Docs: Addition of docs inventory (`objects.inv`)

[JP-Ellis]

What were you searching in the docs?

I am documenting a repository which uses AWS Powertools for Lambda, using MkDocs. In general, it is possible to import inventories of other packages so that when the documentation is generated, links can go out to the relevant docs sites.

Examples include:

• https://docs.aiohttp.org/en/stable/objects.inv
• https://docs.pydantic.dev/latest/objects.inv
• https://docs.python.org/3/objects.inv

It would appear that the AWS Powertools for Lambda documentation does not generate/include the inventory file

Is this related to an existing documentation section?

No response

How can we improve?

By ensuring that the file is available at its standard location (e.g. https://docs.powertools.aws.dev/lambda/python/latest/object.inv), or to document where it is being published.

Got a suggestion in mind?

No response

Acknowledgment

• I understand the final update might be different from my proposed suggestion, or refused.

[boring-cyborg]

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[leandrodamascena]

Hi @JP-Ellis! Thanks for letting us know this exists, I had no idea about it and it looks like a great feature.

I'm trying to see how mkdocs implement this and how we can use this in Powertools. If you have any ideas and can share, I would really appreciate it.

[JP-Ellis]

MkDocs on its own is just for displaying Markdown files, but the mkdocstrings plugin is really useful to parse and convert the docstrings from the Python code into documentation and (importantly) an inventory file.

I'll see about making a little PoC over the weekend 🙂

[leandrodamascena]

MkDocs on its own is just for displaying Markdown files, but the mkdocstrings plugin is really useful to parse and convert the docstrings from the Python code into documentation and (importantly) an inventory file.

I'll see about making a little PoC over the weekend 🙂

Ohh, great! We're trying to use mkdocstrings to create new documentation for the Parser and Event Source Data Classes, but it looks like we need a major refactoring in some parts of the documentation.

Please let me know if you need help with this PoC, we're very interested in adopting mkdocstrings.