Request: Pass wildcard characters when generating model docs

[abishekrsrikaanth]

Hi Barry,

This is a request for a good to have feature, not sure how easy or difficult this is to implement. Is it possible to have wildcard characters when generating model docs

For example:

php artisan ide-helper:models User*

which will look for all the Models that starts with User and generate the docs for all of them

or

php artisan ide-helper:models %User

which will look for all the Models ending with User and generate the docs for all of them

or

php artisan ide-helper:models %User%

which will look for all the Models containing the characters User and generate the docs for all of them

[abishekrsrikaanth]

@barryvdh any luck looking into this?

[barryvdh]

Yeah it is on my list but pretty busy.
Op 12 nov. 2013 06:05 schreef "Abishek R Srikaanth" <
[email protected]>:

@barryvdh https://github.com/barryvdh any luck looking into this?

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[abishekrsrikaanth]

OK, np. I will look forward to this.

[barryvdh]

You are free to create a PR if you want off course.

[bytestream]

@barryvdh not sure that this is quite the same request, but I could do with the ability to either exclude directories similar to #135 or the ability to wildcard directories

Something simple like this might work?

$models = array();
foreach ($this->dirs as $dir) {
    foreach(glob((base_path() . '/' . $dir), GLOB_ONLYDIR) as $dir) {
        foreach (ClassMapGenerator::createMap($dir) as $model => $path) {
            $models[] = $model;
        }
    }
}

I say simple, because that allows you to only wildcard single subdirectories. You couldn't use ** any number of subdirectories. But there is this: https://gist.github.com/funkjedi/3feee27d873ae2297b8e2370a7082aad

Thoughts?

[mfn]

@abishekrsrikaanth is this still relevant? What's the use-case for generating the phpdoc for only certain models?

I checked the issues (open/closed) and this is the only one suggesting such a feature. It sounds edge-case/y and might not be worth the adding/maintaining.

@bytestream there's a config model_locations and it recently has received support for glob patterns to recursively descent into directories => #921
So I think your use-case is covered.

[mfn]

Furthermore I just realized the config already has ignored_models so I think it's already possible to achieve everything here anyway.