Installation is really easy, all you need to do is gem install!
% gem install nasldoc
Using nasldoc is fairly simple; just pass it a directory or a single file that you want to generate the documentation for. nasldoc is designed to only parse .inc files which special comment markup.
% nasldoc /opt/nessus/lib/nessus/plugins/
This will cause a directory called nasldoc/ to be created in your current directory. This directory will contain all of the generated HTML documents. After running nasldoc, open index.html inside of nasldoc/ and view the documentation.
nasldoc comments are inclosed in ## blocks and use special tags to mark items. Currently, there are only 3 tags. Tags can be added in a matter of minutes to the parser.
nasldoc supports several markup tags:
- @param - used to label named arguments to a function
- @anonparam - used to label anonymous arguments to a function
- @return - what the function returns
- @deprecated - notation for functions that shouldn't be used
- @nessus - minimum Nessus version supported
- @category - type of category for the function
- @remark - special notes or remarks
The function description block is free form text from the first ## block to the first @tag in the nasldoc body. The lines are split on the # and rejoined with spaces.
Example:
##
# An example addition function in NASL
#
# @param arg1 first number to add
# @param arg2 second number to add
#
# @return the sum of arg1 and arg2
##
function add(arg1, arg2)
{
return (arg1 + arg2);
}
If you'd like, you can provide variable type descriptions. The syntax is as follows:
##
# An example addition function in NASL
#
# @param <arg1:int> first number to add
# @param [arg2:int] second number to add
#
# @return the sum of arg1 and arg2
##
function add(arg1, arg2)
{
return (arg1 + arg2);
}
You can wrap the name:type tuple using either '[]' or '<>'.
nasldoc uses the ERB templating engine to make generating the output HTML trivial. Attached is an example of the sidebar; ruby code can be injected to help generate the layout.
Example:
<html>
<head>
<title>nasldoc</title>
<link rel = 'stylesheet' type= 'text/css' href='stylesheet.css'>
</head>
<body>
<img src='nessus.jpg' />
<br><br><br>
<ul>
<% @file_list.each_with_index do |file, i| %>
<% row_class = i % 2 == 0 ? "even" : "odd" %>
<% output_file = file.gsub(".", "_") %>
<% output_file = File.basename(file).gsub(".", "_") %>
<li class="<%= row_class %>"><a href='<%= output_file %>.html' target='content'><%= File.basename(file) %></a></li>
<% end %>
</ul>
<br><br><br>
<ul><a href='overview.html' target='content'>Home</a></ul>
</body>
</html>