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<span id="building-docs"></span><h1>Building the Documentation<a class="headerlink" href="#building-the-documentation" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h1>
<section id="prerequisites">
<h2>Prerequisites<a class="headerlink" href="#prerequisites" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>The documentation build process uses <a class="reference external" href="http://www.doxygen.nl/">Doxygen</a> and
<a class="reference external" href="http://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> along with a few extensions.</p>
<p>If you’re using Conda, the required software can be installed in a single line:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>conda<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>-c<span class="w"> </span>conda-forge<span class="w"> </span>--file<span class="o">=</span>arrow/ci/conda_env_sphinx.txt
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Otherwise, you’ll first need to install <a class="reference external" href="http://www.doxygen.nl/">Doxygen</a>
yourself (for example from your distribution’s official repositories, if
using Linux). Then you can install the Python-based requirements with the
following command:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>-r<span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs/requirements.txt
</pre></div>
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</section>
<section id="building">
<h2>Building<a class="headerlink" href="#building" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>If you are building the documentation on Windows, not all sections
may build properly.</p>
</div>
<p>These two steps are mandatory and must be executed in order.</p>
<ol class="arabic">
<li><p>Process the C++ API using Doxygen</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">pushd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/cpp/apidoc
doxygen
<span class="nb">popd</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
<li><p>Build the complete documentation using Sphinx.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>If you are working on the Python bindings documentation then
this step requires that <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyarrow</span></code> library is installed
in your python environment. One way to accomplish
this is to follow the build instructions at <a class="reference internal" href="python.html#python-development"><span class="std std-ref">Python Development</span></a>
and then run <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">python</span> <span class="pre">setup.py</span> <span class="pre">install</span></code> in arrow/python
(it is best to do this in a dedicated conda/virtual environment).</p>
<p>You can still build the documentation without <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyarrow</span></code>
library installed but note that Python part of the documentation
will be missing from the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_build/html</span></code> file structure and the
links to the Python documentation will get broken.</p>
</div>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">pushd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs
make<span class="w"> </span>html
<span class="nb">popd</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</li>
</ol>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>Note that building the documentation may fail if your build of pyarrow is
not sufficiently comprehensive. Portions of the Python API documentation
will also not build without CUDA support having been built.</p>
</div>
<p>After these steps are completed, the documentation is rendered in HTML
format in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/docs/_build/html</span></code>. In particular, you can point your browser
at <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/docs/_build/html/index.html</span></code> to read the docs and review any changes
you made.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>If you are working on the Python documentation and are building the documentation
with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyarrow</span></code> build from source on macOS Monterey, the Python section of the
documentation might not be included in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_build/html</span></code>. In this case, try
installing <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">pyarrow</span></code> in non-editable mode first before running the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">html</span></code>
command.</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">pushd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs
python<span class="w"> </span>-m<span class="w"> </span>pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>../python<span class="w"> </span>--quiet
make<span class="w"> </span>html
<span class="nb">popd</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
</section>
<section id="building-with-docker">
<h2>Building with Docker<a class="headerlink" href="#building-with-docker" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>You can use <a class="reference internal" href="continuous_integration/archery.html#archery"><span class="std std-ref">Archery</span></a> to build the documentation within a
Docker container.</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>archery<span class="w"> </span>docker<span class="w"> </span>run<span class="w"> </span>-v<span class="w"> </span><span class="s2">&quot;</span><span class="si">${</span><span class="nv">PWD</span><span class="si">}</span><span class="s2">/docs:/build/docs&quot;</span><span class="w"> </span>ubuntu-docs
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The final output is located under the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">${PWD}/docs</span></code> directory.</p>
<div class="admonition seealso">
<p class="admonition-title">See also</p>
<p><a class="reference internal" href="continuous_integration/docker.html#docker-builds"><span class="std std-ref">Running Docker Builds</span></a>.</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="building-a-docs-preview-in-a-pull-request">
<span id="building-docs-pr-preview"></span><h2>Building a docs preview in a Pull Request<a class="headerlink" href="#building-a-docs-preview-in-a-pull-request" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>
<p>You can build and preview the documentation within a GitHub pull request you are working on.</p>
<p>To do so, post the comment <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">&#64;github-actions</span> <span class="pre">crossbow</span> <span class="pre">submit</span> <span class="pre">preview-docs</span></code>
to the pull request. The rendered documentation will then be available within the
GitHub Actions response, where you need to click on the Crossbow build badge:</p>
<figure class="align-default" id="id2">
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="../_images/docs_preview_1.jpeg"><img alt="GitHub Actions response with the crossbow build status." src="../_images/docs_preview_1.jpeg" style="width: 701.4px; height: 212.1px;" /></a>
<figcaption>
