esp-doxybook

This is a tool that converts Doxygen XML output into a single-file API reference in Markdown format.

Live Demo

• C Project: https://espressif.github.io/doxybook/c_api/
• C++ Project: https://espressif.github.io/doxybook/cpp_api/

Requirements

You need to have python 3.7 or newer and Jinja2 package installed.

Memory usage

Needs up to 100MiB of memory. Parsing super large projects can use up to 0.5GiB of memory. For example, a project consisting of 1000 Doxygen xml files can use 550MiB of memory, but I would be worried more about VuePress or GitBook memory usage while using that many files.

Installation

Install using Python Pip: https://pypi.org/project/esp-doxybook/

Use with pre-commit

- repo: https://github.com/espressif/doxybook
  rev: v0.2.2
  hooks:
    - id: doxygen-api-md

The default path of the generated xml files is xml, make sure it's matching the path in your Doxyfile.

For example, if you have this in your Doxyfile:

OUTPUT_DIRECTORY       = ./doxygen_output

Then you need to set the path in the pre-commit config like this:

- repo: https://github.com/espressif/doxybook
  rev: v0.2.2
  hooks:
    - id: doxygen-api-md
      args: ["-i", "doxygen_output/xml", "-o", "docs/api.md"]

Make sure you've installed doxygen before you run pre-commit install. Otherwise, the hook will fail.

Compile the example

git clone https://github.com/espressif/doxybook.git

cd doxybook

# Install dependencies
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install flit
flit install -s

# Let's take C project as an example
cd example/c
esp-doxybook -i temp/xml -o ../../docs/c_api.md

# Preview Markdown with MkDocs
cd ../../
mkdocs serve

Then go to http://localhost:8000/c_api/ to see the generated documentation.

Found a bug or want to request a feature?

Feel free to do it on GitHub issues

Pull requests

Pull requests are welcome

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2019 Matus Novak

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