leejt489 / sails-apidocs

Automatically generate documentation for a Sails.js API from Sails blueprints and inline code documentation
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Lack of proper documentation #1

Open anandmahajan opened 9 years ago

anandmahajan commented 9 years ago

Please provide documentation to configure this module.

wchopite commented 9 years ago

Any documentation to configure and use this module?

anandmahajan commented 9 years ago

Yes

leejt489 commented 9 years ago

Hi sorry the documentation is pretty lacking. I've been meaning to get around to cleaning it up to make it more useful and adding some features, but I won't be able to really over the next month as I'm currently travelling with sporadic internet.

If I remember correctly there are some comments in the source code that should be helpful.

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leejt489 commented 9 years ago

Essentially the program takes a config object. in lib/config.js there are some defaults to specify where to look for your API files (defaults to sails structure). You can set the 'exclude' option to an array of strings of API resources to exclude from the API.

It compiles using dox and doxx style jshint markup, so checking those out is a good place to start.

Sorry I can't be of more help right now, thanks for checking out the project, and I'll put some time into next month!

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anandmahajan commented 9 years ago

OK thx. I will try that!

armellarcier commented 9 years ago

Hi! Thanks for this but unfortunately I could not even figure how to hook up the module with sails and gen anything... Should I add a task to call up the module?

leejt489 commented 9 years ago

I just call it from my bootstrap file, using a 'require' statement to load the model.

I just got back from a field assignment. I'll try and devote some time to this next week.

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drewlio commented 9 years ago

EDITED

Maybe this will help someone. I put the following in my ./config/bootstrap.js. I like to leave everything in node_modules unmodified, so this is what I did:

require('sails-apidocs')({
        template: process.cwd() + '/lib/sails-apidocs-views/template.jade',
        targetDir: process.cwd() + '/assets/docs/api'
});

It runs and generates output, but no documentation is extracted. Briefly looking through index.js it seems to process routes, but not blueprints, controllers and models. Also, any routes are skipped near the comment: TODO: Parse the string.

Any other ideas would be welcome.