django-apiblueprint-view

Render API Blueprints on-the-fly using Django templates

Installation

1. pip install django-apiblueprint-view

2. Add to INSTALLED_APPS in django settings:

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    ...
    'apiblueprint_view',
]

Usage

from apiblueprint_view.views import ApiBlueprintView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^docs/$', ApiBlueprintView.as_view(blueprint='/path/to/blueprint.apibp')),
]

Styling

Custom HTML Template

Define a custom base template. It must include the tag

{% include 'api_docs/docs_parent.html' %}

Pass it into ApiBlueprintView.as_view() as a parameter.

from apiblueprint_view.views import ApiBlueprintView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^docs/$', ApiBlueprintView.as_view(
        blueprint='/path/to/blueprint.apibp',
        template_name='my_base_template.html'
    )),
]

Custom CSS

ApiBlueprintView.as_view() may accept a styles dictionary describing custom CSS classes which should be attached to rendered HTML tags. For example:

from apiblueprint_view.views import ApiBlueprintView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^docs/$', ApiBlueprintView.as_view(
        blueprint='/path/to/blueprint.apibp',
        template_name='my_base_template.html',
        styles={
            'action': {'class': 'foo bar'},
            'method': {'class': 'baz'}
        }
    )),
]

The following keys are valid. All keys are optional:

• 'action': Container <div> for an API action
• 'action_transaction': Container <div> for a HTTP transaction (request and response)
• 'action_request': Container <div> for a HTTP request
• 'action_response': Container <div> for a HTTP response
• 'action_schema': Container <div> for a HTTP request or response schema
• 'action_headers': Container <div> for HTTP request or response headers
• 'action_body': Container <div> for a HTTP request or response body
• 'action_example': Container <div> for an API action example URL
• 'description': Container <div> for some text describing an action, resource, request, response, etc
• 'parameters': Container <div> for a list of parameters
• 'method': Generic <span> containing an HTTP method
• 'method_CONNECT': <span> containing the text CONNECT
• 'method_DELETE': <span> containing the text DELETE
• 'method_GET': <span> containing the text GET
• 'method_HEAD': <span> containing the text HEAD
• 'method_OPTIONS': <span> containing the text OPTIONS
• 'method_PATCH': <span> containing the text PATCH
• 'method_POST': <span> containing the text POST
• 'method_PUT': <span> containing the text PUT
• 'method_TRACE': <span> containing the text TRACE
• 'resource': Container <div> for an API resource
• 'resource_group': Container <div> for an API resource group

Highlight.js can be used to add syntax highlighting

Including Files

You can include other files in your blueprint by using an include directive with a path to the included file relative to the current file's directory. Included files can include other files, so be careful of circular references.

<!-- include(filename.md) -->

This syntax is not a part of the API Blueprint spec, but is also supported in some other tools e.g: aglio.

The include directive has the potential to introduce remote file inclusion or directory traversal vulnerabilities if your application renders user-supplied content. There are a couple of settings to help mitigate this. Set APIBP_PROCESS_INCLUDES = False in your django settings to completely ignore include directives (the default is True). There is also a whitelist of allowed file types to include. The default whitelist is ['.md', '.apibp', '.json'] but this can be overridden by setting APIBP_INCLUDE_WHITELIST to a list of allowed extensions in your django settings.

Versioning

django-apiblueprint-view follows semantic versioning.

From version 3 onwards, django-apiblueprint-view will drop compatibility with unsupported python versions without incrementing the major version. This is in line with common practice in the python community.