Regolithe

This README is a work in progress

Regolithe is a library and generation tool you can use to author and generate data models from yaml-based specification. It is agnostic in term of output language but provides out of the box a JSON Schema generator as well as a Markdown documentation generator. The library exposes a function that lets you configure a Cobra command you can integrate to your own generation tool. The reference implementation is Elemental, that generates Go model for the Bahamut Stack.

Specification Set

Regolithe is basically a specification on how to write specifications, called Specification Set. A Specification Set is a set of standalone Specification files that are bound together by defining relationship.

For instance, we can imagine having:

• A Task specification file (task.spec)
• A List specification file (list.spec)
• A relationship allowing to get Task from a List.

Here's an example specification for the Item:

model:
  rest_name: task
  resource_name: tasks
  entity_name: Task
  package: example
  group: core
  description: Task you have to do.
  get:
    description: Retrieves the Task with the given ID.
  update:
    description: Updates the Task with the given ID.
  delete:
    description: Deletes the Task with the given ID.
  extends:
  - '@identifiable'

# Ordering
default_order:
- :no-inherit
- date

# Indexes
indexes:
- - status

# Attributes
attributes:
  v1:
  - name: description
    description: Description of the Task.
    type: string
    exposed: true
    stored: true
    required: true
    example_value: Buy milk

  - name: status
    description: The status of the Task
    type: enum
    exposed: true
    stored: true
    allowed_choices:
    - TODO
    - DONE
    - HOLD
    default_value: TODO

And here's an example specification for a List holding them:

model:
  rest_name: list
  resource_name: lists
  entity_name: List
  package: example
  group: core
  description: List of Tasks.
  get:
    description: Retrieves the List with the given ID.
  update:
    description: Updates the List with the given ID.
  delete:
    description: Deletes the List with the given ID.
  extends:
  - '@identifiable'

# Attributes
attributes:
  v1:
  - name: name
    description: Name of the list.
    type: string
    exposed: true
    stored: true
    required: true
    example_value: Buy milk

# Relations
relations:
- rest_name: task
  get:
    description: Retrieve the tasks in the list
    parameters:
      entries:
      - name: status
        description: Only get tasks with a specific status.
        type: enum
        allowed_choices:
        - TODO
        - DONE
        - HOLD

  create:
    description: Create a new task in the list.

Specification sections

Model

TODO: describe the model section of a spec file TODO: describe detached specs

Attributes

TODO: describe the attributes properties

Relationship

TODO: describe how to create hierarchy

Type Mappings

TODO: describe how to map external types to an attribute

Validation Mappings

TODO: describe how to create attribute and full model validation functions