Drafter

Snowcrash parser harness

API Blueprint Parser

Drafter is complex builder of API Blueprint. Internally it uses Snowcrash library, reference API Blueprint parser.

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

Additionally Drafter provide set of Wrappers for serialization, of parsing result, via SOS library into JSON and YAML format.

Drafter also provides the user ability to select the type of the output. There are two possible values:

• API Elements Parse Result: Parse Result is defined in API Elements according to Parse Result Namespace.
• Normal AST Parse Result: Parse Result defined by the API Blueprint AST Parse Result. The AST is deprecated and only available in the Drafter command line tool.

By default, Drafter assumes the Refract Parse Result.

Both the types of Parse Results are available in two different serialization formats, YAML and JSON. YAML is the default for the CLI.

Status

• Format 1A9 fully implemented

Install

OS X using Homebrew:

$ brew install drafter

AUR package for Arch Linux.

Other systems refer to build notes.

Usage

Drafter is both a library and a command line tool.

Command line tool

The command line tool allows you to parse a blueprint and/or check the validity of a blueprint.

$ cat << 'EOF' > blueprint.apib
# My API
## GET /message
+ Response 200 (text/plain)

        Hello World!
EOF

$ drafter blueprint.apib
element: "parseResult"
content:
  -
    element: "category"
    meta:
      classes:
        - "api"
      title: "My API"
...

See parse feature for the details on using the drafter command line tool.

C/C++ API

Please refer to drafter.h for the full API documentation. See Drafter bindings for using the library in other languages.

Parsing a blueprint to a JSON or YAML string

The drafter_parse_blueprint_to takes a source blueprint and returns the given blueprint parsed and serialized as API Elements in YAML or JSON.

int drafter_parse_blueprint_to(const char* source, char ** out, const drafter_options options);

#include <drafter/drafter.h>

const char* blueprint =
  "# My API\n"
  "## GET /message\n"
  "+ Response 200 (text/plain)\n"
  "\n"
  "      Hello World!\n";

drafter_options options;
options.format = DRAFTER_SERIALIZE_JSON;
options.sourcemap = true;

char* result = NULL;
if (drafter_parse_blueprint_to(blueprint, &result, options) == 0) {
    printf("%s\n", result);
    free(result);
}

Checking the validity of a blueprint

The drafter_check_blueprint function allows checking the validity of a blueprint. This function will return a drafter_result when the blueprint produces warnings and/or errors. With a drafter_result, the drafter_serialize function can be used to serialized the result as API Elements in YAML or JSON.

drafter_result* drafter_check_blueprint(const char* source);

#include <drafter/drafter.h>

const char* blueprint =
  "# My API\n"
  "## GET /message\n"
  "+ Response 200 (text/plain)\n"
  "\n"
  "      Hello World!\n";

drafter_result* result = drafter_check_blueprint(blueprint);
if (result) {
    // Serialize the result to print the warnings/errors

    drafter_options options;
    options.format = DRAFTER_SERIALIZE_JSON;
    options.sourcemap = true;

    char* out = drafter_serialize(result, options);
    printf("The blueprint produces warnings or errors:\n\n%s\n", out);
    free(out);

    drafter_free_result(result);
} else {
    printf("The given blueprint was valid.\n");
}

Build

Compiler Support

Compiler	Minimum Supported Version
Clang	4.0
GCC	5.3
MSVC++	2015

1. Clone the repo + fetch the submodules:

   $ git clone --recursive git://github.com/apiaryio/drafter.git
   $ cd drafter

2. Build & test Drafter:

   $ ./configure
   $ make test

   To include integration tests (using Cucumber) use the --include-integration-tests flag:

   $ ./configure --include-integration-tests
   $ make test

We love Windows too! Please refer to Building on Windows.

Drafter command line tool

1. Build drafter:

   $ make drafter

2. Install & use drafter:

   $ sudo make install
   $ drafter --help

Bindings

Drafter bindings in other languages:

• drafter-npm (Node.js)
• drafter.js (Pure JavaScript)
• RedSnow (Ruby)
• DrafterPy (Python)

CLI Wrapper

• fury-cli (Node.js)
• Drafter-php (PHP)

Contribute

Fork & Pull Request

If you want to create a binding for Drafter please refer to the Writing a Binding article.

License

MIT License. See the LICENSE file.