feat: Fine-grain configuration

This change allows users to specify recursive options under `members`:

```
::: some.module
    options:
      members:
      - name: SomeName
        options:
          heading: Some Verbose Name
          members:
          - ...
```

This change also brings a refactor in how we combine default, global and
local configuration. Instead of keeping track of dictionaries to merge
them accordingly, we now chain dataclasses together, using a special
`UNSET` value to tell whether an option was set or not. Checking against
this `UNSET` value lets the chained dataclass know whether it should
try to fetch the value from previous (left/up) dataclasses.

With the following example chain:

```
{ some_option: UNSET } -> { some_option: False } -> { some_option: UNSET
}
```

...trying to get `some_option` from the chain would start with the
right-most dataclass, where `some_option` is `UNSET`. Then it would
continue on the left, and return `False` since it's not `UNSET`. The
left-most dataclass would not be checked since the value was already
returned.

This change lets us simplify templates, as we don't have to check if
we're rendering the root object anymore: the configuration options are
chained in a way that prevent options that are only relevant to the root
object to be propagated further down to members.

Issue-658: mkdocstrings/mkdocstrings#658

Author: pawamoy

scripts/griffe_extensions.py

@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@
 class CustomFields(griffe.Extension):
     """Support our custom dataclass fields."""
 
+    _custom_field_path = "mkdocstrings_handlers.python._internal.config._Field"
+
     def on_attribute_instance(
         self,
         *,
@@ -24,11 +26,11 @@ def on_attribute_instance(
         if attr.docstring:
             return
         try:
-            field: griffe.ExprCall = attr.annotation.slice.elements[1]  # type: ignore[union-attr]
+            field = attr.annotation.slice.elements[1]  # type: ignore[union-attr]
         except AttributeError:
             return
 
-        if field.canonical_path == "mkdocstrings_handlers.python._internal.config._Field":
+        if isinstance(field, griffe.ExprCall) and field.canonical_path == self._custom_field_path:
             description = next(
                 attr.value
                 for attr in field.arguments

src/mkdocstrings_handlers/python/__init__.py

@@ -1,17 +1,22 @@
 """Python handler for mkdocstrings."""
 
 from mkdocstrings_handlers.python._internal.config import (
+    UNSET,
     AutoStyleOptions,
+    ChainedOptions,
     GoogleStyleOptions,
     Inventory,
+    MembersOption,
     NumpyStyleOptions,
     PerStyleOptions,
     PythonConfig,
     PythonInputConfig,
     PythonInputOptions,
     PythonOptions,
+    RecursiveOptions,
     SphinxStyleOptions,
     SummaryOption,
+    Unset,
 )
 from mkdocstrings_handlers.python._internal.handler import PythonHandler, get_handler
 from mkdocstrings_handlers.python._internal.rendering import (
@@ -34,10 +39,13 @@
 )
 
 __all__ = [
+    "UNSET",
     "AutoStyleOptions",
     "AutorefsHook",
+    "ChainedOptions",
     "GoogleStyleOptions",
     "Inventory",
+    "MembersOption",
     "NumpyStyleOptions",
     "Order",
     "PerStyleOptions",
@@ -46,9 +54,11 @@
     "PythonInputConfig",
     "PythonInputOptions",
     "PythonOptions",
+    "RecursiveOptions",
     "SphinxStyleOptions",
     "SummaryOption",
     "Tree",
+    "Unset",
     "do_as_attributes_section",
     "do_as_classes_section",
     "do_as_functions_section",