needimport ignores all links between needs

[arnoox]

I have a proper needs.json containing some valid needs that are linked to each other. Now when I "needimport" this file, all needs are imported, but without links. I couldn't find a hint in the documentation, that specifies this behavior: https://sphinxcontrib-needs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/directives/needimport.html

Probably this is a bug? Or are there any other way to achieve this?

[arnoox]

Hint: I could reproduce this with version sphinx-build 3.5.3.

[danwos]

Thanks for sharing this bug report.

I can reproduce the bug for extra_links.
So links via :links: options are working for me.
They get exported to needs.json and imported back.
@arnoox: Can you confirm this?

Only for additional links (configured via needs_extra_links) I get this problem.

They are not exported to needs.json.
I changed the needs.json by hand to get the links into it.
But also need_import ignores them.

So I see two bugs here, both related to needs_extra_links:

• Needs-builder does not export them
• and need_Import does not import them.

[arnoox]

I can confirm that everything is working fine for regular :links:. They get properly exported; they also are properly imported.

In my case, the needs_extra_links:

• seem to be exported properly using sphinx-build -b needs docs/ build/
• are not imported at all using .. needimport:: path/to/needs.json

[arnoox]

Thanks for fixing!

I wanted to test this by locally installing sphinxcontrib-needs, but I failed because setup.py was apparently deprecated: so the following install steps from the README don't work anymore: python setup.py install

@danwos : could you please provide the updated install steps?

[twodrops]

@arnoox The new instructions to build from sources are here https://github.com/useblocks/sphinxcontrib-needs/blob/master/docs/contributing.rst

I guess the Readme update was missed during the Poetry migration.

@danwos Do you want to point to contributing.rst from Readme?

[danwos]

Thanks for the hint 👍 and I have updated the docs.
I think you can use pip install -e . to install from source.

[twodrops]

@danwos @arnoox
pip install -e . does not seem to work without a setup.py. I created a new issue here #241