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NAME

Text::API::Blueprint - Markdown generator for API blueprint format

VERSION

version 0.003

FUNCTIONS

Compile

Compile({
# Meta
host => 'hostname',
# Intro
name => 'title',
description => 'short introduction',
resources => [
# Resource
{
...
}
],
groups => [
# Group
name => [
# Resource
{
...
}
]
],
});

Section

Section(sub {
...
})

Invokation: Section( CodeRef $coderef, [ Int $offset = 1 ])

Increments header offset by $offset for everything executed in $coderef.

Meta

Meta();
Meta('localhost');

Invokation: Meta([ Str $host ])

FORMAT: 1A8
HOST: $host

Intro

Intro('Our API');
Intro('Our API', 'With a short introduction');

Invokation: Intro(Str $name, [ Str $description ])

# $name
$description

Concat

Concat('foo', 'bar');

Invokation: Concat( Str @blocks )

$block[0]
$block[1]
$block[2]
...

Text

Text('foo', 'bar');

Invokation: Text( Str @strings )

$string[0]
$string[1]
$string[2]
...

Code

Code('foobar');
Code('{"foo":"bar"}', 'json');

Invokation: Code(Str $code, [ Str $lang = '' ])

```$lang
$code
```

Group

Group('header', 'body');
Group('name', [
# Resource
{
...
}
]);

Invokation: Group(Str $identifier, Str|ArrayRef[HashRef|Str] $body)

If $body is an ArrayRef, every item which is a HashRef will be passed to "Resource".

# Group $identifier
$body

Resource

Resource({
...
});

Invokation: Resource(HashRef $args)

Allowed keywords for $args:

  • method, uri, identifier

    With method and uri

    ## $method $uri
    $body

    With identifier and $uri

    ## $identifier [$uri]
    $body

    With uri

    ## $uri
    $body

    Other combinations are invalid.

  • body

    If body isa CodeRef, see "Section". description, parameters, attributes, model, actions are not allowed then.

  • description

    A short introduction as a single string.

  • parameters

    See "Parameters".

  • attributes

    See "Attributes".

  • model

    See "Model".

  • actions

    Isa ArrayRef.

    See "Action".

Model

Model({
type => 'mime/type',
# Payload
...
});
Model('mime/type', 'payload');

Invokation: Model(Str $media_type, Str|HashRef $payload, [ Int $indent ]);

See "Payload" if the first and only argument is a HashRef.

+ Model ($media_type)
$payload

Schema

Schema('body');

Invokation: Schema(Str $body, [ Int $indent ])

+ Schema
$body

Attribute

Attribute('scalar', {
type => 'string',
example => 'foobar',
description => 'a text',
});
Attribute('list', {
enum => 'number',
example => 3,
description => 'a number from 1 to 5',
members => [1,2,3,4,5],
});
Attribute('hash' => [
foo => {
type => 'string',
...
},
bar => {
...
}
]);

Attributes

Attributes('reference');
Attributes([
# Attribute
name => {
...
}
]);

Action

Action({
...
});

Invokation: Action(HashRef $args)

Allowed keywords for $args:

  • identifier, method, uri

    With $identifier $method and $uri:

    ### $identifier [$method $uri]
    $body

    With $identifier and $method:

    ### $identifier [$method]
    $body

    With $method:

    ### $method
    $body

    Other combinations are invalid.

  • description

  • relation

    See "Relation".

  • parameters

    See "Parameters".

  • attributes

    See "Attributes".

  • assets

    Isa ArrayRef interpreted as a key/value paired associative list.

    The key is splited into two parts by the first whitespace, named keyword and id.

    If the value isa string, "Reference" is called with <<(keyword, id, value)>>

    If the value is anything else, "Asset" is called with <<(keyword, id, value)>>

  • requests

    See "Request_Ref" if the value isa string. See "Request" otherwise.

  • responses

    See "Response_Ref" if the value isa string. See "Response" otherwise.

Payload

Payload({
...
});

Invokation: Payload(HashRef $args)

Allowed keywords for $args:

Asset

Asset('Request', 'foo', {
type => 'mime/type',
# Payload
...
});

Invokation: Asset( Str $keyword, Str $identifier, HashRef $payload )

See "Payload" for %payload

# $keyword $identifier ($type)
$payload

Reference

Reference('Request', 'foo', 'bar');
Reference('Response', 'foo', 'bar');

Invokation: Reference(Str $keyword, Str $identifier, Str $reference)

# $keyword $identifier
[$reference][]

Request

Request('foo', { ... });

Invokation: Request(@args)

Calls "Asset"( 'Request', @args )

Request_Ref

Request_Ref('foo', 'bar');

Invokation: Request_Ref(@args)

Calls "Reference"( 'Request', @args )

Response

Response('foo', { ... });

Invokation: Response( @args )

Calls "Asset"( 'Response', @args )

Response_Ref

Response_Ref('foo', 'bar');

Invokation: Response_Ref(@args)

Calls "Reference"( 'Response', @args )

Parameters

Parameters([
foo => {
# Parameter
...
},
bar => {
# Parameter
...
}
]);

Invokation: Parameters(ArrayRef[Str|HashRef] $parameters)

For every keypair in @$parameters "Parameter"($key, $value) will be called

Parameter

Parameter('foo', {
example => 'foobar',
required => 1,
type => 'string',
shortdesc => 'a string',
longdesc => 'this is a string',
default => 'none',
});
Parameter('foo', {
example => '3',
required => 0,
enum => 'number',
shortdesc => 'an optional number',
longdesc => 'an integer between 1 and 5 (both inclusive)',
default => 1,
members => [1,2,3,4,5],
});

Invokation: Parameter( Str $name, HashRef $args )

+ $name: `$example` ($type, $required_or_optional) - $shortdesc
$longdesc
+ Default: `$default`
+ Members
+ `$key` - $value
+ ...

Headers

Headers([
FooBar => '...', # Foo-Bar
-foof => '...', # X-Foof
]);

Invokation: Headers(ArrayRef[Str] $headers)

The headers are encoded and prettified in a fancy way. See HTTP::Headers::Fancy for more information.

Body

Body('foobar');

Invokation: Body( Str $body )

+ Body
$body

Body_CODE

Body_CODE('foobar');
Body_CODE('foo', 'bar');

Invokation: Body_CODE( Str $code, Str $lang )

+ Body
```$lang
$code
```

Body_YAML

Body_YAML({ ... });
Body_YAML([ ... ]);

Invokation: Body_YAML( HashRef|ArrayRef $struct )

+ Body
```yaml
$struct
```

Body_JSON

Body_JSON({ ... });
Body_JSON([ ... ]);

Invokation: Body_JSON( HashRef|ArrayRef $struct )

+ Body
```json
$struct
```

Relation

Relation('foo');

Invokation: Relation( Str $link )

+ Relation: $link

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://github.com/zurborg/libtext-api-blueprint-perl/issues

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

David Zurborg <zurborg@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is Copyright (c) 2015 by David Zurborg.

This is free software, licensed under:

The ISC License