The Zulip API is to be used on both development and production
servers, and really we just need to talk about zuliprc files.
There's a similar issue for the JS docs, but we need to fix the
copy/paste issues with those as well.
The Markdown extension that lives inside
zerver/lib/bugdown/api_code_example.py previously used ujson.
ujson's `dumps` function doesn't accept a `separators` argument,
which means we have no control over how the JSON is pretty-printed.
This resulted in JSON fixtures with no spaces after the colon, which
looks unnecessarily convoluted.
So now, we use the built-in `json` module to get around this.
For further reading, this issue
<https://github.com/esnme/ultrajson/issues/82> opened on ujson's
repo explains why they are reluctant to support such formatting
due to performance considerations.
This commit modifies the Markdown extension in bugdown/api_code_examples.py
to support rendering code examples in multiple languages by specifying
the language like so:
{generate_code_example(python)|doc.md|example}
This makes us one step closer towards adding support for testable
JavaScript code examples.
This commit adds support for passing in an argument to the macro
"call" to explicitly specify a fixture to render, like so:
{generate_code_example|doc_name|fixture(stream_message_with_args)}
To generate a code exammple,
{generate_code_example|<api_doc_md>|example} sounds better and
more intuitive than,
{generate_code_example|<api_doc_md>|method}
Some of our code examples can only be run with administrator
credentials (such as create-user). Thus, the Markdown extension
for generating code examples should have an option to include
the lines that recommend using an admin zuliprc instead of a
non-admin one.
Now that the Markdown extension defined in
zerver/lib/bugdown/api_generate_examples depended on code in the
tools/lib/* directory, it caused the production tests to fail since
the tools/ directory wouldn't exist in a production environment.
This commit adds a Markdown extension that allows the following
syntax,
{generate_code_example|<md_file_name>|<fixture or method>}
to generate code examples and fixtures found in tools/lib/api_tests.py
and templates/zerver/api/fixtures.json, respectively.
Tim Abbott
Yago González
Eeshan Garg