acs-api-documentation-procs.tcl

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acs-api-documentation-procs.tcl

Routines for generating API documentation.

Location:

packages/acs-api-browser/tcl/acs-api-documentation-procs.tcl
Created:

21 Jun 2000
Authors:

Jon Salz <jsalz@mit.edu>
Lars Pind <lars@arsdigita.com>

Procedures in this file

api_add_to_proc_doc (public)
api_apropos_functions (public)
api_describe_function (public)
api_get_body (public)
api_library_documentation (public)
api_proc_documentation (public)
api_proc_link (public)
api_proc_pretty_name (public)
api_proc_url (public)
api_read_script_documentation (public)
api_script_documentation (public)
api_type_documentation (public, deprecated)
apidoc::format_author (public)
apidoc::format_see (public)
apidoc::get_object_property (public)
apidoc::tcl_to_html (public)
apidoc::tclcode_to_html (public)

Detailed information

api_add_to_proc_doc (public)

 api_add_to_proc_doc -proc_name proc_name -property property \
    -value value

Add a certain value to a property in the proc doc of the specified proc.

Switches:

-proc_name (required)
name is fully qualified name without leading colons proc procs, XOTcl methods are a triple with the fully qualified class name, then proc|instproc and then the method name.
-property (required)
name of property such as "main" "testcase" "calledby" "deprecated_p" "script" "protection"
-value (required)
value of the property

Author:

Gustaf Neumann

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_add_to_proc_doc

api_apropos_functions (public)

 api_apropos_functions string

Parameters:

string (required)

Returns:
the functions in the system that contain string in their name and have been defined using ad_proc.

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_apropos_functions

api_describe_function (public)

 api_describe_function [ -format format ] proc

Describes the functions in the system that contain string and that have been defined using ad_proc. The description includes the documentation string, if any.

Switches:

-format (optional, defaults to "text/plain")

Parameters:

proc (required)

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_describe_function

api_get_body (public)

 api_get_body proc_name

This function returns the body of a Tcl proc or an XOTcl method.

Parameters:

proc_name (required)
the name spec of the proc

Returns:
body of the specified proc

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_get_body

api_library_documentation (public)

 api_library_documentation [ -format format ] path

Generates formatted documentation for a Tcl library file (just the header, describing what the library does).

Switches:

-format (optional, defaults to "text/html")

Parameters:

path (required)
the path to the file, relative to the OpenACS path root.

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_trivial_smoke_test

api_proc_documentation (public)

 api_proc_documentation [ -format format ] [ -script ] [ -source ] \
    [ -xql ] [ -label label ] [ -first_line_tag first_line_tag ] \
    [ -proc_type proc_type ] proc_name

Generates formatted documentation for a procedure.

Switches:

-format (optional)
the type of documentation to generate. This parameter is deprecated and has no effect.
-script (optional, boolean)
include information about what script this proc lives in?
-source (optional, boolean)
include the source code for the script?
-xql (optional, boolean)
include the source code for the related xql files?
-label (optional)
the label printed for the proc in the header line
-first_line_tag (optional, defaults to "<h3>")
tag for the markup of the first line
-proc_type (optional)

Parameters:

proc_name (required)
the name of the procedure for which to generate documentation.

Returns:
the formatted documentation string.

Error:
if the procedure is not defined.

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_proc_documentation

api_proc_link (public)

 api_proc_link [ -source ] proc

Switches:

-source (optional, boolean, defaults to "1")

Parameters:

proc (required)

Returns:
full HTML link to the documentation for the proc.

Author:

Lars Pind <lars@pinds.com>

Created:

14 July 2000

See Also:

api_proc_url

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
documentation__check_deprecated_see

api_proc_pretty_name (public)

 api_proc_pretty_name [ -link ] [ -include_debug_controls ] \
    [ -hints_only ] [ -proc_type proc_type ] [ -label label ] proc

Switches:

-link (optional, boolean)
provide a link to the documentation pages
-include_debug_controls (optional, boolean)
-hints_only (optional, boolean)
-proc_type (optional)
-label (optional)
the label printed for the proc in the header line

Parameters:

proc (required)

Returns:
a pretty version of a proc name

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_proc_pretty_name

api_proc_url (public)

 api_proc_url [ -source ] proc

Switches:

-source (optional, boolean, defaults to "1")

Parameters:

proc (required)

Returns:
the URL of the page that documents the given proc.

