Contributing to plone.restapi#

Generating documentation examples#

This documentation includes examples of requests and responses (http, curl, httpie, and python-requests). These examples are generated by the documentation tests in test_documentation.py. To generate a new example, add a new test case to test_documentation.py, for example test_documentation_search_fullobjects, and run the test

./bin/test -t test_documentation_search_fullobjects

This generates the request and the response files in tests/http-examples/.

Include them in the documentation using MyST syntax:

```{eval-rst}
..  http:example:: curl httpie python-requests
    :request: ../../src/plone/restapi/tests/http-examples/search_fullobjects.req

..  literalinclude:: ../../src/plone/restapi/tests/http-examples/search_fullobjects.resp
    :language: http
```

Build the documentation locally to test the rendering by running ./bin/sphinxbuilder. Alternatively, you can use Makefile targets:

docs-clean

Clean current and legacy docs build directories, and Python virtual environment

docs-html

Build HTML

docs-linkcheck

Run linkcheck

docs-linkcheckbroken

Run linkcheck and show only broken links

docs-livehtml

Rebuild Sphinx documentation on changes, with live-reload in the browser

docs-vale

Run spell, grammar, and style checks

docs

Build Docs

Make sure you add and commit the generated files in http-examples.