using System; using System.Globalization; using System.Linq; using System.Reflection; using System.Web.Http.Controllers; using System.Web.Http.Description; using System.Xml.XPath; namespace InterfaceWebApi.Areas.HelpPage { /// /// A custom that reads the API documentation from an XML documentation file. /// public class XmlDocumentationProvider : IDocumentationProvider { private XPathNavigator _documentNavigator; private const string MethodExpression = "/doc/members/member[@name='M:{0}']"; private const string ParameterExpression = "param[@name='{0}']"; /// /// Initializes a new instance of the class. /// /// The physical path to XML document. public XmlDocumentationProvider(string documentPath) { if (documentPath == null) { throw new ArgumentNullException("documentPath"); } XPathDocument xpath = new XPathDocument(documentPath); _documentNavigator = xpath.CreateNavigator(); } public virtual string GetDocumentation(HttpActionDescriptor actionDescriptor) { XPathNavigator methodNode = GetMethodNode(actionDescriptor); if (methodNode != null) { XPathNavigator summaryNode = methodNode.SelectSingleNode("summary"); if (summaryNode != null) { return summaryNode.Value.Trim(); } } return null; } public virtual string GetDocumentation(HttpParameterDescriptor parameterDescriptor) { ReflectedHttpParameterDescriptor reflectedParameterDescriptor = parameterDescriptor as ReflectedHttpParameterDescriptor; if (reflectedParameterDescriptor != null) { XPathNavigator methodNode = GetMethodNode(reflectedParameterDescriptor.ActionDescriptor); if (methodNode != null) { string parameterName = reflectedParameterDescriptor.ParameterInfo.Name; XPathNavigator parameterNode = methodNode.SelectSingleNode(String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, ParameterExpression, parameterName)); if (parameterNode != null) { return parameterNode.Value.Trim(); } } } return null; } private XPathNavigator GetMethodNode(HttpActionDescriptor actionDescriptor) { ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor reflectedActionDescriptor = actionDescriptor as ReflectedHttpActionDescriptor; if (reflectedActionDescriptor != null) { string selectExpression = String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, MethodExpression, GetMemberName(reflectedActionDescriptor.MethodInfo)); return _documentNavigator.SelectSingleNode(selectExpression); } return null; } private static string GetMemberName(MethodInfo method) { string name = String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0}.{1}", method.DeclaringType.FullName, method.Name); ParameterInfo[] parameters = method.GetParameters(); if (parameters.Length != 0) { string[] parameterTypeNames = parameters.Select(param => GetTypeName(param.ParameterType)).ToArray(); name += String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "({0})", String.Join(",", parameterTypeNames)); } return name; } private static string GetTypeName(Type type) { if (type.IsGenericType) { // Format the generic type name to something like: Generic{System.Int32,System.String} Type genericType = type.GetGenericTypeDefinition(); Type[] genericArguments = type.GetGenericArguments(); string typeName = genericType.FullName; // Trim the generic parameter counts from the name typeName = typeName.Substring(0, typeName.IndexOf('`')); string[] argumentTypeNames = genericArguments.Select(t => GetTypeName(t)).ToArray(); return String.Format(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture, "{0}{{{1}}}", typeName, String.Join(",", argumentTypeNames)); } return type.FullName; } } }