elasticio/api-docs

Docs for elastic.io API

Introduction

The docs are generated with Slate.

How to edit/add resources documentation to existing api docs?

Api-docs for api version 2 is placed at directory source.

All documented resources located in directories source_v{API_VER}/include. You can edit existing files there or create new files (resources).

How to create new api docs for new api version?

For example, you want to create docs for new api of version 15.

1. In api-docs root, create directory called source_15 and add there Slate initial files (or copy/paste from some another source_{API_VER} directory)
2. In ./.nginx/.conf add new location directive inside server directive:

location /api-v15 {
    alias /usr/src/app/build_v15;
}

3. Add these commands at the end of RUN command at image of dependencies at ./Dockerfile:

cp -a ./source_v15 ./source && \
bundle exec middleman build && \
rm -rf ./source && \
rm -rf ./build_v15 && \
mv ./build ./build_v15

4. Add this command to the list of COPY commands at image of release at ./Dockerfile:

COPY --from=dependencies /usr/src/app/build_v15 ./build_v15

(replace v15 with your api version)

How to customize api docs for a special customer?

In case the api-docs have to be "re-branded" for a special customer, there are a few build-arguments which point by default to elastic.io original values:

• toc_footer: The text or HTML-Fragment displayed at the bottom of the Table of Contents (default: Link to sign-up for a developer key)
• api_base_url: Url of the customers API (default: https://api.elastic.io)
• product_name: Name of this API product (default: elastic.io)
• logo_url: URL to refer the customers logo (default: https://app.elastic.io/img/logo.svg)
• repo_name: Name of github repository name (default: elasticio)
• docs_url: Link to the main documentation (default: http://docs.elastic.io/docs)
• favicon_url: Link to the favicon (default: https://app.elastic.io/favicon.ico)

So a complete build for a customer overwriting everything may be e.g.:

docker build -t apidocs:telekom \
        --build-arg "toc_footer=Some Footer Text" \
        --build-arg "api_base_url=http://api.customer.org" \
        --build-arg "product_name=Customer API Name" \
        --build-arg "logo_url=https://customer.logo.url/svg-image.svg" \
        --build-arg "repo_name=customer-repo" \
        --build-arg "favicon_url=https://favicon.url/favicon.ico"
        .

How to check, what is in the master

1. Run the api-docs:

docker run --rm -p 8000:8000 -d elasticio/api-docs:master

2. Open in your browser: http://localhost:8000/

3. Ensure that everything is ok.

4. Stop the api-docs:

docker stop api-doc-master

All docker builds could be checked here.

How to build and see api-docs static website locally?

1. Using Docker

1. Build docker image:

docker build -t api-docs .

2. Run container of newly built docker image (for example, at port 8081)

docker run --rm -p 8081:8000 -d api-docs

3. Access docs for api version at localhost:8081

2. "Manually"

1. Install required tools

   apt-get update && \
       apt-get install -y ruby rubygems ruby-dev build-essential && \
       gem install bundler && \
       bundle install
   

2. Create directory source and paste there files from source_{SOME_API_VER}
3. Run

   bundle exec middleman build
   

This command will create directory build with static website files.

4. Open build/index.html in browser