Doclet to save a Fixture's javadoc as json

JSON JavaDoc Doclet

For FitNesse Fixture Docs

A doclet class to collect Javadoc info from fixture classes to be distributed in the META-INF folder of the fixture jar.

Use Praegus toolchain-fitnesse-plugin (https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/nl/praegus/toolchain-fitnesse-plugin/) to see the documentation in your test's context pane when editing.

If you define a line in your javadoc comment that starts with 'Usage: ' the wiki usage is expected. So say we have a method:

public String getSomeDataFromButIgnore(String location, String somethingElse) {}

One could write:

/**
 * A method that gets data
 * Usage: | get some data from | [location] | but ignore | [somethingElse] |
 * @Param location ..
 * @Param somethingElse ..
 * @Return the requested data
 */

To be sure that the context helper and autocomplete will use that string instead of:

| get some data from but | [location] | ignore | [somethingElse] |

Which the default wikitext generator in autocomplete responder would produce.

Usage: Add the doclet to your build using the maven-javadoc-plugin. Note that in order to document any methods that come from superclasses that are not in your package, you should set includeDependencySources to true and exclude any packages (you can use wildcards) that you don't need json files for.

<plugin>
    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
    <extensions>true</extensions>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <phase>generate-resources</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>javadoc</goal>
            </goals>
        </execution>
    </executions>

    <configuration>
        <doclet>nl.praegus.doclets.FixtureDocGenerator</doclet>
        <docletArtifact>
            <groupId>nl.praegus</groupId>
            <artifactId>fixture-doc-generator</artifactId>
            <version>1.0</version>
        </docletArtifact>

        <excludePackageNames>list:of:packages:to:exclude</excludePackageNames>

        <includeDependencySources>true</includeDependencySources>
        <dependencySourceIncludes>
            <dependencySourceInclude>group:artifactToInclude</dependencySourceInclude>
        </dependencySourceIncludes>

        <reportOutputDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/META-INF/</reportOutputDirectory>
        <useStandardDocletOptions>false</useStandardDocletOptions>
    </configuration>
</plugin>