Links from SVG images: Detail: How to call a super method of an overwritten Tranlator?

[Volker Jaenisch]

In my patch of MsytParser I like to overwrite the standard behavior of the hmtl Translator in sphinx for the formation of the image node.

    # override only the html writer visit methods for image,

    # to react on image-link classes
    app.add_node(
        nodes.image,
        override=True,
        html=(visit_image_html, depart_image_html),

    )

This overwrite works well, the overwriting function is called.

The overwriting function is here and it should do nothing but call the original bahavior.

# This will become the overwrite

def visit_image_html(self, node: nodes.Node):
    return self.visit_image(node)

But how do I call the standard behavior? The above version leads as expected to an infinite recursion.

def visit_image_html(self, node: nodes.Node):
    return super(self).visit_image(node)

Does not work either.

Any help is truly appreciated.

Cheers,

Volker

[danwos]

I think you need to import the original "visit_image()" function first, under a different name.

Some pseudo-code, as I haven't looked into the Sphinx code to identify the correct modules:

from sphinx.images import visit_image as org_visit_image

def visit_image_html(self, node: nodes.Node):
    return org_visit_image(node)

I hope this goes in the right direction.

Cheers,
  Danielöö

[Volker Jaenisch]

Dear Danielöö!

Thank you for the hints.

> I think you need to import the original "visit_image()" function first, under a different name.

Unfortunately the function visit_image() is a member function of the HTML5-Writer class. And therfore not importable.

Cheers,

Volker