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Documentation development

OSCAR uses MKDocs for the documentation. In particular, Material for MKDocs.

Install the following dependencies:

pip install mkdocs mkdocs-material mkdocs-render-swagger-plugin mike

The from the main folder oscar run:

mkdocs serve

The documentation will be available in http://127.0.0.1:8000

API documentation

To generate the OpenAPI spec from swagger comments:

swag init -g main.go -o pkg/apidocs

To serve the generated swagger.json locally with Swagger UI:

docker run --rm -p 8081:8080 \
  -e SWAGGER_JSON=/docs/swagger.json \
  -v "$(pwd)/pkg/apidocs/swagger.json:/docs/swagger.json" \
  swaggerapi/swagger-ui

Then open http://localhost:8081 to browse the API.