coldbox-docbox-generation

You can generate API documentation for CFML or BoxLang by configuring DocBox with source directory mappings, selecting an output strategy like HTML or JSON, and executing the generation via CLI or build tasks to produce navigable docs.

Yes, you can combine multiple output strategies in a single run. Configure DocBox to apply both HTML and JSON strategies simultaneously, producing user-facing documentation and machine-readable indexes from one execution.

Exclude test folders and build artifacts during API doc generation by defining exclude regex patterns in your DocBox configuration. This omits specified directories, dotfolders, and generated code from the final navigable documentation output.

Yes, DocBox supports UML diagram generation as an output strategy. Select the UML strategy in your configuration to automatically extract structural relationships from BoxLang or CFML source code and render them as UML diagrams.

The best way to integrate API doc generation into a ColdBox build task is to configure DocBox within your build script, define source mappings and output directories, and execute the documentation generation process automatically during the build lifecycle.

Yes, you can register custom strategy classes for bespoke API documentation output. DocBox allows you to optionally register custom strategy classes to generate specialized documentation formats tailored to your specific project requirements.