docs-v2/api-docs

Generate InfluxDB API docs

InfluxData uses Redoc, redoc-cli, and Redocly's OpenApi CLI to generate API documentation from the InfluxDB OpenAPI (aka Swagger) contracts.

To minimize the size of the docs-v2 repository, the generated API documentation HTML is gitignored, therefore not committed to the docs repo. The InfluxDB docs deployment process uses OpenAPI specification files in the api-docs directory to generate version-specific (Cloud, OSS v2.1, OSS v2.0, etc.) API documentation.

Versioned OpenAPI files

The api-docs directory structure versions OpenAPI files using the following pattern:

api-docs/
  ├── v2.0/
  │     └── ref.yml
  │     └── swaggerV1Compat.yml
  ├── v2.1/
  │     └── ref.yml
  │     └── swaggerV1Compat.yml
  ├── v2.2/
  │     └── ref.yml
  │     └── swaggerV1Compat.yml
  └── etc...

Fetch and process openapi contracts

Update the contracts in api-docs to the latest from influxdata/openapi.

# In your terminal, go to the `docs-v2/api-docs` directory:
cd api-docs

# Fetch the contracts and run @redocly/openapi-cli to customize and bundle them.
sh getswagger.sh oss; sh getswagger.sh cloud

Generate API docs locally

Because the API documentation HTML is gitignored, you must manually generate it to view the API docs locally.

Verify that you have a working npx (it's included with Node.js). In your terminal, run:

npx --version

If npx returns errors, download and run a recent version of the Node.js installer for your OS.

# In your terminal, go to the `docs-v2/api-docs` directory:
cd api-docs

# Generate the API docs with Redocly
sh generate-api-docs.sh

Test your openapi spec edits

You can use getswagger.sh to fetch contracts from any URL. For example, if you've made changes to spec files and generated new contracts in your local openapi repo, you can use getswagger.sh to fetch and process them.

To fetch contracts from your own openapi repo, pass the -b base_url option and the full path to your openapi directory.

# Use the file:/// protocol to pass your openapi directory.
sh getswagger.sh oss -b file:///Users/me/github/openapi

After you fetch them, run the linter or generate HTML to test your changes before you commit them to influxdata/openapi. By default, getswagger.sh doesn't run the linter when bundling the specs. Manually run the linter rules to get a report of errors and warnings.

npx @redocly/openapi-cli lint v2.1/ref.yml

Configure OpenAPI CLI linting and bundling

The .redoc.yaml configuration file sets options for the @redocly/openapi-cli lint and bundle commands. ./openapi/plugins contains custom InfluxData Docs plugins composed of rules (for validating and linting) and decorators (for customizing). For more configuration options, see @redocly/openapi-cli configuration file documentation.

Custom content

./openapi/content contains custom OAS (OpenAPI Spec) content in YAML files. The content structure and Markdown must be valid OAS.

./openapi/plugins use ./openapi/plugins/decorators to apply the content to the contracts. .yml files in ./openapi/content/ set content for sections (nodes) in the contract. To update the content for those nodes, you only need to update the YAML files.

To add new YAML files for other nodes in the openapi contracts, configure the new content YAML file in ./openapi/content/content.js. Then, write a decorator module for the node and configure the decorator in the plugin, e.g. ./openapi/plugins/docs-plugin.js. See the complete list of OAS v3.0 nodes.

@redocly/openapi-cli requires that modules use CommonJS require syntax for imports.