auto-api-dog

Easily document your REST APIs - auto-api-dog is a CLI tool that generates your api-dog documentation file from your comments

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Table of Contents

• Install
• Usage
• Format
  • Fields
  • Notes ⚠️
• Options

Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install -g auto-api-dog

Usage

// package.json

{
  "scripts": {
    "doc": "auto-api-dog"
  }
}

Then :

$ npm run doc

Running the command above will output api.apidog.json that you can import into the api-dog application to have it generate your API documentation.

Format

Below is the document comment format :

/**
 * Description multi-line description
 * @name - Create A Post
 * @method POST
 * @endpoint /
 * @maintainer sina-byn
 * @status developing
 * @query {number} id the id of the post
 * 
 * @payload {object} - {
 *      "title": {
 *          "en": "this is the en title",
 *          "fa": "this is the fa title"
 *      }
 * }
 * 
 * @required {object} - {
 *      "title": {
 *         "required": true,
 *         "value": {
 *              "en": { "required": true },
 *              "fa": { "required": true }
 *         }
 *      }
 * }
 */

Visit comment parser, and JSDoc to read more about the documentation comments.

Note that if you use VS Code as your text editor it helps you with the asterisks.

Fields

Below is the table of all the fields that are defined for the cli. Make sure to read the notes below the table.

Name	Type	Default	Description
name	string	"Untitled Endpoint"	the name of the API endpoint - special syntax
method	string		API endpoint's method - must be all in uppercase letters - required
status	string	"released"	API dog status - visit api dog for more
maintainer	string		the maintainer id from the api dog project
query	Param		defines a single query parameter
header	Param		defines a single request header
cookie	Param		defines a single request cookie
payload	JSON object		defines the example payload for the request - important
required	JSON object		defines the required fields of the payload - important

Notes

• due to the JSDoc convention the name should follow `@name - {endpoint_name}` the `-` is required or the first word of the name will be ignored
• `payload` and `required`

  • defining the required without the payload will result in an error

  • payload is optional and is used to create a JSON schema and a sample request body

  • the required field optional and is used to define the required fields of the JSON schema

  • Note that generating the request body and JSON schema is a complex task, and the developer is responsible for ensuring accuracy and that the types match. For example, in some cases where payload and required do not match, you might end up with an error; in other cases, your schema might simply not include all the required fields.

• the `Param` type is a special type

{
  type: "string",
  name: "post_slug",
  description: "desc",
  required: true,
  example: "first_post",
}

Note that support for complex data types for the Param type is yet to be added.

Example

/**
 * @header {number} id the id of the post
 */

is equal to

{
  type: "number",
  name: "id",
  description: "desc",
  required: true,
}

[id] : { required: false } [id=12] : { required: false, example: 12 } [!id=12] : { required: true, example: 12 }

Note that ! only works when an example is provided otherwise it will be included in the name of the param.

Options

Name	Type	Default	Description
-i, --input	string	"**/*.js"	glob pattern to match input files that have document comments
-n, --name	string	"api"	output json file name - {name}.apidog.json