docs-matrix-spec/scripts

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

[1] http://swagger.io/ [2] https://nixos.org/nix/