Smart-Doc Gradle Plugin

Introduce

smart-doc-gradle-plugin is a gradle plugin developed by the smart-doc official team. This plugin is available from smart-doc 1.8.6. Using smart-doc-gradle-plugin makes it easier to integrate smart-doc into your project, and integration is more lightweight. You no longer need to write unit tests in your project to Start smart-doc to scan source code analysis and generate API documents. You can run the gradle command directly or click on the preset goal of the smart-doc-maven-plugin in the IDE to generate API documentation. smart-doc-gradle-plugin will also make smart-doc's ability to generate API documentation more powerful. About smart-doc

Best Practice

smart-doc + Torna form an industry-leading document generation and management solution, using smart-doc to complete Java source code analysis and extract annotations to generate API documents without intrusion, and automatically push the documents to the Torna enterprise-level interface document management platform.

Getting started

Add plugin

Using the plugins DSL:

plugins {
  id "com.ly.smart-doc" version "[latest]"
}

Using legacy plugin application:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    maven {
      url "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/"
    }
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "com.ly.smart-doc:smart-doc-gradle-plugin:[latest]"
  }
}

apply plugin: "com.ly.smart-doc"

Plugin options

Option	Default value	Description
configFile	src/main/resources/default.json
exclude		exclude artifact,usage:exclude 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
include		Let the plugin download the specified java lib source,usage:include 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'

Example setting of options:

smartdoc {
    configFile = file("src/main/resources/default.json")
    
    // exclude example
    // exclude artifact
    exclude 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
    // exclude artifact use pattern
    exclude 'org.springframework.boot.*'
    // You can use the include configuration to let the plugin automatically load the specified source.
    // include example
    include 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
}

For multi-module gradle projects, if you do not want to configure in each module, you can put the smart-doc plugin related configuration into subprojects.

subprojects{
    apply plugin: 'com.github.shalousun.smart-doc'
    smartdoc {
        //
        configFile = file("src/main/resources/smart-doc.json")
        // exclude artifact
        exclude 'org.springframework.boot:xx'
        exclude 'org.springframework.boot:ddd'
        // You can use the include configuration to let the plugin automatically load the specified source.
        // include example
        include 'org.springframework.boot:spring-boot-starter-tomcat'
    }
}

Create a json config

Create a json configuration file in your project. If it is multiple modules, put them in the modules that need to generate documents. The smart-doc-gradle-plugin plugin will use this configuration information. For example, create /src/main/resources/smart-doc.json in the project. The configuration contents are as follows.

Minimize configuration:

{
   "allInOne": true, // whether to merge documents into one file, generally recommended as true
   "isStrict": false,//If the strict mode is set to true, Smart-doc forces that the public method in each interface in the code has a comment.
   "outPath": "/src/main/resources" //Set the api document output path.
}

Only three configuration items are required to use the smart-doc-gradle-plugin to generate API documentation. In fact, only outPath must be configured.

Detailed configuration content:

smart-doc provides a lot of configuration options. For more configuration options, please refer to the official documentation

Generated document

Use Gradle command

// Generate html
gradle smartDocRestHtml
// Generate markdown
gradle smartDocRestMarkdown
// Generate adoc
gradle smartDocRestAdoc
// Generate postman collection
gradle smartDocPostman
// Generate Open Api 3.0+
gradle smartDocOpenApi
// Generate document and send to Torna
gradle tornaRest

// For Apache Dubbo Rpc
gradle smartDocRpcHtml
// Generate markdown
gradle smartDocRpcMarkdown
// Generate adoc
gradle smartDocRpcAdoc

Use In IntelliJ IDEA

On Use IntelliJ IDE, if you have added smart-doc-gradle-plugin to the project, you can directly find the plugin smart-doc plugin and click to generate API documentation.

Generated document example

Interface header rendering

Request parameter example rendering

Response parameter example renderings

Building

you can build with the following commands. (Java 1.8 is required to build the master branch)

// build and publish to local
gradle publishToMavenLocal
// build and publish to nexus
gradle publish

Other reference

Smart-doc manual

Who is using

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