drafter

Drafter NPM Package

The Drafter NPM package is an API Blueprint parser for Node. This package is a wrapper around the underlying C++ parser Drafter. Drafter NPM optionally depends on the C++ binding to Drafter Protagonist. If for any reason Protagonist is not installable, this package will fallback to using the slower, pure JavaScript version of Drafter, drafter.js.

Installation

Drafter can be installed from NPM. If you want to use Drafter from a web browser, check out drafter.js.

$ npm install drafter

Usage

var drafter = require('drafter');

Once you've included drafter, you can parse an API Blueprint asynchronously:

var options = {
  generateSourcemap: true,
};

drafter.parse('# API Blueprint...', options, function(err, result) {
  if (err) {
    console.log(err);
  } else {
    console.log(result);
  }
});

Alternatively, you can use Drafter synchronously:

try {
  var result = drafter.parse('# API Blueprint...', options);
  console.log(result);
} catch (err) {
  console.log(err);
}

Parsing Options

Options can be passed to the parser as an optional second argument to both the asynchronous and synchronous interfaces:

var options = {
  generateSourceMap: true
}

drafter.parse('# My API', options, callback);

The available options are:

Name	Description
requireBlueprintName	Require parsed blueprints have a title (default: false)
generateSourceMap	Enable sourcemap generation (default: false)
type	Set the output structure type as either ast or refract (default: refract)

NOTE: The ast option is deprecated in favour of refract.

License

MIT License. See the LICENSE file.

Changelog

1.2.0

Enhancements

• Add support for validating an API Blueprint