I'm guessing that the use of "external" is just not documented for 
coveragestores because it does appear to work for me.

--Steve

From: Jean Pommier [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 3:05 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Geoserver-users] How to improve documentation of REST?

Hi Steve,

Maybe I missed something.
Do you mean the doc generated for the REST API here ? 
http://docs.geoserver.org/2.5.x/en/user/rest/api/index.html
Because I'm still on my imagemosaic thing, and something bothers me : in the 
REST API, I saw nothing about external.imagemosaic service. Shouldn't it be 
exposed in the coveragestores section, as it is in the datastore section ? 
Datastore section documents a [file|url|external][.<extension>] service while 
coveragestores only documents file[.<extension>] service
But maybe it's just some inline doc missing in the code ?

Jean

Le 10/09/2014 17:36, Stephen Brooke a écrit :



I've had some success with documenting the "representation" classes with 
Javadoc and then using a tool that understands Spring MVC annotations to 
generate HTML documentation from the code, that way the REST API docs stay in 
sync with the code.  The onus though is on the developer working on that 
portion of the REST API to ensure that good documentation is written up in the 
Javadoc.



I have done this successfully with RESTdoclet.



This way you get full coverage of all the REST API resources available; what 
operations are allowed for those resources, the query parameters, and request 
body parameters all generated from the code (Spring MVC annotations) and 
Javadoc.



There are several other tools that do this.  Then leave it up to the community 
to add REST API usage examples as they discover more use cases for how they use 
it.



My two cents,

--Steve



-----Original Message-----

From: Rahkonen Jukka (Tike) [mailto:[email protected]]

Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 6:41 AM

To: 
'[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>'

Subject: [Geoserver-users] How to improve documentation of REST?



Hi,



REST is probably the most common topic on this list. This search finds 5208 
mails:

http://sourceforge.net/p/geoserver/mailman/search/?q=REST



I interpret that REST interests users but it is difficult to use and documents 
that we have do not cover enough use cases. We have documentation in  
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/rest/index.html and 
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/rest/api/index.html#rest-api and usage 
examples in 
http://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/user/rest/examples/index.html#rest-examples



Documentation is not bad but obviously it should be made better. Any 
suggestions about how to improve it? I believe that is should be something 
community driven or community assisted because developers are busy with other 
things and getting funding for improving documentation is just a dream.



-Jukka Rahkonen-



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