design-study/flask-docs

Adds Docs support to Flask.

Flask-Docs

Adds Docs support to Flask.

Features

• Automatic generation of markdown documents
• Support Flask-RESTful
• Support for generating offline documents

Usage

Here is an example:

from flask import Flask
from flask_docs import ApiDoc

app = Flask(__name__)

# Using CDN
# app.config['API_DOC_CDN'] = True

# Disable document pages
# app.config['API_DOC_ENABLE'] = False

# Api Document needs to be displayed
app.config['API_DOC_MEMBER'] = ['api', 'platform']

# Restful API documents to be excluded
app.config['RESTFUL_API_DOC_EXCLUDE'] = []

ApiDoc(app)

How to add markdown documents to the code:

@@@
# Write your markdown document here
@@@

Run in /docs/api

Api and document pages

@api.route('/add_data', methods=['POST'])
def add_data():
    """Add some data

    Add some data in this routing

    Args:
        pass

    Returns:
        pass
    """
    return jsonify({'api': 'add data'})

@api.route('/del_data', methods=['POST'])
def del_data():
    """Del some data

    @@@
    #### args

    | args | nullable | type | remark |
    |--------|--------|--------|--------|
    |    title    |    false    |    string   |    blog title    |
    |    name    |    true    |    string   |    person's name    |

    #### return
    - ##### json
    > {"msg": "success", "code": 200}
    @@@
    """
    return jsonify({'api': 'del data'})

@platform.route('/get_something', methods=['GET'])
def get_something():
    """
    @@@
    #### example
    ```
    import requests
    url='http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/get_something'
    try:
        print requests.get(url).text
    except:
        pass
    ```
    @@@
    """
    return jsonify({'platform': 'get something'})

Flask-RESTful Api and document pages

from flask_restful import Resource, Api

class TodoList(Resource):
    """Manage todolist"""

    def post(self):
        """Submission of data

        Args:
            pass

        Returns:
            pass

        """
        return {'todos': 'post todolist'}

    def get(self):
        """
        @@@
        #### args

        | args | nullable | type | remark |
        |--------|--------|--------|--------|
        |    id    |    false    |    int   |    todo id    |

        #### return
        - ##### json
        > {...}
        @@@
        """
        return {'todos': 'get todolist'}


restful_api.add_resource(TodoList, '/todolist')

Examples

Complete example

Installation

pip install Flask-Docs

Reference

falsk_api_doc