Genie Framework API Docs Generator

This project builds the API documentation for packages in the Genie Framework. It uses Documenter.jl to generate markdown files with docstrings for objects listed in each package's src/API/ folder.

Packages Covered

The packages are listed in the main.jl script in the package_info variable. Each package has an url to download the source from, and an optional docs_site_folder field specifying the folder in the Genie docs site where the documentation should be placed.

Usage

Required Julia packages: ArgParse, Documenter, DocumenterMarkdown, LibGit2

The main script to run is main.jl. It accepts the following command-line arguments:

• --docs-site-root or -r: Root folder for docs site documentation
• --output-folder or -o: Base output folder for documentation (default: "output/")
• packages: Names of the packages to generate the documentation for (optional)

Note: You must specify either --docs-site-root OR --output-folder, but not both. If neither is specified, the default output folder "output/" will be used.

Example usage:

julia main.jl --docs-site-root "/path/to/docs/site" Genie Stipple

This will generate documentation for the Genie and Stipple packages and place it in the appropriate subdirectories of the specified docs site root.

Alternatively:

julia main.jl --output-folder "/path/to/output" Genie Stipple

This will generate documentation for the Genie and Stipple packages and place it in the specified output folder.

How It Works

1. The script clones or updates the specified package repositories.
2. It modifies the make.jl file in each package's docs folder to use DocumenterMarkdown.
3. It runs the modified make.jl to generate the documentation.
4. The generated documentation is processed to format warnings and create a _dir.yml file.
5. The processed documentation is copied to the specified output location (either within the docs site structure or to the specified output folder).

Note on DocumenterMarkdown

This project uses a modified version of DocumenterMarkdown.jl to generate Markdown files in the format required for the Genie Framework documentation site. The modified version is available at PGimenez/DocumenterMarkdown.jl.