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This tool is meant to handle management of remote assets that should be included in source. It was purpose built for the MongoDB Documentation team.

TLDR

DOCURL --help

What it does

DOCURL will read declared assets of any type and download them. Assets are declared in an assets.toml file.

By default, the script opens the assets.toml file in the same directory as the command is run. To specify a different file, specify the relative path to it by using --file (or -f) option as shown in the following example:

docurl fetch --file relative/path/to/my-assets.toml

Note: The source and output paths are always relative to where you run DOCURL rather than the path to the toml file.

Repository Asset Type

The repository type is the only special purpose type. It contains information about a source repository, and is meant to track versions. DOCURL can check if the version listed is out of date with the latest release version, and auto-update the version in the assets list.

Here's an example:

[[assets.sources.repository]]
repo = "mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver"
version = "r3.6.6"
targets = [
    { source = "src/mongocxx/test/transactions.cpp", output = "cpp-transactions.cpp" },
    { source = "examples/mongocxx/with_transaction.cpp", output = "cpp-with-transaction.cpp" },
]

DOCURL will check the version above against the release version, and update if it is outdated and instructed to do so. It will fetch the resources in the targets array at that tag.

Source and Output

DOCURL fetches the assets from source (after assembling the correct raw GitHub url), and will output to a file named whatever is in output. The directory the file is put in is declared in the assets.output_paths entry:

[assets.output_paths]
repository_path = "source/driver-examples"
image_path = "source/images"
raw_path = "source/raw"

Other Types

DOCURL supports fetching any arbitrary resource. Add resources to assets.sources.x where x is the resource type that has a corresponding entry in assets.output_paths.

These resource types have two keys, source and output that tell DOCURL where to fetch the asset and the filename to save it as. Output paths are calculated on static lookup - an asset of type assets.sources.x must have a corresponding entry in assets.output_paths of x_path.

[assets.output_paths]
repository_path = "source/driver-examples"
image_path = "source/images"
raw_path = "source/raw"

[[assets.sources.repository]]
repo = "mongodb/mongo-python-driver"
version = "4.1.1"
targets = [
    { source = "test/test_examples.py", output = "test_examples.py" },
]

[[assets.sources.image]]
source = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mongodb/docs-java/master/source/includes/figures/atlas_connection_select_cluster.png"
output = "atlas_connection_select_cluster.png"

[[assets.sources.raw]]
source = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mongodb/mongo-cxx-driver/master/src/mongocxx/test/versioned_api.cpp"
output = "cpp-versioned_api.cpp"

Developing

For testing the package locally, run the following commands to set up a virtualenv and install the requirements:

python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt

Then, you can run the code by running the following command:

python -m src.main <commands>

Releasing

Increment the version in setup.py.

Releases are published automatically when a tag is pushed to GitHub.

# Set next version number

   export RELEASE=x.x.x

# Create tags

   git commit --allow-empty -m "Release $RELEASE"
   git tag -a $RELEASE -m "Version $RELEASE"

# Push

   git push upstream --tags