NAME

Swagger2::Markdown - DEPRECATED convert a Swagger2 spec to various markdown formats

VERSION

9.99

DEPRECATION WARNING

The Swagger2 distribution is no longer actively maintained. Ergo, this distribution is no longer actively maintained. If you would like to create an OpenAPI2::Markdown then please feel free.

If you're looking at generating API docs from your Swagger2/OpenAPI spec then take a look at https://github.com/Rebilly/ReDoc

SYNOPSIS

use strict;
use warnings;

use Swagger2;
use Swagger2::Markdown;

my $s2md = Swagger2::Markdown->new(
    swagger2 => Swagger2->new->load( $path_to_swagger_spec )
);

my $api_bp_str   = $s2md->api_blueprint;

my $markdown_str = $s2md->markdown( %pod_markdown_opts );

DESCRIPTION

This module allows you to convert a swagger specification file to API Blueprint markdown and basic markdown. Note that you may need to add x- values to your swagger config file to get better markdown output.

ATTRIBUTES

swagger2

The Swagger2 object, required at instantiation

METHODS

markdown

Returns a string of markdown using the Pod::Markdown parser - the pod string is retrieved from the ->pod method of Swagger2. As the parser is Pod::Markdown you can pass in a hash of arguments that will be passed on to the Pod::Markdown instantiation call:

my $markdown = $s2md->markdown( %pod_markdown_opts );

api_blueprint

Returns a string of markdown in API Blueprint format. Because API Blueprint is more of a documentation orientated approach there are some sections that it contains that are not present in the swagger2 spec. Refer to the API Blueprint specification for the following terms: https://github.com/apiaryio/api-blueprint/blob/master/API%20Blueprint%20Specification.md

You should add x-api-blueprint sections to the swagger2 config to define which format of API Blueprint output you want and to add extra summary and method documentation. The main layout of the API Blueprint file is defined as so in the top level of the swagger config file (YAML example here with defaults shown):

x-api-blueprint:
  resource_section: method_uri
  action_section: method_uri
  attributes: false
  simple: false
  data_structures: false

Possible values for resource_section are:

uri             - # <URI template>
name_uri        - # <identifier> [<URI template>]
method_uri      - # <HTTP request method> <URI template>
name_method_uri - # <identifier> [<HTTP request method> <URI template>]

Possible values for action_section are:

method          - ## <HTTP request method>
name_method     - ## <identifier> [<HTTP request method>]
name_method_uri - ## <identifier> [<HTTP request method> <URI template>]
method_uri      - # <HTTP request method> <URI template>

Possible values for attributes are true and false - if true the Attributes sections will be created in the API Blueprint output.

Possible values for simple are true and false - if true then only the resource section headers will be printed.

Possible values for data_structures are true and false - if true then only a Data Structures section will be output to show definitions, and those request or response parameters that reference those (using $ref) will also reference the Data Structures section.

For paths needing extra documentation you can add an x-api-blueprint section to the path like so (again, YAML example here):

paths:
  /message:
    x-api-blueprint:
      group: Messages
      summary: My Message
      description: |
        The description that will appear under the group section
      group_description: |
        The description that will appear under the resource_section header

summary and description should be self explanatory, group will make the API Blueprint output use grouping resources format

You can add examples to the parameters section of a method using x-example:

paths:
  /messages:
    get:
      parameters:
        - in: query
          ...
          x-example: 3

EXAMPLES

See the tests in this distribution - for example t/swagger/foo.yaml will map to t/markdown/foo.md when called with ->markdown and t/api_blueprint/foo.md when called with ->api_blueprint.

SEE ALSO

Swagger2

Pod::Markdown

BUGS

Certainly. This has only been tested against the example markdown files on the API Blueprint github repo, and for that i had to generate the swagger files by hand.

AUTHOR

Lee Johnson - leejo@cpan.org

LICENSE

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. If you would like to contribute documentation please raise an issue / pull request:

https://github.com/Humanstate/swagger2-markdown