Component Parameter listing in user docs

[keckler]

The section in the user docs that outlines the various types of parameters provides links to dedicated pages where more extensive listings can be found (see 353 for more info on recent updates to the links). The links for Reactor, Core, Assembly, and Block parameters all go to similar pages that provide cohesive and comprehensive listings of their respective parameters, including the names, descriptions, and units of each parameter. These tables are generated programmatically from the relevant source code.

However no such page exists for the Component Parameters, and currently the Component Parameters link goes to a table embedded in a description of the Blueprints input file. In addition to this being inconsistent with the other links, it is further undesirable because the table that it links to is a mess and does not provide the same type of information as the other tables. It is therefore desirable to create a new page for Component Parameters which is in line with the other parameter definition pages and to link to it.

In addition, once this new page is complete it would be good to remove the (incomplete) Component Parameters table from the Blueprints input file and to retool that page so that duplicate and potentially confusing information can be avoided.

[jakehader]

#353 has been merged.

[john-science]

@keckler Is this ticket complete? I see a PR has been merged for it.

[keckler]

No, I don't think this ticket has been worked at all. The PR that was merged was for a related, but separate, issue. So still wide open.

[ntouran]

In order to accomplish this ticket:

• we need to make a new rst file called doc/user/component_parameters_report.rst
• In this file, we should add code along the lines of that in here, but that loops over all subclasses of Component in the code and makes tables for each subclass found. Maybe CompositeModelType will be useful for that?

That should be all