elasticsearch/docs/reference/esql/functions/README.md
Nik Everett 96227a1970
ESQL: Generate kibana inline docs (#106782)
This takes a stab at generating the markdown files that Kibana uses for
its inline help. It doesn't include all of the examples because the
`@Example` annotation is not filled in - we're tracking that in
https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/issues/104247#issuecomment-2018944371

There are some links in the output and they are in markdown syntax. We
should figure out how to make them work for kibana.
2024-04-09 14:19:48 -04:00

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The files in these subdirectories are generated by ESQL's test suite:

  • description - description of each function scraped from @FunctionInfo#description
  • examples - examples of each function scraped from @FunctionInfo#examples
  • parameters - description of each function's parameters scraped from @Param
  • signature - railroad diagram of the syntax to invoke each function
  • types - a table of each combination of support type for each parameter. These are generated from tests.
  • layout - a fully generated description for each function
  • kibana/definition - function definitions for kibana's ESQL editor
  • kibana/docs - the inline docs for kibana

Most functions can use the generated docs generated in the layout directory. If we need something more custom for the function we can make a file in this directory that can include:: any parts of the files above.

To regenerate the files for a function run its tests using gradle:

./gradlew :x-pack:plugin:esql:test -Dtests.class='*SinTests'

To regenerate the files for all functions run all of ESQL's tests using gradle:

./gradlew :x-pack:plugin:esql:test