- Overview
- Technical requirements
- Specification requirements
- Supported protocols
- How to use the template
- Template configuration
- Custom hooks that you can disable
- Development
- Contributors
This template generates an HTML page with an overview of the data model provided in your AsyncAPI file. Its core part is the diagram showing relations between the data model. Except for HTML, you can also generate a PDF file from the HTML page or get the diagram into a separate PNG and SVG.
- 1.1.0 =< Generator < 2.0.0,
- Generator specific requirements
The table contains information on parts of the specification required by this template to generate the proper output.
Property name | Reason | Fallback | Default |
---|---|---|---|
components.schemas |
This template supports only schemas that have unique and human-readable names. Such names can also be provided if schemas are described under components.schemas and each schema is a separate object with its unique key. |
- | - |
This template doesn't generate code and therefore is not limited to any specific protocols.
This template must be used with the AsyncAPI Generator. You can find all available options here.
npm install -g @asyncapi/generator
ag https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asyncapi/generator/v1.0.1/test/docs/dummy.yml https://github.com/asyncapi/template-for-generator-templates -o output
open output/index.html
docker run --rm -it \
-v ${PWD}/output:/app/output \
asyncapi/generator -o /app/output https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asyncapi/generator/v1.0.1/test/docs/dummy.yml https://github.com/asyncapi/template-for-generator-templates --force-write
You can configure this template by passing different parameters in the Generator CLI: -p PARAM1_NAME=PARAM1_VALUE -p PARAM2_NAME=PARAM2_VALUE
Name | Description | Required | Default | Allowed Values | Example |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
asyncapiFileDir | Custom location of the AsyncAPI file that you provided as an input in a generation. | No | The root of the output directory. | Path to the custom directory relative to the root of output directory provided as a string. | /custom/dir |
Generates PDF from initially generated HTML file. | No | false |
true /false
|
true |
|
png | Generates PNG with a schemas relations diagram. | No | false |
true /false
|
true |
svg | Generates SVG with a schemas relations diagram. | No | false |
true /false
|
true |
maxTextSize | It is possible that if an AsyncAPI document is extremely large, the default mermaid recommended text size will not be enough. In such a case, you need to configure it explicitly. | No | 50000 |
A number higher than 50000 | 70000 |
The functionality of this template is extended with different hooks that you can disable like this in the Generator CLI: -d HOOK_TYPE1=HOOK_NAME1,HOOK_NAME2 -d HOOK_TYPE2
Type | Name | Description |
---|---|---|
generate:after | createAsyncapiFile | It creates AsyncAPI file with content of the spec file passed to the generator |
The most straightforward command to use this template is:
ag https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asyncapi/generator/v1.0.1/test/docs/dummy.yml https://github.com/asyncapi/template-for-generator-templates -o output
For local development, you need different variations of this command. First of all, you need to know about three important CLI flags:
-
--debug
enables the debug mode in Nunjucks engine what makes filters debugging simpler. -
--watch-template
enables a watcher of changes that you make in the template. It regenerates your template whenever it detects a change. -
--install
enforces reinstallation of the template.
There are two ways you can work on template development:
- Use global Generator and template from your local sources:
# assumption is that you run this command from the root of your template ag https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asyncapi/generator/v1.0.1/test/docs/dummy.yml ./ -o output
- Use Generator from sources and template also from local sources. This approach enables more debugging options with awesome
console.log
in the Generator sources or even the Parser located innode_modules
of the Generator:# assumption is that you run this command from the root of your template # assumption is that generator sources are cloned on the same level as the template ../generator/cli.js https://raw.githubusercontent.com/asyncapi/generator/v1.0.1/test/docs/dummy.yml ./ -o output