Previously, when a field was documented it would implicitly document
the whole subsection of the payload identified by that field. This
could lead to users inadvertently failing to document part of the
payload. Arguably, this was a bug as it violated REST Docs' principle
of producing accurate, detail documentation. However, fixing it
requires a breaking change as people may also be relying on this
behaviour. A balance needed to be struck so the fix is being made in
a minor release.
This commit introduces a new subsectionWithPath method which returns a
SubsectionDescriptor; a specialisation of FieldDescriptor. Users
that were intentionally relying on the old behaviour will have to
replace some usage of fieldWithPath with subsectionWithPath instead.
Users who were unintentionally relying on the old behaviour will have
to add some additional descriptors produced using fieldWithPath and
will receive more accurate documentation in return.
Closes gh-274
Rather than introducing a custom macro, this commit opts to implicitly
configure the snippets attribute instead. The attribute is configured
will the path into which snippets are generated, relative to the
directory that contains the Asciidoctor document that is being
rendered.
The samples and documentation have been updated to use the new
spring-restdocs-asciidoctor module and the implicitly configured
snippets attribute.
Closes gh-297
The sole structural change is to rearrange the build slightly so that,
like the other samples, the version of the Grails sample's REST Docs
dependency is automatically updated.
See gh-250
