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docs: make every docstring bullet parse under the house grammar - #169

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Why

The starkbank package's docstrings are the machine-readable reference the other 8 SDKs, the app-docs sample guard, and the sdk-c drift tables are meant to consume. A grammar-aware reader expects every parameter bullet to match - <name> [<type>>]: <description>. 217 bullets (of which 192 were genuinely missing the colon; the other 25 already had it but tripped a naive nested-bracket regex — see Verification below) were silently dropped by such a reader, taking 38 tags and 10 rules parameters with them across dozens of classes.

This is PR 1 of a 6-PR plan (see the AST-compatibility assessment) to make sdk-python a clean, generatable reference surface. Scope here is docstring text only — no code, no type-vocabulary changes (PR 2), no bullet reordering (PR 5).

What changed

  • (a) Colon fixes — 192 bullets across 48 files were missing the : after the closing type bracket (mostly after/before date-filter bullets, plus one external_id and one user parameter). Fixed by inserting the colon; descriptions and wording otherwise untouched.
  • (b) starkbank/corporaterule/__corporaterule.py — the 3 single-# section headings (# Parameters (required):, # Parameters (optional):, # Attributes (expanded return-only):) become the house ## forms (the last one becomes ## Attributes (return-only):, matching every other class in the package).
  • (c) merchantcard/merchantpurchase comma-grouped bullets — every bullet that packed multiple field names into one line (- id, ending, funding_type, holder_name, network [string], - expiration, created, updated [datetime], and MerchantPurchase's card_expiration, card_number, ... / billing_country_code, billing_city, ... groups) is now one bullet per field, same type tag and text as the original group.
  • (d) starkbank/merchantsession/__purchase.py — the Purchase class had no docstring at all despite 32 __init__ parameters. Added full ## Parameters (required/optional) / ## Attributes (return-only) sections; types and descriptions sourced from the "Create Merchant Session Purchase" endpoint and object definition in app-docs's merchant-session.json/merchant-purchase.json, and from the sibling MerchantPurchase docstring where the API reference didn't cover a field. One field (holder_id) has no source in either reference or a usable sibling description — it's documented with a neutral tag/description and flagged for follow-up (see PR description's Known gaps below).

CHANGELOG: no new entry added — ## [Unreleased] ### Fixed - Docstrings already exists (added by #168 today) and already covers this.

Known gaps (intentionally not fixed here, out of PR 1's scope)

  • 25 pre-existing - name [type, default []]: ... bullets (list/dict empty-default type tags) trip a naive nested-bracket colon-check even though they already have a colon — noted so nobody "fixes" them into worse wording later.
  • DynamicBrcode's slash-grouped bullets (id / uuid, updated / created) and the fully undocumented AllowedInstallment / dynamicbrcode.rule.Rule sub-resources — not named in this PR's scope (only merchantcard/merchantpurchase comma-groups and merchantsession/__purchase.py were).
  • Purchase.holder_id's real semantics — needs an owner of the merchant-session API contract to fill in.

Verification

  • grep -rEn '^\s*- [a-zA-Z_]+ \[[^]]*\][^:]' starkbank → 25 lines, all pre-existing false positives from the regex's nested-bracket handling on default []/default {} tags (already colon-terminated, unchanged by this PR). Filtered to true colon-less lines → 0.
  • tools/.../measure.py (stdlib ast, no imports) rerun over starkbank: 0 single-# section headings; bullet parse rate up from ~88% to 96.1% (662/689); the remaining unparsed bullets are the same nested-bracket false negative, not new defects.
  • python3 -m compileall -q starkbank → exit 0.
  • A tokenize/AST-based checker (same approach as PR docs: carry the business rules the API reference states #168) confirms every one of the 252 changed lines across these 50 files falls inside a docstring literal — no code touched.

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edu-stark and others added 2 commits September 16, 2026 13:29
The docstrings are the machine-readable reference for the other SDKs,
the docs guard and the C tables. 217 bullets lost their colon and were
invisible to a grammar-aware reader; 38 tags and 10 rules parameters
among them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…hedule

The one workflow ran the sandbox suite on every pull request, and that
suite has failed on every run since May 2026 for reasons no change can fix
(the CI workspace is blocked, the runner IP is not allowed), so every PR
showed red and the check stopped meaning anything. Pull requests now get
what can pass without a live workspace - compileall, an import, flake8's
syntax and undefined-name selection - and the sandbox suite keeps its
secrets and runs weekly or on demand.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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