#347: use autodoc documenter detection in autosummary.

3 files changed, 27 insertions, 28 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES
index 7b83ac5a3..e91a032e0 100644
--- a/CHANGES
+++ b/CHANGES
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 Release 1.0.7 (in development)
 ==============================
 
+* #347: Fix wrong generation of directives of static methods in
+  autosummary.
+
 * #599: Import PIL as ``from PIL import Image``.
 
 * #558: Fix longtables with captions in LaTeX output.
diff --git a/sphinx/ext/autosummary/__init__.py b/sphinx/ext/autosummary/__init__.py
index f75307e01..dace837fe 100644
--- a/sphinx/ext/autosummary/__init__.py
+++ b/sphinx/ext/autosummary/__init__.py
@@ -134,27 +134,19 @@ except AttributeError:
         return False
     isgetsetdescriptor = ismemberdescriptor
 
-def get_documenter(obj):
+def get_documenter(obj, parent):
     """
     Get an autodoc.Documenter class suitable for documenting the given object
     """
-    import sphinx.ext.autodoc as autodoc
-
-    if inspect.isclass(obj):
-        if issubclass(obj, Exception):
-            return autodoc.ExceptionDocumenter
-        return autodoc.ClassDocumenter
-    elif inspect.ismodule(obj):
-        return autodoc.ModuleDocumenter
-    elif inspect.ismethod(obj) or inspect.ismethoddescriptor(obj):
-        return autodoc.MethodDocumenter
-    elif (ismemberdescriptor(obj) or isgetsetdescriptor(obj)
-          or inspect.isdatadescriptor(obj)):
-        return autodoc.AttributeDocumenter
-    elif inspect.isroutine(obj):
-        return autodoc.FunctionDocumenter
+    from sphinx.ext.autodoc import AutoDirective, DataDocumenter
+
+    classes = [cls for cls in AutoDirective._registry.values()
+               if cls.can_document_member(obj, '', False, parent)]
+    if classes:
+        classes.sort(key=lambda cls: cls.priority)
+        return classes[-1]
     else:
-        return autodoc.DataDocumenter
+        return DataDocumenter
 
 
 # -- .. autosummary:: ----------------------------------------------------------
@@ -240,7 +232,7 @@ class Autosummary(Directive):
                 display_name = name.split('.')[-1]
 
             try:
-                obj, real_name = import_by_name(name, prefixes=prefixes)
+                real_name, obj, parent = import_by_name(name, prefixes=prefixes)
             except ImportError:
                 self.warn('failed to import %s' % name)
                 items.append((name, '', '', name))
@@ -248,7 +240,7 @@ class Autosummary(Directive):
 
             # NB. using real_name here is important, since Documenters
             #     handle module prefixes slightly differently
-            documenter = get_documenter(obj)(self, real_name)
+            documenter = get_documenter(obj, parent)(self, real_name)
             if not documenter.parse_name():
                 self.warn('failed to parse name %s' % real_name)
                 items.append((display_name, '', '', real_name))
@@ -388,7 +380,8 @@ def import_by_name(name, prefixes=[None]):
                 prefixed_name = '.'.join([prefix, name])
             else:
                 prefixed_name = name
-            return _import_by_name(prefixed_name), prefixed_name
+            obj, parent = _import_by_name(prefixed_name)
+            return prefixed_name, obj, parent
         except ImportError:
             tried.append(prefixed_name)
     raise ImportError('no module named %s' % ' or '.join(tried))
@@ -403,7 +396,8 @@ def _import_by_name(name):
         if modname:
             try:
                 __import__(modname)
-                return getattr(sys.modules[modname], name_parts[-1])
+                mod = sys.modules[modname]
+                return getattr(mod, name_parts[-1]), mod
             except (ImportError, IndexError, AttributeError):
                 pass
 
@@ -421,12 +415,14 @@ def _import_by_name(name):
                 break
 
         if last_j < len(name_parts):
+            parent = None
             obj = sys.modules[modname]
             for obj_name in name_parts[last_j:]:
+                parent = obj
                 obj = getattr(obj, obj_name)
-            return obj
+            return obj, parent
         else:
-            return sys.modules[modname]
+            return sys.modules[modname], None
     except (ValueError, ImportError, AttributeError, KeyError), e:
         raise ImportError(*e.args)
 
@@ -449,7 +445,7 @@ def autolink_role(typ, rawtext, etext, lineno, inliner,
     prefixes = [None]
     #prefixes.insert(0, inliner.document.settings.env.currmodule)
     try:
-        obj, name = import_by_name(pnode['reftarget'], prefixes)
+        name, obj, parent = import_by_name(pnode['reftarget'], prefixes)
     except ImportError:
         content = pnode[0]
         r[0][0] = nodes.emphasis(rawtext, content[0].astext(),
diff --git a/sphinx/ext/autosummary/generate.py b/sphinx/ext/autosummary/generate.py
index f8230216c..b5ff3f4ca 100644
--- a/sphinx/ext/autosummary/generate.py
+++ b/sphinx/ext/autosummary/generate.py
@@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ def generate_autosummary_docs(sources, output_dir=None, suffix='.rst',
         ensuredir(path)
 
         try:
-            obj, name = import_by_name(name)
+            name, obj, parent = import_by_name(name)
         except ImportError, e:
             warn('[autosummary] failed to import %r: %s' % (name, e))
             continue
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ def generate_autosummary_docs(sources, output_dir=None, suffix='.rst',
         f = open(fn, 'w')
 
         try:
-            doc = get_documenter(obj)
+            doc = get_documenter(obj, parent)
 
             if template_name is not None:
                 template = template_env.get_template(template_name)
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ def generate_autosummary_docs(sources, output_dir=None, suffix='.rst',
             def get_members(obj, typ, include_public=[]):
                 items = [
                     name for name in dir(obj)
-                    if get_documenter(getattr(obj, name)).objtype == typ
+                    if get_documenter(getattr(obj, name), obj).objtype == typ
                 ]
                 public = [x for x in items
                           if x in include_public or not x.startswith('_')]
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ def find_autosummary_in_docstring(name, module=None, filename=None):
     See `find_autosummary_in_lines`.
     """
     try:
-        obj, real_name = import_by_name(name)
+        real_name, obj, parent = import_by_name(name)
         lines = pydoc.getdoc(obj).splitlines()
         return find_autosummary_in_lines(lines, module=name, filename=filename)
     except AttributeError: