coverage checking via autoapi (incompatibility with sphinx.ext.coverage)

[nyoma-diamond]

I've found autoapi to be a great alternative to autodoc/autosummary since the program I'm developing relies on external software that must be running during operation, and as a result must launched when generating documentation via autodoc/autosummary. However, autoapi does not appear to have any coverage-checking functionality like sphinx.ext.coverage. Attempting to use sphinx.ext.coverage alongside autoapi does not appear to work. In any case even if it did, sphinx.ext.coverage also shares autodoc's problem of needing to import the relevant modules, and therefore has the associated side-effects (in my case, requiring that the external software be running).

Are there any plans to implement any form of coverage checking to mimic sphinx.ext.coverage?