Slicer API documentation

This project hosts the Slicer API documentation served from http://apidocs.slicer.org.

Automatic generation

Documentation is automatically generated and pushed to the gh-pages branch configured as a GitHub Pages source.

The slicer-apidocs-builder tool is used within a CircleCI build to checkout Slicer source code, build doxygen documentation and publish generated html pages.

Each time the main branch of https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer is updated or each time a new release tag is pushed, the generated documentation is either added to the main folder or added to a new folder named after the release tag. Then the updated content is pushed to the gh-pages branch.

The simple GitHub post-receive web hook handler triggering a CircleCI build is github-circleci-trigger. It is implemented as a Flask application hosted on a free heroku instance.

Squash of gh-pages branch using a scheduled GitHub Actions worklfow

After some time, the amount of data published on the gh-pages exceeds GitHub recommended size of 1GB. To cleanup the repository, a scheduled workflow associated with this project will be triggered weekly and will execute gh-pages-squash.sh script.

The script simply do a soft reset, amend the first commit and force push the branch gh-pages.

Programmatically request updates of gh-pages branch using GitHub API

Prequisites

• Generate GitHub token - See here

Squash gh-pages

This is useful to debug the workflow without having to wait.

GITHUB_TOKEN=<YOUR_GITHUB_TOKEN> ./trigger-workflow-squash.sh

license

It is covered by the Slicer License:

https://github.com/Slicer/apidocs.slicer.org/blob/main/License.txt