A toolchain for ASP.NET Core to automatically generating API documentation.

• Read XML comments at run time (so the deployment need to include yourAssembly.xml file).

• Get Enum raw constant value and XML comments.

  public enum Gender {
      /// <summary>
      /// 未知.
      /// </summary>
      Unknown,
      /// <summary>
      /// 男性.
      /// </summary>
      Male,
      /// <summary>
      /// 女性.
      /// </summary>
      Female,
  }

  {
    "0": "未知", 
    "1": "男性", 
    "2": "女性"
  }

• Generate API documentation for ASP.NET Core.

• JsonOutputFormatter use camel case or not determined by the API (Because it's API).

• More...

To integrate ApiHelp to your project, download this repo and see Host source code, running and open link api/help/ui in your browser to view the result.

• Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApiHelp.Core

  The core API toolchain for ASP.NET Core.

• Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApiHelp

  The three styles UI (Swagger, JsonH, JsonEditor) for Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApiHelp.Core.

PM> Install-Package Microsoft.AspNetCore.ApiHelp

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
    services.AddMvc()
        .AddApiHelp(options => {
            options.IgnoreObsoleteApi = true;
            options.GenerateStrategy = DocumentGenerateStrategy.Eager;
            options.IncludeSupportedMediaType = false;
        });
}

public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env, ILoggerFactory loggerFactory) {
    loggerFactory.AddConsole(Configuration.GetSection("Logging"));

    app.UseApiHelp(new ApiHelpUIOptions {
        Title = "API toolchain for ASP.NET Core",
        UI = ApiHelpUI.Swagger,
    });

    app.UseMvc();
}