The stories (as well as every page you see here) are simple wiki topics, created using markdown, which is much, much simpler and friendly than good old HTML. Inside this website you can't really edit much, but in your own projects, you'll see the "edit" option activated at the bottom of each topic or page.
In markdown, for instance, you type **bold** to get bold and * list member to get
... and so on. Read more on Modified markdown syntax here, to read on the extensions we added to simple markdown and the special syntax to include photos, videos, properties etc. Also, see more detaiils in Wiki Properties.
Inside any topic, special syntax can be used to... uhh... create active content which makes the "engine" do certain interesting things.
For instance, to create a mock of a message, a single line with this directive:
$mock a.message => (payload="hello")
would instruct the engine to mock a message called a.message and return "hello" when that message shows up somehow and needs processing.
The one thing to understand syntax-wise is the escape sequence, using the backtick. Any text you escape with the back-ticks, will not be interpreted as an "instruction" but just be displayed like it is. You can also create a sequence, here it is escaped:
$mock a.message
=> ctx.echo(msg="saying hello...")
=> (payload="hello")
...and here it is not escaped (how it looks like in the page):
0 $mock::
test.mdsl.message
ctx.echo (msg="saying hello..."="saying hello...")
. (payload="hello")
As you can see, the second version looks different from the text creating it - this means that the engine understands this construct and... right now, this page contains a mock - if you sent this page the a.message message, say by clicking on this link, you'd get "hello" back.
Note that the engine automatically created a REST service and when invoked, it will execute the mocking rule above. You can jump ahead and read more about the REST bindings at Snakking REST, rest spec and rest story as well as REST and HTTP templates.
So there you have it. You can create new stories (plain wiki topics), focusing on the actual story and sprinkle some DSL syntax here and there to create "active" elements.
For instance, here is a test for the mock rule above - this will "send" the message and then check that we got the expected payload back:
send::
msg test.mdsl.message
expect:: (payload is "hello")
You can create a small, large or even huge set of stories, linked and interconnected into a coherent domain and the engine will recognize the "active elements" and act on them.
While you can mix and match the mocks and rules with testing and expectations, like we did here, you would normally separate the tests into "stories" and the specifications / definintions, into "specs".
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