modeldocs 0.1.1

Documentation generator for your model subclasses.

modeldocs is a documentation generator for your model subclasses.

If you have a bunch of data models that inherit from a common baseclass (or can change them to), modeldocs will allow you to automatically discover your subclasses and generate documentation for them by parsing a documentation format similar to apidocs (https://github.com/apidoc/apidoc)

Installation

From pypi:

$ pip install modeldocs

Or from the project root directory:

$ python setup.py install

Usage

First, create a configuration file in json, like (optional include):

{
    "name": "My Documentation",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "title": "My Documentation Title",
    "description": "This documents my data models",
    "include": [
        "mymodule",
        "tests/myfile.py"
    ]
}

Save it as modeldocs.json in the current directory.

Then simply run it, and it’ll search for all modeldocs recursively from the current directory:

$ modeldocs

Or, specify via the command line where to look and what files:

$ modeldocs --include mymodule myfile.py

Or pass a path to your custom config, which may specify an “include” configuration variable:

$ modeldocs --config my_model_docs.json

Also, you can specify a custom output directory (default “docs”):

$ modeldocs --output mydocs

Use –help/-h to view info on the arguments:

$ modeldocs --help

The format is pretty simple. It follows a very similar format to apidocs (check github link above), example:

class Motorcycle(MongoCollection):
    '''
    @modelGroup Vehicles
    @modelTitle Motorcycle
    @modelDescription This represents a motorcycle and all its data.

    @modelField {String} name the motorcycle name
    @modelField {Number} year the year it was made
    @modelField {Datetime} purchased_at the datetime it was purchased
    @modelField {String="red","green","blue"} color the color of the motorcycle, with specified possible values.
    @modelField {String} [owner] the owner of the vehicle (optional due to brackets)
    @modelField {Number} [wheels=2] the number of wheels (default 2 as specified)
    '''
    pass

That’s all it takes. Just add doc strings like the above to all your classes and make sure they inherit from a similar baseclass, then write a json configuration that has the path to the base class’ module, the name of the base class, and paths to all the modules that have subclasses of that base class.

modeldocs will do the rest and generate the documentation into the “docs” directory.

Release Notes

0.1.1:

Better method of parsing, without loading any python modules. Just give it an include directory.

0.1.0:

Generates docs!

0.0.1:

Project created