Protagonist

API Blueprint Parser for Node.js

Protagonist is a Node.js wrapper for the Snow Crash library.

API Blueprint is Web API documentation language. You can find API Blueprint documentation on the API Blueprint site.

Install

The best way to install Protagonist is by using its NPM package.

$ npm install protagonist

Works smoothly with node.js ~0.8.15, 0.10.x, 0.12.x and iojs v1.x.x

Getting started

var protagonist = require('protagonist');

protagonist.parse('# My API', function(error, result) {
    if (error) {
        console.log(error);
        return;
    }

    console.log(result);
});

Synchronous usage

If you for some reason need to use the API synchronously, that is also possible. Please note that the recommended way is to use the asynchronous API as to not block the event loop.

var result = protagonist.parseSync('# My API');

Parsing Options

Options can be passed to the parser as an optional second argument to both the asynchronous and synchronous interfaces:

var options = {
    exportSourcemap: true
}
protagonist.parse('# My API', options, callback);

The available options are:

Name | Description ---------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- requireBlueprintName | Require parsed blueprints have a title (default: false) exportSourcemap | Enable sourcemap generation (default: false) type | Set the output structure type as either ast or refract (default: refract)

Parsing Result

Parsing this blueprint:

# GET /1
+ response

will produce the following object (result variable):

{
  "element": "parseResult",
  "content": [
    {
      "element": "category",
      "meta": {
        "classes": [
          "api"
        ],
        "title": ""
      },
      "content": [
        {
          "element": "category",
          "meta": {
            "classes": [
              "resourceGroup"
            ],
            "title": ""
          },
          "content": [
            {
              "element": "resource",
              "meta": {
                "title": ""
              },
              "attributes": {
                "href": "/1"
              },
              "content": [
                {
                  "element": "transition",
                  "meta": {
                    "title": ""
                  },
                  "content": [
                    {
                      "element": "httpTransaction",
                      "content": [
                        {
                          "element": "httpRequest",
                          "attributes": {
                            "method": "GET"
                          },
                          "content": []
                        },
                        {
                          "element": "httpResponse",
                          "attributes": {
                            "statusCode": "200"
                          },
                          "content": []
                        }
                      ]
                    }
                  ]
                }
              ]
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Hacking Protagonist

You are welcome to contribute. Use following steps to build & test Protagonist.

Build

Protagonist uses node-gyp build tool.

1. If needed, install node-gyp:

   $ npm install -g node-gyp

2. Clone the repository, and fetch the submodules:

   $ git clone --recursive git://github.com/apiaryio/protagonist.git
   $ cd protagonist
   $ npm install

3. Build:

   $ node-gyp configure
   $ node-gyp build

Test

Inside the protagonist repository run:

$ npm test

Contribute

Fork & Pull Request.

License

MIT License. See the LICENSE file.