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README.md
Generating the HTML for the specification
Requirements:
- docutils (for converting RST to HTML)
- Jinja2 (for templating)
- PyYAML (for reading YAML files)
Nix[2] users can enter an environment with the appropriate tools and
dependencies available by invoking nix-shell contrib/shell.nix in this
directory.
To generate the complete specification along with supporting documentation, run: python gendoc.py
The output of this will be inside the "scripts/gen" folder.
Matrix.org only ("gen" folder has matrix.org tweaked pages): ./matrix-org-gendoc.sh /path/to/matrix.org/includes/nav.html
Generating the Swagger documentation
Swagger[1] is a framework for representing RESTful APIs. We use it to generate interactive documentation for our APIs.
Swagger UI reads a JSON description of the API. To generate this file from the
YAML files in the api folder, run:
./dump-swagger.py
By default, dump-swagger will write to scripts/swagger/api-docs.json.
To make use of the generated file, there are a number of options:
- It can be uploaded from your filesystem to an online editor/viewer such as http://editor.swagger.io/
- You can run a local HTTP server by running
./swagger-http-server.py, and then view the documentation via an online viewer; for example, at http://petstore.swagger.io/?url=http://localhost:8000/api-docs.json - You can host the swagger UI yourself:
- download the latest release from https://github.com/swagger-api/swagger-ui
- copy the contents of the 'dist' directory alongside
api-docs.json - View the UI via your browser at http://<hostname>?url=api-docs.json