Meet dox

dox publishes markdown to Confluence as HTML. For those who prefer to keep documentation in git, but need to publish to Confluence because... reasons.

Installing

go install github.com/jesselang/dox

Use

# tell dox where to publish
cat - <<EOF > .dox.yaml
uri: https://confluence.yourcompany.com
space: DEMO
title: "title of generated root page"
browse_url_base: https://github.com/jesselang/dox/blob/master
EOF

# set DOX_USERNAME and DOX_PASSWORD to appropriate values
 export DOX_USERNAME=...
 export DOX_PASSWORD=...

# publish
dox [-v]

dox will publish all markdown files as children of a root page. Each markdown file will be modified with a dox header. Be sure to commit .dox.yaml and the modified markdown in your source code management.

dox Header

All markdown files should have a dox header. The dox header is a single line comment at the top of source files that contains a comma separated list of items. The items include a page ID and optional source directives.

All published pages will have the page ID included in the dox header.

<!-- dox: 1234567890 -->

Source Directives

Source directives allow the user to control how files are published. They are defined as items in the comma separated list in the dox header.

<!-- dox: 1234567890, <directive>, <directive> -->

Ignore Directive

If a file should not be published, use the ignore directive. The ignore directive should be the only item in the dox header.

<!-- dox: ignore -->

Omit Notice Directive

By default, dox adds a notice at the top of each published page stating that modifications to the page should be done to the source file. This notice can be omitted.

<!-- dox: 1234567890, omit-notice -->

Relative Linking

Websites like github allow markdown files to relatively link to other files in the repository. dox will try to replicate this functionality by changing relative links it finds in pages to be published.

If the relative link points to a dox source file, it will change that link to the URL for that published page (currently limited to Confluence). Otherwise, dox will change the link to the file's browse URL using browse_url_base.

browse_url_base supports formatting using the %s verb:

# dox appends '/%s'
browse_url_base: https://github.com/jesselang/dox/blob/master

browse_url_base: https://othersourcesite.com/repo-base/browse/%s?format=raw

Roadmap

• Improve go-confluence error handling
• Media files
• dox update updates already published files without source modifications
• dox init to create initial config
• dox add to initially publish new files
• dox ignore to ignore files
• Consider managing a manifest file in repo using UUIDs instead of confluence page ID

Developing

dox requires Go 1.11 modules or vgo. Clone the repo outside of your GOPATH, and use go build.