docs: Added pickle RefMan loader

docs/refman/loaderpickle.py

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifer: Apache-2.0
+# Copyright 2021 The Meson development team
+
+from pathlib import Path
+import pickle
+
+from .loaderbase import LoaderBase
+from .model import ReferenceManual
+
+class LoaderPickle(LoaderBase):
+    def __init__(self, in_file: Path) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        self.in_file = in_file
+
+    def load_impl(self) -> ReferenceManual:
+        res = pickle.loads(self.in_file.read_bytes())
+        assert isinstance(res, ReferenceManual)
+        return res
+
+    # Assume that the pickled data is OK and skip validation
+    def load(self) -> ReferenceManual:
+        return self.load_impl()

docs/refman/main.py

@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 from mesonbuild import mlog
 
 from .loaderbase import LoaderBase
+from .loaderpickle import LoaderPickle
 from .loaderyaml import LoaderYAML
 
 from .generatorbase import GeneratorBase
@@ -30,10 +31,11 @@
 
 def main() -> int:
     parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Meson reference manual generator')
-    parser.add_argument('-l', '--loader', type=str, default='yaml', choices=['yaml'], help='Information loader backend')
+    parser.add_argument('-l', '--loader', type=str, default='yaml', choices=['yaml', 'pickle'], help='Information loader backend')
     parser.add_argument('-g', '--generator', type=str, choices=['print', 'pickle', 'md'], required=True, help='Generator backend')
     parser.add_argument('-s', '--sitemap', type=Path, default=meson_root / 'docs' / 'sitemap.txt', help='Path to the input sitemap.txt')
     parser.add_argument('-o', '--out', type=Path, required=True, help='Output directory for generated files')
+    parser.add_argument('-i', '--input', type=Path, default=meson_root / 'docs' / 'yaml', help='Input path for the selected loader')
     parser.add_argument('--link-defs', type=Path, help='Output file for the MD generator link definition file')
     parser.add_argument('--depfile', type=Path, default=None, help='Set to generate a depfile')
     parser.add_argument('--force-color', action='store_true', help='Force enable colors')
@@ -44,7 +46,8 @@ def main() -> int:
         mlog.colorize_console = lambda: True
 
     loaders: T.Dict[str, T.Callable[[], LoaderBase]] = {
-        'yaml': lambda: LoaderYAML(meson_root / 'docs' / 'yaml'),
+        'yaml': lambda: LoaderYAML(args.input),
+        'pickle': lambda: LoaderPickle(args.input),
     }
 
     loader = loaders[args.loader]()