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
Rather than requiring an output directory to be explcitly configured,
a default is now automatically configured based on the build tool
that's being used. When using Gradle, snippets will be generated in
build/generated-snippets. When using Maven, snippets will be
generated in target/generated-snippets.
See gh-297
In 1.0, the reliance on JUnit was more widespread than it should have
been. It should have been isolated to the JUnit TestRule implementation,
RestDocumentation. Unfortunately, RestDocumentation was also an argument
to MockMvcRestDocumentation.documentationConfiguration which made it
impossible to use Spring REST Docs without having JUnit on the
classpath.
This commit introduces JUnitRestDocumentation and
ManualRestDocumentation. The format is a direct replacement for
RestDocumentation which has been reworked to delegate to
JUnitRestDocumentation. The latter allows manual management of the
RestDocumentationContext, primarily for use with TestNG.
A new interface, RestDocumentationContextProvider, has been introduced.
It is implemented by RestDocumentation, JUnitRestDocumentation and
ManualRestDocumentation.
MockMvcRestDocumentation.documentationConfiguration has been overridden
to also accept a RestDocumentationContextProvider. The method that
accepts a RestDocumentation has been deprecated, as has
RestDocumentation itself.
The documentation has been updated to encourage the use of
JUnitRestDocumentation and a sample illustrating the use of Spring REST
Docs with TestNG has been added.
Closes gh-171
Previously both samples supported Maven and Gradle. Due to the different
default locations between the two build systems, the Gradle-based sample
was configured to use Maven’s default location for its .adoc files.
The samples have now been updated so that one sample uses Maven and the
other uses Gradle. However, when this change was made, the customization
of the Gradle-based sample’s .adoc file location wasn’t removed.
This commit updates the Gradle-based sample to use the default location,
src/docs/asciidoc, for its .adoc source files.
Closes gh-145
This commit configures Checkstyle and updates the build to comply with
that configuration. The Eclipse JDT metadata has also been updated
so that the output of Eclipse’s code formatting and clean-up is
compliant with Checkstyle.
The use of the latest version (6.10.1) of Checkstyle has required an
upgrade to Gradle 2.7. Gradle hardcode’s the name of the Checkstyle’s
main class which has changed between version 5 (Gradle’s default) and
version 6.
Closes gh-119
- Correct the location of the Git repository
- Correct the location of the sample within the repository
- Update the build instructions for the Data REST sample to use Maven
- Move the table of contents to the left
- Add section links
Closes gh-113
This commit enhances the tasks that build the samples to
automatically update the version of their spring-restdocs dependency
to match the version of the main project.
Following the reworking of the API, it was no longer possible to
apply preprocessing to every test and to still customize the snippets
used by that test.
This commit adds a new snippets() method to
RestDocumentationResultHandler that allows additional snippets to be
configured once the result handler has been created. The documentation
has been updated to describe how to apply preprocessing to every
test and Spring HATEOAS sample has been updated to illustrate the
approach.
Closes gh-88
This commit splits Spring REST Docs into two projects –
spring-restdocs-core and spring-restdocs-mockmvc.
spring-restdocs-core contains the vast majority of the code but does not
depend on a specific test framework other than JUnit. The use of a
Spring Test TestExecutionListener has been replaced with a JUnit test
rule. The rule is declared once per test class and configured with
the output directory to which the generated snippets should be written.
This simplifies the implementation as thread local storage is no longer
required to transfer information about the test that’s running into
Spring REST Docs. Instead, this transfer is now handled by the new test
rule. It has also simplified the configuration as it’s no longer
necessary for users to provide a system property that configures the
output directory.
spring-restdocs-mockmvc contains code that’s specific to using Spring
REST Docs with Spring MVC Test’s MockMvc. This is currently the only
testing framework that’s supported, but it paves the way for adding
support for additional frameworks. REST Assured is one that users seem
particularly interested in (see gh-80 and gh-102).
Closes gh-107
Previously, users that wanted to document a request field’s constraints
had to roll their own solution. This commit introduces a new API that
makes it easier to document constraints. Support is provided for
discovering Bean Validation constraints and resolving descriptions for
them. The constraint descriptions can then be used as required. For
example, they can included in a field’s description or in an additional
constraints attribute that’s included in an additional table column via
the use of a custom snippet template.
Closes gh-42
This commit updates the API to improve its extensibility and
readability.
SnippetWritingResultHandler has been replaced with a more general
purpose Snippet interface. Snippets are now provided to the main
document method using varargs rather than the various with… methods
that were previously used. As a result a custom Snippet implementation
can now be used in exactly the same way as any of the built-in
snippets:
this.mockMvc.perform(get("/"))
.andExpect(status().isOk())
.andDo(document("index-example",
links(
linkWithRel("notes").description("…"),
linkWithRel("tags").description("…")),
responseFields(
fieldWithPath("_links").description("…")),
yourCustomSnippet()));
Control of the snippets that are generated by default is now available
via RestDocumentationConfigurer:
this.mockMvc = MockMvcBuilders.webAppContextSetup(this.context)
.apply(documentationConfiguration().snippets()
.withDefaults(curlRequest(), yourCustomSnippet()))
.build();
See gh-73
Previously, snippets were written to disk using the JVM’s default
encoding. While this could be controlled by the file.encoding system
property it was not ideal as, if the proper was not always set, it could
lead to platform-dependent output being generated. Furthermore,
Asciidoctor uses UTF-8 encoding by default so there was a risk of the
snippets being generated in a different encoding to the encoding
expected by Asciidoctor.
This commit updates the configuration so that, by default, snippets are
encoded as UTF-8. The RestDocumentationConfigurer API has been enhanced
to allow this default to be configured as part of building the
MockMvc instance. This enhancement as brought with it a more fluent
configuration API that separates configuration that is related to URIs
from configuration that is related to snippets.
Closes gh-67
The main project supports Java 7 or later, but, prior to this commit,
the Spring HATEOAS sample required Java 8. This commit updates updates
the Spring HATEOAS sample to make it compatible with Java 7 and
updates the build configuration of both samples to specify Java 7.
Closes gh-51
