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Support for multiple source paths

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Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
go, kubernetes

Research direction

Start in processor/processor.go, where source paths are parsed, and read the controller-tools LoadRoots API referenced in the issue. Done means the generator accepts multiple source paths so each CRD can be documented together with its shared common directory, without relying on config.yaml exclusions.

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Description

enhancement

When generating docs for the operator with mutliple CRDs in different paths, it would be nice to specify multiple source paths. For ex, in the following folder structure -

api
- crd1
- crd2
- common

common contains shared structs used by both crd1 and crd2 CRDs. To generate adocs for crd1, I would have to pass folders crd1 and common. Similarly crd2 and common folders if I want docs for crd2.

I looked at the code that parses the source paths (processor/processor.go) and found out that the controller-tools has a LoadRoots api that supports reading from multiple source paths. So it shouldnt be too complex to support multiple source paths.

As a workaround to this problem, we are using config.yaml to exclude types in each adoc.

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