feat: Improve CodeSyntaxHighlight object (#268)

.github/workflows/test_and_deploy.yml

@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ jobs:
       dependency-ref: ${{ matrix.napari-version }}
       dependency-extras: "testing"
       qt: ${{ matrix.qt }}
-      pytest-args: 'napari/_qt -k "not async and not qt_dims_2 and not qt_viewer_console_focus and not keybinding_editor"'
+      pytest-args: 'napari/_qt -k "not async and not qt_dims_2 and not qt_viewer_console_focus and not keybinding_editor and not preferences_dialog_not_dismissed"'
       python-version: "3.10"
       post-install-cmd: "pip install lxml_html_clean"
     strategy:

src/superqt/utils/_code_syntax_highlight.py

@@ -1,81 +1,268 @@
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import TYPE_CHECKING, Any, cast
+
 from pygments import highlight
 from pygments.formatter import Formatter
 from pygments.lexers import find_lexer_class, get_lexer_by_name
 from pygments.util import ClassNotFound
-from qtpy import QtGui
+from qtpy.QtGui import (
+    QColor,
+    QFont,
+    QPalette,
+    QSyntaxHighlighter,
+    QTextCharFormat,
+    QTextDocument,
+)
 
-# inspired by  https://github.com/Vector35/snippets/blob/master/QCodeEditor.py
-# (MIT license) and
-# https://pygments.org/docs/formatterdevelopment/#html-3-2-formatter
+if TYPE_CHECKING:
+    from collections.abc import Mapping, Sequence
+    from typing import Literal, TypeAlias, TypedDict, Unpack
+
+    import pygments.style
+    from pygments.style import _StyleDict
+    from pygments.token import _TokenType
+    from qtpy.QtCore import QObject
+
+    class SupportsDocumentAndPalette(QObject):
+        def document(self) -> QTextDocument | None: ...
+        def palette(self) -> QPalette: ...
+        def setPalette(self, palette: QPalette) -> None: ...
+
+    KnownStyle: TypeAlias = Literal[
+        "abap",
+        "algol",
+        "algol_nu",
+        "arduino",
+        "autumn",
+        "bw",
+        "borland",
+        "coffee",
+        "colorful",
+        "default",
+        "dracula",
+        "emacs",
+        "friendly_grayscale",
+        "friendly",
+        "fruity",
+        "github-dark",
+        "gruvbox-dark",
+        "gruvbox-light",
+        "igor",
+        "inkpot",
+        "lightbulb",
+        "lilypond",
+        "lovelace",
+        "manni",
+        "material",
+        "monokai",
+        "murphy",
+        "native",
+        "nord-darker",
+        "nord",
+        "one-dark",
+        "paraiso-dark",
+        "paraiso-light",
+        "pastie",
+        "perldoc",
+        "rainbow_dash",
+        "rrt",
+        "sas",
+        "solarized-dark",
+        "solarized-light",
+        "staroffice",
+        "stata-dark",
+        "stata-light",
+        "tango",
+        "trac",
+        "vim",
+        "vs",
+        "xcode",
+        "zenburn",
+    ]
 
+    class FormatterKwargs(TypedDict, total=False):
+        style: KnownStyle | str
+        full: bool
+        title: str
+        encoding: str
+        outencoding: str
 
-def get_text_char_format(
-    style: dict[str, QtGui.QTextCharFormat],
-) -> QtGui.QTextCharFormat:
-    text_char_format = QtGui.QTextCharFormat()
-    if hasattr(text_char_format, "setFontFamilies"):
-        text_char_format.setFontFamilies(["monospace"])
-    else:
-        text_char_format.setFontFamily("monospace")
-    if style.get("color"):
-        text_char_format.setForeground(QtGui.QColor(f"#{style['color']}"))
 
-    if style.get("bgcolor"):
-        text_char_format.setBackground(QtGui.QColor(style["bgcolor"]))
+MONO_FAMILIES = [
+    "Menlo",
+    "Courier New",
+    "Courier",
+    "Monaco",
+    "Consolas",
+    "Andale Mono",
+    "Source Code Pro",
+    "Ubuntu Mono",
+    "monospace",
+]
 
+
+# inspired by  https://github.com/Vector35/snippets/blob/master/QCodeEditor.py
+# (MIT license) and
+# https://pygments.org/docs/formatterdevelopment/#html-3-2-formatter
+def get_text_char_format(style: _StyleDict) -> QTextCharFormat:
+    """Return a QTextCharFormat object based on the given Pygments `_StyleDict`.
+
+    style will likely have these keys:
+    - color: str | None
+    - bold: bool
+    - italic: bool
+    - underline: bool
+    - bgcolor: str | None
+    - border: str | None
+    - roman: bool | None
+    - sans: bool | None
+    - mono: bool | None
+    - ansicolor: str | None
+    - bgansicolor: str | None
+    """
+    text_char_format = QTextCharFormat()
+    if style.get("mono"):
+        text_char_format.setFontFamilies(MONO_FAMILIES)
+    if color := style.get("color"):
+        text_char_format.setForeground(QColor(f"#{color}"))
+    if bgcolor := style.get("bgcolor"):
+        text_char_format.setBackground(QColor(f"#{bgcolor}"))
     if style.get("bold"):
-        text_char_format.setFontWeight(QtGui.QFont.Bold)
+        text_char_format.setFontWeight(QFont.Weight.Bold)
     if style.get("italic"):
         text_char_format.setFontItalic(True)
     if style.get("underline"):
         text_char_format.setFontUnderline(True)
-
-    # TODO find if it is possible to support border style.
-
+    # if style.get("border"):
+    # ...
     return text_char_format
 
 
 class QFormatter(Formatter):
-    def __init__(self, **kwargs):
+    def __init__(self, **kwargs: Unpack[FormatterKwargs]) -> None:
         super().__init__(**kwargs)
-        self.data: list[QtGui.QTextCharFormat] = []
-        self._style = {name: get_text_char_format(style) for name, style in self.style}
+        self.data: list[QTextCharFormat] = []
+        style = cast("pygments.style.StyleMeta", self.style)
+        self._style: Mapping[_TokenType, QTextCharFormat]
+        self._style = {token: get_text_char_format(style) for token, style in style}
 
-    def format(self, tokensource, outfile):
+    def format(
+        self, tokensource: Sequence[tuple[_TokenType, str]], outfile: Any
+    ) -> None:
         """Format the given token stream.
 
