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Welcome to DocBox!

DocBox is a JavaDoc-style documentation generator for your CFML codebase based on Mark Mandel's ColdDoc project.

Docs | Github | Ortus Community

FEATURES

• Read JavaDoc comment blocks
• Document your class API - components, methods, and properties
• Generate HTML documentation
• Generate machine-readable JSON
• generate XMI file which can be converted to a UML diagram

SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

• Lucee 5+
• ColdFusion 2016+

Usage

Use the DocBox library to generate API docs from your CFC files. Install Docbox with CommandBox like so:

box install docbox

Standalone Application

If you want to use DocBox for document generation in your CFML application, then just drop it into any location and create a /docbox mapping to it. You will then instantiate the DocBox generator class with a strategy and properties for the strategy.

// use custom strategy found at class.path
docbox = new docbox.DocBox( strategy="class.path", properties={} );

// create with HTML strategy
docbox = new docbox.DocBox(
  strategy = "HTML",
  properties = {
    projectTitle="My Docs",
    outputDir="#expandPath( '/docs' )#"
  }
);

Generating Docs

To generate the documentation you will then execute the generate() method on the DocBox object and pass in the following parameters:

Generate Params

• source : A path to the source location or an array of structs of locations that must have a dir and mapping key on it.
• mapping : The base mapping for the folder source. Used only if source is a path
• excludes : A regular expression that will be evaluated against all CFCs sent for documentation. If the regex matches the CFC name and path then the CFC will be excluded from documentation.

docbox.generate( source="/my/path", mapping="coldbox" );

docbox.generate(
    source  = "#expandPath( '/docbox' )#",
    mapping = "docbox",
    excludes = "tests"
);

Once the generation finalizes, you will see your beautiful docs!

Available Strategies & Properties

• HTML - default
  • projectTitle : The HTML title
  • outputDir : The output directory
• JSON
  • projectTitle : The HTML title
  • outputDir : The output directory
• XMI
  • outputFile : The output file

CommandBox Command

There is a related project you can install which wraps up the DocBox library in a Custom CLI command so you can generate API docs from the command line.

box install commandbox-docbox

Read more here: https://github.com/Ortus-Solutions/commandbox-docbox

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LICENSE

Apache License, Version 2.0.

BUGS + NEW FEATURES

Please use our Jira instance to create bugs and new feature issues: https://ortussolutions.atlassian.net/projects/DOCBOX

CREDITS & CONTRIBUTIONS

Thanks to Mark Mandel for allowing us to fork his project.

I THANK GOD FOR HIS WISDOM FOR THIS PROJECT

THE DAILY BREAD

"I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father, but by me (JESUS)" Jn 14:1-12

Have Questions?

Come find us on the CFML Slack (#box-products channel) and ask us there. We'd be happy to help!

Ortus Community

Join us in our Ortus Community and become a valuable member of this project https://community.ortussolutions.com/c/communities/docbox/17. We are looking forward to hearing from you!