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-rw-r--r--gnu/services/configuration.scm14
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diff --git a/gnu/services/configuration.scm b/gnu/services/configuration.scm
index 15bd30970c..7c9146362f 100644
--- a/gnu/services/configuration.scm
+++ b/gnu/services/configuration.scm
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2017 Mathieu Othacehe <m.othacehe@gmail.com>
;;; Copyright © 2017, 2018 Clément Lassieur <clement@lassieur.org>
;;; Copyright © 2021 Xinglu Chen <public@yoctocell.xyz>
+;;; Copyright © 2021 Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -44,6 +45,7 @@
define-configuration
validate-configuration
generate-documentation
+ configuration->documentation
serialize-package))
;;; Commentary:
@@ -214,3 +216,15 @@ does not have a default value" field kind)))
(or (assq-ref sub-documentation field-name) '())))))
fields)))))
(stexi->texi `(*fragment* . ,(generate documentation-name))))
+
+(define (configuration->documentation configuration-symbol)
+ "Take CONFIGURATION-SYMBOL, the symbol corresponding to the name used when
+defining a configuration record with DEFINE-CONFIGURATION, and output the
+Texinfo documentation of its fields."
+ ;; This is helper for a simple, straight-forward application of
+ ;; GENERATE-DOCUMENTATION.
+ (let ((fields-getter (module-ref (current-module)
+ (symbol-append configuration-symbol
+ '-fields))))
+ (format #t (generate-documentation `((,configuration-symbol ,fields-getter))
+ configuration-symbol))))