<p><span class="caption-text">Crossbow build status</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id2" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
<p>and then in the summary of the workflow you can find the link to the Docs Preview
summary at the bottom of the page:</p>
<figure class="align-default" id="id3">
<a class="reference internal image-reference" href="../_images/docs_preview_2.jpeg"><img alt="Crossbow workflow page with the Docs Preview summary section." src="../_images/docs_preview_2.jpeg" style="width: 835.8px; height: 521.5px;" /></a>
<figcaption>
<p><span class="caption-text">Docs Preview summary section</span><a class="headerlink" href="#id3" title="Permalink to this image">#</a></p>
</figcaption>
</figure>
</section>
<section id="building-for-dev-purposes">
<h2>Building for dev purposes<a class="headerlink" href="#building-for-dev-purposes" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2>
<section id="building-subsections">
<h3>Building subsections<a class="headerlink" href="#building-subsections" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>To make it easier for developers to update parts of the documentation, one can
build only a subset of it. You can build:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Specifications and protocol section (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">docs/source/format</span></code>) with:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">pushd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs
make<span class="w"> </span>format
<span class="nb">popd</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Rendered HTML format can be found in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/docs/_build/html/format</span></code>.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Development section (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">docs/source/developers</span></code>) with:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">pushd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs
make<span class="w"> </span>dev
<span class="nb">popd</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Rendered HTML format can be found in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/docs/_build/html/developers</span></code>.</p>
</li>
<li><p>C++ section (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">docs/source/cpp</span></code>) with:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">pushd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs
make<span class="w"> </span>cpp
<span class="nb">popd</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Rendered HTML format can be found in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/docs/_build/html/cpp</span></code>.</p>
</li>
<li><p>Python section (<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">docs/source/python</span></code>) with:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">pushd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs
make<span class="w"> </span>python
<span class="nb">popd</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Rendered HTML format can be found in <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/docs/_build/html/python</span></code>.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>When building only a part of the documentation the links will get broken!</p>
<p>For this reason building only a subset of the documentation should only be
used in the initial work as it makes the building faster and easier.</p>
<p>To check for the correctness of the documentation overall one should
build the whole documentation with <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">html</span></code> or use
<a class="reference internal" href="#building-docs-pr-preview"><span class="std std-ref">GitHub Actions</span></a>.</p>
</div>
</section>
<section id="building-live">
<h3>Building live<a class="headerlink" href="#building-live" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>You can also build the documentation (or a part of it) live. This means the
changes saved will automatically trigger the documentation to be rebuilt.</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">pushd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs
make<span class="w"> </span>html-live
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>The same way one could use <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">format-live</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">dev-live</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">cpp-live</span></code>
or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">python-live</span></code> to auto-build part of the documentation.</p>
</section>
<section id="building-a-single-directory-for-dev-purposes-without-all-the-pre-requisites">
<h3>Building a single directory for dev purposes without all the pre-requisites<a class="headerlink" href="#building-a-single-directory-for-dev-purposes-without-all-the-pre-requisites" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h3>
<p>You can build documentation in a single directory without needing to install
all of the pre-requisites by installing sphinx, setting up a temporary
index in the directory you want to build and then building that directory.</p>
<p>The example below shows how to do this in the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/docs/source/developers</span></code> directory.</p>
<p>Install <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">sphinx</span></code>:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>pip<span class="w"> </span>install<span class="w"> </span>sphinx
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Navigate to the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">arrow/docs</span></code> directory:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">cd</span><span class="w"> </span>arrow/docs
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Create an temporary index file <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">temp_index.rst</span></code> file in the target directory:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nb">echo</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s1">$&#39;.. toctree::\n\t:glob:\n\n\t*&#39;</span><span class="w"> </span>&gt;<span class="w"> </span>./source/developers/temp_index.rst
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>Build the docs in the target directory:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>sphinx-build<span class="w"> </span>./source/developers<span class="w"> </span>./source/developers/_build<span class="w"> </span>-c<span class="w"> </span>./source<span class="w"> </span>-D<span class="w"> </span><span class="nv">master_doc</span><span class="o">=</span>temp_index
</pre></div>
</div>
<p>This builds everything in the target directory to a folder inside of it
called <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">_build</span></code> using the config file in the <cite>source</cite> directory.</p>
<p>Once you have verified the HTML documents, you can remove temporary index file:</p>
<div class="highlight-shell notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>rm<span class="w"> </span>./source/developers/temp_index.rst
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