Fix the search function in Sphinx generated html docs when built
with Sphinx >= 6.0.0.

Quote from the Sphinx blog at
https://blog.readthedocs.com/sphinx6-upgrade

Sphinx 6 is out and has important breaking changes

Bundled jQuery is removed. The JavaScript asset is easily added
back using the new extension sphinxcontrib-jquery. It is included
automatically by sphinx-rtd-theme, so if you are using our theme,
you will also continue to have jQuery available in your
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de>
---
 docs/conf.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 876f676881..2aedd407a0 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -62,6 +62,9 @@
 # ones.
 extensions = ['kerneldoc', 'qmp_lexer', 'hxtool', 'depfile', 'qapidoc']
 
+if sphinx.version_info[:3] >= (6, 0, 0):
+    extensions += ['sphinxcontrib.jquery']
+
 if sphinx.version_info[:3] > (4, 0, 0):
     tags.add('sphinx4')
     extensions += ['dbusdoc']
-- 
2.35.3

On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 at 21:11, Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> Fix the search function in Sphinx generated html docs when built
> with Sphinx >= 6.0.0.
>
> Quote from the Sphinx blog at
> https://blog.readthedocs.com/sphinx6-upgrade
>
> Sphinx 6 is out and has important breaking changes
>
> Bundled jQuery is removed. The JavaScript asset is easily added
> back using the new extension sphinxcontrib-jquery. It is included
> automatically by sphinx-rtd-theme, so if you are using our theme,
> you will also continue to have jQuery available in your
> documentation.

We do use the sphinx-rtd-theme, though:
 html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'

so that release note suggests we shouldn't need to manually
pull in sphinxcontrib-jquery ?

thanks
-- PMM

Am 18.07.24 um 11:17 schrieb Peter Maydell:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 at 21:11, Volker Rümelin <vr_qemu@t-online.de> wrote:
>> Fix the search function in Sphinx generated html docs when built
>> with Sphinx >= 6.0.0.
>>
>> Quote from the Sphinx blog at
>> https://blog.readthedocs.com/sphinx6-upgrade
>>
>> Sphinx 6 is out and has important breaking changes
>>
>> Bundled jQuery is removed. The JavaScript asset is easily added
>> back using the new extension sphinxcontrib-jquery. It is included
>> automatically by sphinx-rtd-theme, so if you are using our theme,
>> you will also continue to have jQuery available in your
>> documentation.
> We do use the sphinx-rtd-theme, though:
>  html_theme = 'sphinx_rtd_theme'
>
> so that release note suggests we shouldn't need to manually
> pull in sphinxcontrib-jquery ?

You are right. I had a broken version of the sphinx_rtd_theme (version
1.2.0). This is a known issue and my patch is not necessary.

With best regards,
Volker

>
> thanks
> -- PMM