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Installation

PHP 7.2 and Laravel 6.x or higher are required.

composer require --dev ronanflavio/laradocs-generate

After updating composer, add the service provider to the providers array in config/app.php

Ronanflavio\LaradocsGenerate\LaradocsGenerateServiceProvider::class,

Generating docs

To generate docs simply run the command:

php artisan docs:generate

This command will create the routes.json file into your resource folder. The file will be used to provide data to render the view. You may want to ignore the routes.json file into your .gitignore.

Access your app host with /docs URI to see the docs page:

E.g.: http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs

Writing docs

Tha main goal of this package is to indicate which specifically is the URI parameters, the request body parameters and what is coming within the response.

To achieve this, you may want to write some custom PHPDocs above your controller class, actions and your DTOs' properties. Let's see some practical examples:

Typing the request and response objects

To indicate which is the URI parameter type, use the default @param annotation.

To indicate which class object must be given within the request, you must write the full qualified name of it's class within the @request annotation.

To indicate which class object will be returned, you must write the full qualified name of it's class within the @response annotation. If there is no class object to be returned, just type the the variable type (e.g.: boolean, int etc...) instead. void will be provided if there is no @response.

<?php

// namespace and uses here...

/**
 * Users management
 * 
 * Here will be shown the description of
 * your UsersController group. If there is
 * no description, the class name will be
 * shown instead.
 */
class UsersController extends Controller
{
    /**
     * Lists all users
     * @response \App\DataTransferObjects\User\ListUsersDto
     */
    public function index()
    {
        // your code here...
    }

    /**
     * Returns the details about the given user
     * @param string $id
     * @response \App\DataTransferObjects\User\UserDetailsDto
     */
    public function details(string $id)
    {
        // your code here...
    }
    
    /**
     * Creates a new user
     * @request \App\DataTransferObjects\User\CreateUserDto
     * @response \App\DataTransferObjects\User\UserDetailsDto
     */
    public function create(CreateUserRequest $request)
    {
        // your code here...
    }

Typing the DTOs' attributes specifications

To indicate which is the variable type from an attribute you may use the standard @var annotation. If you want to be more specific, you can also indicate a practical example to that attribute using the @example annotation. See some code bellow:

<?php

namespace App\DataTransferObjects\User;

use App\DataTransferObjects\DataTransferObject;

class CreateUserDto extends DataTransferObject
{
    /**
     * @var string
     * @example email@example.local
     */
    public $email;

    /**
     * @var string
     * @example John Doe
     */
    public $name;

    /**
     * @var string
     * @example 123456
     */
    public $password;

    /**
     * @var string
     * @example 4c0c9e5d-f18f-4197-8531-02c90f9a81e0
     */
    public $role_id;
}

Publishing

Publish the config file by running:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Ronanflavio\LaradocsGenerate\LaradocsGenerateServiceProvider" --tag=laradocs-config

This will create the docs.php file in your config directory.

You can also publish the view blade file by running:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Ronanflavio\LaradocsGenerate\LaradocsGenerateServiceProvider" --tag=laradocs-views

This will create the docs.blade.php file in your resource/views directory.

License

The Laradocs Generate is free software licensed under the MIT license.