Including default values for Pydantic model attributes about pydoctor

[tristanlatr]

I’m working on adding better support for attrs API (#656). See the result here . Basically it auto generates the documentation for the init method, which contain default values in the signature.

Once this merged, I’ll adjust the code so that it will work for dataclasses and named tuples, as well as for pydantic models. Since all of this provides more or less the same thing (from a documentation perspective).

For the short term, we could improve the way the system choose to display the value of an attribute so that it can be customized by subclassing the System class. This means replacing the static System.show_attr_value class attribute into a function System.showAttributeValue. Which could be customized on your end afterwards.

tell me what you think.

[jgarbers]

Thanks so much for the quick reply! It'll take me some study to get a solid grasp of what you're proposing but I have high confidence that it'll be just fine. I still owe you a reproducer on issue #728 but recreating that situation is trickier than I thought... hopefully soon!

[tristanlatr]

This is the place that needs change for the short term: https://github.com/twisted/pydoctor/blob/662eafaedcdfcfa0c5a83c1048c28f187fbcf4c9/pydoctor/templatewriter/pages/attributechild.py#L81C5-L81C5