I dont know how but, I think marvin depends on it to generate command objects for the apis.
Here is a doc from CodeGenerator.py Apache CloudStack- marvin python classes can be generated from the json returned by API discovery or from the xml spec of commands generated by the ApiDocWriter. This class provides helper methods for these uses. ~Rajani On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 3:37 AM, Will Stevens <williamstev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey All, > Does anyone know if this class [1] is being used anywhere (other than by > Pierre-Luc to create the release notes [2]). > > The reason I ask is because I know Pierre-Luc spends a lot of time every > release manually changing the formatting from what is [3] output to RST > format so it can be displayed. > > I have already built a parser to generate the 'fixed issues' piece [5] of > the release notes (will be open sourced soon). > > If PL is the only person using this class I will either: > a) Modify the class to output the details in an RST format so the output > can be directly pasted into the release notes. > b) Modify the class to output structured JSON so the data can be easily > consumed by parsers. I would then write a small script to parse the JSON > and output the RST format for the RN. > > I would lean towards b) so the Java code would not have to be modified if > we changed the format of the docs to another format (like Markdown for > example). > > Worst case scenario, I will just write a parser that takes that meh layout > and output a RST table for the RNs. > > Thanks, > > Will > > [1] > > https://github.com/apache/cloudstack/blob/master/server/src/com/cloud/api/doc/ApiXmlDocReader.java > [2] https://github.com/pdion891/acs-api-commands > [3] > > https://github.com/pdion891/acs-api-commands/blob/master/diff-470-480/diff.txt > [4] > > https://raw.githubusercontent.com/apache/cloudstack-docs-rn/master/source/api-changes.rst > [5] > > https://objects-east.cloud.ca/v1/5ef827605f884961b94881e928e7a250/swill/rn.png >