apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-doc"
docs
Purpose
Generates a user guide and Javadoc + Groovydoc API documentation for the current Grails project.
Examples
Add the plugin in your build.gradle
:
Now run the command
gradle docs
Description
Some projects, particular plugins, benefit from documentation explaining how they work. Grails comes with its own documentation engine based on a wiki syntax that can generate both HTML and PDF versions of a user guide, just like the one you are currently reading. If you have the source for a user guide in src/docs
, then this command will automatically generate the corresponding HTML and PDF documents.
It’s often useful to have API documentation as well. Since Grails is a mixed source framework, the command also generates both Javadoc (the standard format for Java documentation) and Groovydoc API references in HTML form.
The documentation is generated to the following directories:
-
docs/api
- Location of javadoc comments -
docs/gapi
- Location of groovydoc comments -
docs/guide
- Location of the user guide -
docs/ref
- Location of the reference section of the user guide
Usage:
grails doc
Arguments:
-
\--init
- Create a template project documentation project (optional) -
\--pdf
- Create PDF output for project documentation (optional)
Fired Events:
-
DocStart
- Before documentation generation begins -
DocEnd
- After documentation generation completes