This commit improves the support for documenting the fields found
in request and response payloads. The improvements include:
- Using the term "payload" rather than "state" as the latter is
somewhat HAL-specific
- Code simplification, including the removal of the Path abstraction
- Automatically determining the type of a field based on the payload
that's being tested
- Updating the samples to use the new API
In addition to these improvements, support for documenting field
constraints has been removed as more thought is required. The
FieldDescriptor abstraction is used to describe both request and
response fields, however it's not clear that contraints apply to both
and they certainly don't apply in the same way. For the time being at
least, users who want to document a field's constraints can do so as
part of its description.
Closes gh-24
The MVC test framework provides an alwaysDo method which allows the
configuration of a result handler to be that will be invoked for every
call to perform. Previously, this method could not be used for
producing documentation snippets as the snippets would overwrite each
other.
This commit adds support for writing snippets to a parameterized
output directory. Two parameters are supported: method name and step.
Method name is the name of the currently executing test method. Step
is a count of the number of calls to MockMvc.perform that have been
made in that method.
Closes gh-14
This commit makes extensive changes to the structure of the code. It
introduces a number of separate packages to provide better separation
of the various areas of functionality. Alongside this change the project
has been renamed from spring-restdocs-core to spring-restdocs.
The build has been improved to provide support for building the samples
from the main build using the buildSamples task. While this change has
been made, the samples remain standalone projects so that their
configuration is not dependent on the main project’s build. Running
buildSamples will build the samples using both Maven and Gradle.
All of the main project’s classes now have javadoc and licence/copyright
headers.
