JSON Schema

Understanding the output format of the DocBox JSON strategy

The JSON strategy outputs three types of files:

• Overview Summary

• Package Summary

• Class Documentation

Overview Summary

DocBox's JSON strategy outputs a single overview-summary.json file in the root of the configured outputDir directory that documents all packages (component directories) and classes in the configured source.

This overview-summary.json file will match the following schema:

{
    "$id": "point-to-public-json-schema.json",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
    "title": "Package documentation index",
    "description": "This class index links to each generated class documentation JSON file.",
    "required": [],
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "title": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "classes": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "name": {
                        "type": "string"
                    },
                    "path": {
                        "type": "string"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "packages": {
            "type": "object",
            "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "name": {
                        "type": "string"
                    },
                    "path": {
                        "type": "string"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

See an example at JSONSchemaValidator.net

Package Summary

DocBox's JSON strategy outputs a package-summary.json file for every directory found in the configured source directory that contains at least one ColdFusion component.

• source/autos/autoBuilder.cfc will generate a docs/source/autos/package-summary.json

This package-summary.json file will match the following schema:

{
    "$id": "point-to-public-json-schema.json",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
    "title": "Package documentation index",
    "description": "Index file documenting each coldfusion component inside a package level - i.e. per directory.",
    "required": [],
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "title": {
            "type": "string"
        },
        "classes": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "name": {
                        "type": "string"
                    },
                    "path": {
                        "type": "string"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

See an example at JSONSchemaValidator.net

Class Documentation

DocBox's JSON strategy outputs a single class.json file for every .cfc component found in the configured source directory.

The name of the file will reflect the component name, and the location will match the source directory hierarchy:

• source/app/autos/autoBuilder.cfc becomes docs/source/app/autos/autoBuilder.json

• source/main.cfc becomes docs/source/main.json

Each component documentation file will match the following schema:

{
    "$id": "point-to-public-json-schema.json",
    "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
    "title": "Class documentation",
    "description": "Documents a single class in a ColdFusion package.",
    "required": [],
    "definitions": {
        "function" : {
            "type" : "object",
            "properties": {
                "name" : { "type" : "string" },
                "hint" : { "type" : "string" },
                "description" : { "type" : "string" },
                "access" : { "type" : "string" },
                "parameters" : {
                    "type" : "array",
                    "items": { "$ref" : "#/definitions/parameter" }
                },
                "returnType" : { "type" : "string" },
                "returnFormat" : { "type" : "string" },
                "position" : {
                    "type" : "object",
                    "properties" : {
                        "start" : { "type" : "integer" },
                        "end" : { "type" : "integer" }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "parameter" : {
            "type" : "object",
            "properties": {
                "type" : { "type" : "string" },
                "name" : { "type" : "string" },
                "required" : { "type" : "boolean" },
                "default" : { "type" : "string" }
            }
        }
    },
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
        "name" : { "type": "string" },
        "package" : { "type": "string" },
        "type" : { "type": "string" },
        "extends" : { "type" : "string" },
        "implements" : { "type" : "string" },
        "hint" : { "type" : "string" },
        "description" : { "type" : "string" },
        "properties" : {
            "description" : "Literally the component properties set via `property` or `cfproperty`.",
            "type" : "object",
            "properties": {
                "type" : { "type" : "string" },
                "name" : { "type" : "string" },
                "access" : { "type" : "string" },
                "hint" : { "type" : "string" },
                "default" : { "type" : "string" },
                "required" : { "type" : "boolean" }
            }
        },
        "constructor" : { "$ref": "#/definitions/function" },
        "functions" : {
            "type" : "array",
            "items" : { "$ref": "#/definitions/function" }
        }
    }
  }

See an example at JSONSchemaValidator.net