Add the notion of standalone doc sections.

Up to now, section annotations had to match a class or interface
name in order to be serialized in the gir.

With this commit, they now get serialized as docsection nodes,
for potential use by documentation tools.

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/giscanner/girwriter.py b/giscanner/girwriter.py
index d1333cb7..05f4434e 100644
--- a/giscanner/girwriter.py
+++ b/giscanner/girwriter.py
@@ -113,6 +113,8 @@ class GIRWriter(XMLWriter):
             self._write_alias(node)
         elif isinstance(node, ast.Constant):
             self._write_constant(node)
+        elif isinstance(node, ast.DocSection):
+            self._write_doc_section(node)
         else:
             print('WRITER: Unhandled node', node)
 
@@ -442,6 +444,11 @@ class GIRWriter(XMLWriter):
         with self.tagcontext('member', attrs):
             self._write_generic(member)
 
+    def _write_doc_section(self, doc_section):
+        attrs = [('name', doc_section.name)]
+        with self.tagcontext('docsection', attrs):
+            self._write_generic(doc_section)
+
     def _write_constant(self, constant):
         attrs = [('name', constant.name),
                  ('value', constant.value),