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+# Generating ReStructured Text Docs For Your Own cobra.Command
+
+Generating ReST pages from a cobra command is incredibly easy. An example is as follows:
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+ "log"
+
+ "github.com/spf13/cobra"
+ "github.com/spf13/cobra/doc"
+)
+
+func main() {
+ cmd := &cobra.Command{
+ Use: "test",
+ Short: "my test program",
+ }
+ err := doc.GenReSTTree(cmd, "/tmp")
+ if err != nil {
+ log.Fatal(err)
+ }
+}
+```
+
+That will get you a ReST document `/tmp/test.rst`
+
+## Generate ReST docs for the entire command tree
+
+This program can actually generate docs for the kubectl command in the kubernetes project
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+ "log"
+ "io/ioutil"
+ "os"
+
+ "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd"
+ cmdutil "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/kubectl/cmd/util"
+
+ "github.com/spf13/cobra/doc"
+)
+
+func main() {
+ kubectl := cmd.NewKubectlCommand(cmdutil.NewFactory(nil), os.Stdin, ioutil.Discard, ioutil.Discard)
+ err := doc.GenReSTTree(kubectl, "./")
+ if err != nil {
+ log.Fatal(err)
+ }
+}
+```
+
+This will generate a whole series of files, one for each command in the tree, in the directory specified (in this case "./")
+
+## Generate ReST docs for a single command
+
+You may wish to have more control over the output, or only generate for a single command, instead of the entire command tree. If this is the case you may prefer to `GenReST` instead of `GenReSTTree`
+
+```go
+ out := new(bytes.Buffer)
+ err := doc.GenReST(cmd, out)
+ if err != nil {
+ log.Fatal(err)
+ }
+```
+
+This will write the ReST doc for ONLY "cmd" into the out, buffer.
+
+## Customize the output
+
+Both `GenReST` and `GenReSTTree` have alternate versions with callbacks to get some control of the output:
+
+```go
+func GenReSTTreeCustom(cmd *Command, dir string, filePrepender func(string) string, linkHandler func(string, string) string) error {
+ //...
+}
+```
+
+```go
+func GenReSTCustom(cmd *Command, out *bytes.Buffer, linkHandler func(string, string) string) error {
+ //...
+}
+```
+
+The `filePrepender` will prepend the return value given the full filepath to the rendered ReST file. A common use case is to add front matter to use the generated documentation with [Hugo](http://gohugo.io/):
+
+```go
+const fmTemplate = `---
+date: %s
+title: "%s"
+slug: %s
+url: %s
+---
+`
+filePrepender := func(filename string) string {
+ now := time.Now().Format(time.RFC3339)
+ name := filepath.Base(filename)
+ base := strings.TrimSuffix(name, path.Ext(name))
+ url := "/commands/" + strings.ToLower(base) + "/"
+ return fmt.Sprintf(fmTemplate, now, strings.Replace(base, "_", " ", -1), base, url)
+}
+```
+
+The `linkHandler` can be used to customize the rendered links to the commands, given a command name and reference. This is useful while converting rst to html or while generating documentation with tools like Sphinx where `:ref:` is used:
+
+```go
+// Sphinx cross-referencing format
+linkHandler := func(name, ref string) string {
+ return fmt.Sprintf(":ref:`%s <%s>`", name, ref)
+}
+```