Use Pandoc to render servant API documentation.

Use pandoc to generate documentation for your Servant API.

An extension to servant-docs that allows you to use Pandoc to render your Servant API documentation.

How to use this package

Generate documentation directly

A very simple program to render the API documentation as a mediawiki document might look as follows.

import Text.Pandoc
import Servant.Docs.Pandoc
import Servant.Docs
import Data.Default (def)

myApi :: Proxy MyAPI myApi = Proxy

writeDocs :: API -> IO ()
writeDocs api = writeFile "api.mw" (writeMediaWiki def (pandoc api))

Create a Pandoc filter

The makeFilter function allows you to make a filter which can be used directly with pandoc from the command line. This filter will just append the API documentation to the end of the document. Example usage:

-- api.hs
main :: IO ()
main = makeFilter (docs myApi)

Then to run this:

pandoc -o api.pdf --filter=api.hs manual.md

Custom filters

A more sophisticated filter might be to actually convert introduction and note bodies to Markdown before processing (note: this is not enabled by default as the pandoc library is GPL-licensed, whereas this library uses pandoc-types which is BSD3-licensed):

import Data.Monoid         (mconcat, (<>))
import Servant.Docs.Pandoc (pandoc)
import Text.Pandoc         (readMarkdown)
import Text.Pandoc.JSON    (Block(Para, Plain), Inline(Str), Pandoc(Pandoc),
                            toJSONFilter)
import Text.Pandoc.Options (def)
import Text.Pandoc.Walk    (walkM)

main :: IO ()
main = toJSONFilter append
  where
    append :: Pandoc -> Pandoc
    append = (<> mconcat (walkM parseMarkdown (pandoc myApi)))

parseMarkdown :: Block -> [Block]
parseMarkdown bl = case bl of
                     Para  [Str str] -> toMarkdown str
                     Plain [Str str] -> toMarkdown str
                     _               -> [bl]
  where
    toMarkdown = either (const [bl]) unPandoc . readMarkdown def

    unPandoc (Pandoc _ bls) = bls