autodoc: Test the signature of typing.Generic subclasses.

This test is currently failing because typing.Generic.__new__ clobbers the
real signature.

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/roots/test-ext-autodoc/target/generic_class.py b/tests/roots/test-ext-autodoc/target/generic_class.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cf4c5ed37
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/roots/test-ext-autodoc/target/generic_class.py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+from typing import TypeVar, Generic
+
+
+T = TypeVar('T')
+
+
+# Test that typing.Generic's __new__ method does not mask our class'
+# __init__ signature.
+class A(Generic[T]):
+    """docstring for A"""
+    def __init__(self, a, b=None):
+        pass
diff --git a/tests/test_ext_autodoc.py b/tests/test_ext_autodoc.py
index 90a2ec95a..e90125ba9 100644
--- a/tests/test_ext_autodoc.py
+++ b/tests/test_ext_autodoc.py
@@ -290,6 +290,22 @@ def test_format_signature(app):
         '(b, c=42, *d, **e)'
 
 
+@pytest.mark.skipif(sys.version_info < (3, 5), reason='typing is available since python3.5.')
+@pytest.mark.xfail
+@pytest.mark.sphinx('html', testroot='ext-autodoc')
+def test_autodoc_process_signature_typing_generic(app):
+    actual = do_autodoc(app, 'class', 'target.generic_class.A', {})
+
+    assert list(actual) == [
+        '',
+        '.. py:class:: A(a, b=None)',
+        '   :module: target.generic_class',
+        '',
+        '   docstring for A',
+        '',
+    ]
+
+
 def test_autodoc_process_signature_typehints(app):
     captured = []