Ensure configuration settings are documented (#11674)

* Export configuration keys to JSON

* Support rendering of config options in docs

* Check for missing config settings

* Simplify macro

* Initial tests

* Fix collisions

* Updates

* Ensure values are stringified

* Ensure null values are exported correctly

* Refactor database config

- Observability on the config settings

* More docs updates

* Updates

* Add observability of cache settings

* More updates

* Observability

* Set env config for RTD

* Revert RTD config file

- Handled by ENV VAR on RTD account

* Visibility on background worker settings

* Tweaks

* Tweaks

* Split tracing settings out into separate file

- Improved discovery
- declutter settings.py

* Cleanup LDAP settings

* Social providers docs

* More updates

* Refactor ldap setup into own module

* Tweaks

* Formatting tweaks

* Tweak logic

* Fix INVENTREE_SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE setting

* Fix wrapping

* Add custom default

tasks.py

@@ -1864,8 +1864,13 @@ def export_definitions(c, basedir: str = ''):
     """Export various definitions."""
     if basedir != '' and basedir.endswith('/') is False:
         basedir += '/'
+
     base_path = Path(basedir, 'generated').resolve()
 
+    if not base_path.exists():
+        info(f'Creating export directory: {base_path}')
+        base_path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
     filenames = [
         base_path.joinpath('inventree_settings.json'),
         base_path.joinpath('inventree_tags.yml'),
@@ -2298,12 +2303,19 @@ def doc_schema(c):
     help={
         'address': 'Host and port to run the server on (default: localhost:8080)',
         'compile_schema': 'Compile the API schema documentation first (default: False)',
+        'export_settings': 'Export settings definitions before starting the server (default: True)',
     }
 )
-def docs_server(c, address='localhost:8080', compile_schema=False):
+def docs_server(
+    c,
+    address='localhost:8080',
+    compile_schema: bool = False,
+    export_settings: bool = True,
+):
     """Start a local mkdocs server to view the documentation."""
     # Extract settings definitions
-    export_definitions(c, basedir='docs')
+    if export_settings:
+        export_definitions(c, basedir='docs')
 
     if compile_schema:
         doc_schema(c)