""" This is a small script that creates the endpoint doc page. It should be evoked from the command line each time changes are made. It writes to ./documentation/docs/api_overview.md The code used in this script is the absolute minimum required to get the job done; it can be considered a crude hack at best. I am more interested in writing good documentation than making sure that the script that shits it out is politcally correct ;) """ from server import API import pydoc body = """ # How to BBJ? ## Input BBJ is interacted with entirely through POST requests, whose bodies are json objects. The endpoints, all listed below, can be contacted at the path /api/ relative to the root of where BBJ is hosted. If bbj is hosted on a server on port 80 at the root: `http://server.com/api/endpoint_here` The body of your request contains all of it's argument fields, instead of using URL parameters. As a demonstration, to call `thread_create`, it requires two arguments: `title`, and `body`. We put those argument names at the root of the json object, and their values are the info passed into the API for that spot. Your input will look like this: ```json { "title": "Hello world!!", "body": "Hi! I am exploring this cool board thing!!" } ``` And you will POST this body to `http://server.com:PORT/api/thread_create`. A few endpoints do not require any arguments. These can still be POSTed to, but the body may be completely empty or an empty json object. You can even GET these if you so choose. For all endpoints, argument keys that are not consumed by the endpoint are ignored. Posting an object with a key/value pair of `"sandwich": True` will not clog up any pipes :) In the same vein, endpoints who dont take arguments don't care if you supply them anyway. ## Output BBJ returns data in a consistently formatted json object. The base object has three keys: `data`, `usermap`, and `error`. Visualizied: ```javascript { "error": false, // boolean false or error object "data": null, // null or the requested data from endpoint. "usermap": {} // potentially empty object, maps user_ids to user objects } // If "error" is true, it looks like this: { "error": { "code": // an integer from 0 to 5, "description": // a string describing the error in detail. } "data": null // ALWAYS null if error is not false "usermap": {} // ALWAYS empty if error is not false } ``` ### data `data` is what the endpoint actually returns. The type of contents vary by endpoint and are documented below. If an endpoint says it returns a boolean, it will look like `"data": True`. If it says it returns an array, it will look like `"data": ["stuff", "goes", "here"]` ### usermap The usermap is a json object mapping user_ids within `data` to full user objects. BBJ handles users entirely by an ID system, meaning any references to them inside of response data will not include vital information like their username, or their profile information. Instead, we fetch those values from this usermap object. All of it's root keys are user_id's and their values are user objects. It should be noted that the anonymous user has it's own ID and profile object as well. ### error `error` is typically `false`. If it is __not__ false, then the request failed and the json object that `error` contains should be inspected. (see the above visualation) Errors follow a strict code system, making it easy for your client to map these responses to native exception types or signals in your language of choice. See [the full error page](errors.md) for details. """ endpoints = [ ref for name, ref in API.__dict__.items() if hasattr(ref, "exposed") ] types = { function.doctype: list() for function in endpoints } for function in endpoints: types[function.doctype].append(function) for doctype in sorted(types.keys()): body += "

\n# %s\n------\n" % doctype funcs = sorted(types[doctype], key=lambda _: _.__name__) for f in funcs: body += "## %s\n\n" % f.__name__ if f.arglist[0][0]: body += "**Arguments:**\n\n" for key, value in f.arglist: body += " * __%s__: %s\n\n" % (key, value) else: body += "_requires no arguments_" body += "\n\n" + pydoc.getdoc(f) + "\n\n" body += "\n
\n" with open("documentation/docs/api_overview.md", "w") as output: output.write(body)