[Feature Request] support :inherited-members: and :show-inheritance:

[lukehsiao]

One of the key selling points of autoapi is that unlike autodoc, it does not need to load, run, or import the project being documented. However, autoapi current does not support showing inheritance or inherited members (see autoapi_options in https://sphinx-autoapi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/config.html.

To be a viable replacement for autodocs in our use case, we would like support for :inherited-members: and :show-inheritance:.

[timokau]

Is there any example project that uses this? I tried to enable the :show-inheritance: option for our project, but it seems to have no effect.

• Here is the conf.py.
• Here is a superclass that defines the feedback_mechanism attribute.
• Here is a subclass that inherits that attribute.
• Here are the rendered docs of the attribute in the superclass.
• Here are the rendered docs of the subclass, not including the attribute documentation.
• Here are the logs of the documentation build using sphinx-autoapi 1.7.0.

@AWhetter could you have a look? Am I doing something wrong?

[AWhetter]

This is a different bug. AutoAPI is currently ignoring inherited attributes. Please could you make a separate issue for the problem.

[timokau]

Thanks for the response. I have opened #272.