-        `outfile` is argument from parent class, but
-        in Qt we do not produce string output, but QTextCharFormat, so it needs to be
-        collected using `self.data`.
+        When Qt calls the highlightBlock method on a `CodeSyntaxHighlight` object,
+        `highlight(text, self.lexer, self.formatter)`, which trigger pygments to call
+        this method.
+
+        Normally, this method puts output into `outfile`, but in Qt we do not produce
+        string output; instead we collect QTextCharFormat objects in `self.data`, which
+        can be used to apply formatting in the `highlightBlock` method that triggered
+        this method.
         """
         self.data = []
-
+        null = QTextCharFormat()
         for token, value in tokensource:
             # using get method to workaround not defined style for plain token
             # https://github.com/pygments/pygments/issues/2149
-            self.data.extend(
-                [self._style.get(token, QtGui.QTextCharFormat())] * len(value)
-            )
+            self.data.extend([self._style.get(token, null)] * len(value))
+
+
+class CodeSyntaxHighlight(QSyntaxHighlighter):
+    """A syntax highlighter for code using Pygments.
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    parent : QTextDocument | QObject | None
+        The parent object. Usually a QTextDocument.  To use this class with a
+        QTextArea, pass in `text_area.document()`.
+    lang : str
+        The language of the code to highlight. This should be a string that
+        Pygments recognizes, e.g. 'python', 'pytb', 'cpp', 'java', etc.
+    theme : KnownStyle | str
+        The name of the Pygments style to use. For a complete list of available
+        styles, use `pygments.styles.get_all_styles()`.
+
+    Examples
+    --------
+    ```python
+    from qtpy.QtWidgets import QTextEdit
+    from superqt.utils import CodeSyntaxHighlight
+
+    text_area = QTextEdit()
+    highlighter = CodeSyntaxHighlight(text_area.document(), "python", "monokai")
+
+    # then manually apply the background color to the text area.
+    palette = text_area.palette()
+    bgrd_color = QColor(self._highlight.background_color)
+    palette.setColor(QPalette.ColorRole.Base, bgrd_color)
+    text_area.setPalette(palette)
+    ```
+    """
 
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        parent: SupportsDocumentAndPalette | QTextDocument | QObject | None,
+        lang: str,
+        theme: KnownStyle | str = "default",
+    ) -> None:
+        self._doc_parent: SupportsDocumentAndPalette | None = None
+        if (
+            parent
+            and not isinstance(parent, QTextDocument)
+            and hasattr(parent, "document")
+            and callable(parent.document)
+            and isinstance(doc := parent.document(), QTextDocument)
+        ):
+            if hasattr(parent, "palette") and hasattr(parent, "setPalette"):
+                self._doc_parent = cast("SupportsDocumentAndPalette", parent)
+            parent = doc
 
-class CodeSyntaxHighlight(QtGui.QSyntaxHighlighter):
-    def __init__(self, parent, lang, theme):
         super().__init__(parent)
+        self.setLanguage(lang)
+        self.setTheme(theme)
+
+    def setTheme(self, theme: KnownStyle | str) -> None:
+        """Set the theme for the syntax highlighting.
+
+        This should be a string that Pygments recognizes, e.g. 'monokai', 'solarized'.
+        Use `pygments.styles.get_all_styles()` to see a list of available styles.
+        """
         self.formatter = QFormatter(style=theme)
+        if self._doc_parent is not None:
+            palette = self._doc_parent.palette()
+            bgrd = QColor(self.background_color)
+            palette.setColor(QPalette.ColorRole.Base, bgrd)
+            self._doc_parent.setPalette(palette)
+
+        self.rehighlight()
+
+    def setLanguage(self, lang: str) -> None:
+        """Set the language for the syntax highlighting.
+
+        This should be a string that Pygments recognizes, e.g. 'python', 'pytb', 'cpp',
+        'java', etc.
+        """
         try:
             self.lexer = get_lexer_by_name(lang)
-        except ClassNotFound:
-            self.lexer = find_lexer_class(lang)()
+        except ClassNotFound as e:
+            if cls := find_lexer_class(lang):
+                self.lexer = cls()
+            else:
+                raise ValueError(f"Could not find lexer for language {lang!r}.") from e
 
     @property
-    def background_color(self):
-        return self.formatter.style.background_color
+    def background_color(self) -> str:
+        style = cast("pygments.style.StyleMeta", self.formatter.style)
+        return style.background_color
 
-    def highlightBlock(self, text):
+    def highlightBlock(self, text: str | None) -> None:
         # dirty, dirty hack
-        # The core problem is that pygemnts by default use string streams,
+        # The core problem is that pygments by default use string streams,
         # that will not handle QTextCharFormat, so we need use `data` property to
         # work around this.
-        highlight(text, self.lexer, self.formatter)
-        for i in range(len(text)):
-            self.setFormat(i, 1, self.formatter.data[i])
+        if text:
+            highlight(text, self.lexer, self.formatter)
+            for i in range(len(text)):
+                self.setFormat(i, 1, self.formatter.data[i])