Author:

Lars Pind <lars@pinds.com>

Created:

14 July 2000

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_proc_pretty_name

api_read_script_documentation (public)

 api_read_script_documentation path

Reads the contract from a Tcl content page.

Parameters:

path (required)
the path of the Tcl file to examine, relative to the OpenACS root directory.

Returns:
a list representation of the documentation element array, or an empty list if the file does not contain a doc_page_contract block.

Error:
if the file does not exist.

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_read_script_documentation

api_script_documentation (public)

 api_script_documentation [ -format format ] path

Generates formatted documentation for a content page. Sources the file to obtain the comment or contract at the beginning.

Switches:

-format (optional, defaults to "text/html")
the type of documentation to generate. Currently, only text/html is supported.

Parameters:

path (required)
the path of the Tcl file to examine, relative to the OpenACS root directory.

Returns:
the formatted documentation string.

Error:
if the file does not exist.

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_api_script_documentation

api_type_documentation (public, deprecated)

 api_type_documentation type

Deprecated. Invoking this procedure generates a warning.

Deprecated: this was part of a feature which used to react to the 'type' property set in ad_page_contract's documentation and generate an extra link in /api-doc/package-view, but currently no upstream script seems to specify this value and no code seems to create necessary 'doc_type_doc' nsv

Parameters:

type (required)

Returns:
HTML fragment of the API docs.

See Also:

/packages/acs-api-browser/www/type-view.tcl

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
No testcase defined.

apidoc::format_author (public)

 apidoc::format_author author_string

Extracts information about the author and formats it into an HTML string.

Parameters:

author_string (required)
author information to format. 3 kind of formats are expected: email (a mailto link to the email is generated), whitespace-separated couple " ()" (a mailto link for email and the name are generated) and free-form (the same input string is returned).

Returns:
the formatted result

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_apidoc_format_author

apidoc::format_see (public)

 apidoc::format_see see

Takes the value in the argument "see" and possibly formats it into a link that will give the user more info about that resource

Parameters:

see (required)
a string expected to contain the resource to format

Returns:
the html string representing the resource

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_apidoc_format_see

apidoc::get_object_property (public)

 apidoc::get_object_property o what [ args... ]

Return poperties of objects agnostic to the object system (i.e., XOTcl or NX).

Parameters:

o (required)

what (required)

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
No testcase defined.

apidoc::tcl_to_html (public)

 apidoc::tcl_to_html proc_name

Given a proc name, formats it as HTML, including highlighting syntax in various colors and creating hyperlinks to other proc definitions. The inspiration for this proc was the tcl2html script created by Jeff Hobbs.
Known Issues:

This proc will mistakenly highlight switch strings that look like commands as commands, etc.
There are many undocumented AOLserver commands including all of the commands added by modules.
When a proc inside a string has explicitly quoted arguments, they are not formatted.
regexp and regsub are hard to parse properly. E.g. If we use the start option, and we quote its argument, and we have an ugly regexp, then this code might highlight it incorrectly.

Parameters:

proc_name (required)
procedure to format in HTML

Author:

Jamie Rasmussen <jrasmuss@mle.ie>

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_apidoc_tclcode_to_html

apidoc::tclcode_to_html (public)

 apidoc::tclcode_to_html [ -scope scope ] \
    [ -proc_namespace proc_namespace ] script

Given a script, this proc formats it as HTML, including highlighting syntax in various colors and creating hyperlinks to other proc definitions. The inspiration for this proc was the tcl2html script created by Jeff Hobbs.

Switches:

-scope (optional)
-proc_namespace (optional)

Parameters:

script (required)
script to be formatted in HTML

Partial Call Graph (max 5 caller/called nodes):

Testcases:
acs_api_browser_apidoc_tclcode_to_html

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