Add serialization utility for CLI commands for docs gen (#361)

StephenBarlow · render-oss-copybara-sync[bot] · commit b73435f5ac2a · 2026-04-06T17:28:54.000Z
* Add serialization of CLI commands for docs gen

First iteration on apiref generator

Small formatting updates to output

Add basic tests for CLI reference generation

Add GitHub action for CLI reference generation

Add comments throughout generator code

Omit everything CLI reference from the OSS repo

Split monolithic generator into concern-based files

Simplify tool to just generate JSON contract

* Preserve whitespace in contract then trim as needed

* Fix a filenaming issue

* Rename JSON generator for higher clarity

* Dedupe serialization paths and 'magic strings'

* Harden CLI JSON export generator and tooling

* Remove write-to-file for now for simplicity, stdout only

GitOrigin-RevId: 3b8172ff2e8adace73e6c26a8417a2539013151e
diff --git a/copy.bara.sky b/copy.bara.sky
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ DESTINATION_FILES = [
 
 DESTINATION_FILES_EXCLUDE = [
   ".github/workflows/copybara-push.yaml",
+  ".github/workflows/cli-json-export.yaml",
+  "tools/generate-cli-json-export/**",
 ]
 
 DEFAULT_COMITTER = "Render Engineering <dev-public@render.com>"

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`@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ DESTINATION_FILES = [`
`26`	`26`
`27`	`27`	`DESTINATION_FILES_EXCLUDE = [`
`28`	`28`	`".github/workflows/copybara-push.yaml",`
	`29`	`+ ".github/workflows/cli-json-export.yaml",`
	`30`	`+ "tools/generate-cli-json-export/**",`
`29`	`31`	`]`
`30`	`32`
`31`	`33`	`DEFAULT_COMITTER = "Render Engineering <dev-public@render.com>"`