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    Modernize documentation and fix old warts in some of the API code.

    Review Request #10465 — Created May 17, 2019 and updated

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    RBTools
    master

    Reviewers

    The API code was written before our current documentation standards, and
    largely lacked any documentation. Some of the documentation we had was
    incomplete or misleading. This made it a bit hard to reason about this
    part of the codebase and make changes to it, and made it hard to consume
    without reading through a lot of complex code.

    This change fleshes out documentation for several of the major
    components in the communication layers of the API, bringing these parts
    up-to-date with our standards.

    To help with readability, it also fixes up a few function signatures in
    places, marks a few internal attributes in ReviewBoardServer as
    private, and removes some unneeded attributes in
    ReviewBoardHTTPPasswordMgr.

    Posted this change successfully.

    Unit tests pass.

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    Modernize documentation and fix old warts in some of the API code.
    The API code was written before our current documentation standards, and largely lacked any documentation. Some of the documentation we had was incomplete or misleading. This made it a bit hard to reason about this part of the codebase and make changes to it, and made it hard to consume without reading through a lot of complex code. This change fleshes out documentation for several of the major components in the communication layers of the API, bringing these parts up-to-date with our standards. To help with readability, it also fixes up a few function signatures in places, marks a few internal attributes in `ReviewBoardServer` as private, and removes some unneeded attributes in `ReviewBoardHTTPPasswordMgr`.
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    This first paragraph is pretty clunky. How about "If authenticating with Review Board and an :py:attr:auth_callback is provided to the …

    daviddavid

    I don't think "Two Factor Auth" needs to be title cased

    daviddavid

    And here.

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      This first paragraph is pretty clunky. How about "If authenticating with Review Board and an :py:attr:auth_callback is provided to the password manager, it will always be called. This allows the callback to provide a new username and password, which will then be returned."

    3. rbtools/api/request.py (Diff revision 1)
       
       
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      I don't think "Two Factor Auth" needs to be title cased

    4. rbtools/api/request.py (Diff revision 1)
       
       
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      And here.

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