping of
-    names to nodes, and a mapping from nodes to names. Each mapping
-    returns a list of nodes.
+    """provides an interface to register and operate on multiple namespaces. See
+    the namespace class below for details on the namespace object.
 
-    Furthermore, each name mapping will be passed a name to lookup which might
-    not be in its domain. In this case, each method should return an empty list
-    and not raise an error.
-
-    We'll have a dictionary '_names' where each key is a namespace and
-    its value is a dictionary of functions:
-      'templatename': name to use for templating (usually the singular form
-                      of the plural namespace name)
-      'namemap': function that takes a name and returns a list of nodes
-      'nodemap': function that takes a node and returns a list of names
     """
 
     _names_version = 0
 
     def __init__(self):
         self._names = util.sortdict()
 
         # shorten the class name for less indentation
         ns = namespace
 
         # we need current mercurial named objects (bookmarks, tags, and
         # branches) to be initialized somewhere, so that place is here
         n = ns("bookmarks", "bookmark",
-              lambda repo, name: tolist(repo._bookmarks.get(name)),
-              lambda repo, name: repo.nodebookmarks(name))
+               lambda repo, name: tolist(repo._bookmarks.get(name)),
+               lambda repo, name: repo.nodebookmarks(name))
         self.addnamespace(n)
 
         n = ns("tags", "tag",
-              lambda repo, name: tolist(repo._tagscache.tags.get(name)),
-              lambda repo, name: repo.nodetags(name))
+               lambda repo, name: tolist(repo._tagscache.tags.get(name)),
+               lambda repo, name: repo.nodetags(name))
         self.addnamespace(n)
 
         n = ns("branches", "branch",
-              lambda repo, name: tolist(repo.branchtip(name)),
-              lambda repo, node: [repo[node].branch()])
+               lambda repo, name: tolist(repo.branchtip(name)),
+               lambda repo, node: [repo[node].branch()])
         self.addnamespace(n)
 
     def addnamespace(self, namespace, order=None):
-        """
-        register a namespace
+        """register a namespace
 
         namespace: the name to be registered (in plural form)
-        templatename: the name to use for templating
-        namemap: function that inputs a node, output name(s)
-        nodemap: function that inputs a name, output node(s)
         order: optional argument to specify the order of namespaces
                (e.g. 'branches' should be listed before 'bookmarks')
+
         """
         if order is not None:
             self._names.insert(order, namespace.name, namespace)
         else:
             self._names[namespace.name] = namespace
 
         # we only generate a template keyword if one does not already exist
         if namespace.name not in templatekw.keywords:
             def generatekw(**args):
                 return templatekw.shownames(namespace.name, **args)
 
             templatekw.keywords[namespace.name] = generatekw
 
     def singlenode(self, repo, name):
         """
         Return the 'best' node for the given name. Best means the first node
         in the first nonempty list returned by a name-to-nodes mapping function
         in the defined precedence order.
 
         Raises a KeyError if there is no such node.
         """
         for ns, v in self._names.iteritems():
             n = v.namemap(repo, name)
             if n:
                 # return max revision number
                 if len(n) > 1:
                     cl = repo.changelog
                     maxrev = max(cl.rev(node) for node in n)
                     return cl.node(maxrev)
                 return n[0]
         raise KeyError(_('no such name: %s') % name)
 
     def templatename(self, namespace):
         """method that returns the template name of a namespace"""
         return self._names[namespace].templatename
 
     def names(self, repo, namespace, node):
         """method that returns a (sorted) list of names in a namespace that
         match a given node"""
         return sorted(self._names[namespace].nodemap(repo, node))
 
 class namespace(object):
     """provides an interface to a namespace
 
     Namespaces are basically generic many-to-many mapping between some
     (namespaced) names and nodes. The goal here is to control the pollution of
     jamming things into tags or bookmarks (in extension-land) and to simplify
     internal bits of mercurial: log output, tab completion, etc.
 
     More precisely, we define a mapping of names to nodes, and a mapping from
     nodes to names. Each mapping returns a list.
 
     Furthermore, each name mapping will be passed a name to lookup which might
     not be in its domain. In this case, each method should return an empty list
     and not raise an error.
 
     This namespace object will define the properties we need:
       'name': the namespace (plural form)
       'templatename': name to use for templating (usually the singular form
                       of the plural namespace name)
       'namemap': function that takes a name and returns a list of nodes
       'nodemap': function that takes a node and returns a list of names
 
     """
 
     def __init__(self, name, templatename, namemap, nodemap):
         """create a namespace
 
         name: the namespace to be registered (in plural form)
         templatename: the name to use for templating
         namemap: function that inputs a node, output name(s)
         nodemap: function that inputs a name, output node(s)
 
         """
         self.name = name
         self.templatename = templatename
         self.namemap = namemap
         self.nodemap = nodemap
 
     def names(self, repo, node):
         """method that returns a (sorted) list of names in a namespace that
         match a given node"""
         return sorted(self.nodemap(repo, node))