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Sunshine: Document the API using OpenAPI

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp, openapi
Domain
api, documentation

Research direction

Start by reviewing the existing work in PR #3540 for the Sunshine API and the issue's concern about generating OpenAPI documentation for C++. Determine the documentation scope and how the API should be represented without an automatic generator. Done means the API is documented using OpenAPI and the resulting documentation is complete enough to replace the current approach.

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Description

3-6 months C++ documentation effort:Large LizardByte/Sunshine planned priority:Medium
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LizardByte/Sunshine

Languages/Skills/Technologies

Documentation, C++

Description

OpenAPI is the standard way to document APIs, let's try to move to that.

A PR has been started for this work although it is quite overwhelming as there is no auto generator for C++ (at least when using Simple-Web-Server). https://github.com/LizardByte/Sunshine/pull/3540

Estimated Effort

effort:Large

Priority

priority:Medium

Target Milestone

3-6 months

Dependencies

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Stars
2
Forks
0
Avg merge
21m
Merged PRs (30d)
7

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