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An extension to [servant-docs] that allows you to use [Pandoc] to
render your Servant API documentation.
[servant-docs]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/servant-docs
[Pandoc]: http://pandoc.org/
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.
```haskell
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:
```haskell
-- api.hs
main :: IO ()
main = makeFilter (docs myApi)
```
Then to run this:
```sh
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):
```haskell
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
```