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diff --git a/docs/handle-docs/handle-docs.md b/docs/handle-docs/handle-docs.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9ecb421 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/handle-docs/handle-docs.md @@ -0,0 +1,162 @@ +# Abstract + +AGL doc website is based on a collection of markdown files fetched from various repositories. +A tool available in [docs-tools](https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/docs-tools) takes +care of collecting and templating all markdown files according fetched_files.yml located in +[docs-webtemplate](https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/docs-webtemplate). + +See below a scheme of the workflow of agl documentation website generation. + +![alt text](pictures/workflow.png) + +As you can see, the section_``version``.yml contains the links to all the book yaml files, it is proceed to fetch all book yaml files from remote repositories to the docs-webtemplate. The book yaml files contains all the url to your markdown files from the remote repository. + +As soon as all the markdown files are fetched, the tools process to generate the AGL doc website. + +--- + +**Note:** + +The images described in markdown files are automatically fetched. For that, the necessary condition is that in markdown files, the relative path has to match with the location of images. + +--- + +## How to add a new documentation section into AGL documentation + +They are two steps to add new markdown files to AGL documentation: + +- Add a book yaml file to the repository where the documentation sources are located (written in markdown files). +- Add an entry into the global section yaml file that point to your book file. The section yaml file is in [docs-webtemplate](https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/docs-webtemplate) repository (`git@github.com:automotive-grade-linux/docs-webtemplate.git`) named `section_<version>.yml`. + +--- + +**Note**: To generate a local documentation please refer to the [README](https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/docs-webtemplate/blob/master-next/README.md) of the docs-webtemplate (https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/docs-webtemplate) and use `setupdocs.sh` script. + +--- + +### Add a book yaml file into a repository + +The book file is needed to describe how your documentation is structured and must be used to describe +among others : + +- the global title of the doc +- the chapter name when the doc will be part of the whole documentation website +- subchapters list and consequently subchapters hierarchy +- multi-language description + +--- + +**Note:** + +Multi-language is handled by key suffixes. That is to say, there are some keys that can be suffixed by a language: ``<key>_<lang>`` +For the url to the markdown files, the prefix ```%lang%``` will match with suffixes. So, you have to create a subdirectory named ```%lang%``` where the markdown files are put. + +A example for the french: + +``` +name: "My section in english" +name_fr: "Ma section en français" +url: "%lang/section.md" +``` + +``` +$ ls -lR mydir +book.yml +section.md +fr/section.md +``` + +--- + +There are several types of book: + +- book +- api + +#### Book Type + +`book` type describes documentation structure and chapters. +Below the generic way to include a book file: + +```yaml +type: books +books: +- + id: <ID1> + order: x #optional: between 0 in 100 default when not set is 50, it allows to define order in final + #documentation, more the order number is low more the documentation is first + title: title of your chapter #default title + title_<lang>: title in <lang> + description: description of your book + keywords: some keywords + author: author of the documentation + version: version of the documentation + chapters: + - name: Name of your subchapter + name_<lang>: Name of your subchapter in <lang> + url: "%lang%/relative-path/to/your/mardown.md" #%lang% will be replaced by the + #available languages, + #default language can be in the root directory + - name: Name of your subchapter + name_<lang>: Name of your subchapter in <lang> + url: "%lang%/relative-path/to/your/mardown.md" + - name: Name of your subchapter + name_<lang>: Name of your subchapter in <lang> + - name: Name of your subsubchapter + name_<lang>: Name of your subsubchapter in <lang> + url: "%lang%/relative-path/to/your/mardown.md" + - name: Name of your subsubchapter + name_<lang>: Name of your subsubchapter in <lang> + children: + - ... + - ... + - ... +- + id: <ID2> + ... +``` + +[book.yml.in](https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/docs-sources/blob/master/docs/handle-docs/book.yml.in) +is a sort of schema of book.yml. This file contains all supported keys. + +Here a sample yaml file, you can start from : + +```bash +wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/automotive-grade-linux/docs-sources/master-next/docs/getting-started-book.yml -O my-new-book.yml +``` + +#### Api Type + +In progress + +### Add an entry in section file + +There are 4 sections in docs: getting_started, architecture_guides, developer_guides, apis_services. + +They are located in `content/docs` in [docs-webtemplate](https://github.com/automotive-grade-linux/docs-webtemplate) repository. +In addition, each directory contains several section yaml file, one a version. For master version, it is `section_master.yml`. + +Below the structure of section yaml file. + +```yaml +url_fetch : DEFAULT_URL_FETCH #this the default url_fetch that can be overload further, there already are some default variables defined in docs-webtemplate/docs-tools +git_commit : DEFAULT_VERSION #this is the default git_commit that can be overload further, there already are some default variables defined in docs-webtemplate/docs-tools + +name: Name of the section +template: generated_index.html +books: +- + id: <ID1> + url_fetch: <url_fetch> #optional, overload the default one + git_commit: <git_commit> #optional, overload the default one + path: "relativepath/from/root/repository/to/the/book/yaml/file" + books: #optional: subbooks, will be a child of the above book + - id: <SUBID2> + url_fetch: <url_fetch> #optional, overload the default one + git_commit: <git_commit> #optional, overload the default one + path: "relativepath/from/root/repository/to/the/book/yaml/file" + - ... +- + id: <ID2> + ... +``` |