added --conf option to pass jsdoc config. Fixes #3 and jsdoc2md/jsdoc-to-markdown#45

Author: 75lb

README.md

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ For use within your node.js app.
 $ npm install jsdoc-parse --save
 ```
 
-##API Reference
+## API Reference
   Exports a single function to parse jsdoc data.
 
 **Example**  

jsdoc2md/README.hbs

@@ -213,7 +213,7 @@ For use within your node.js app.
 $ npm install jsdoc-parse --save
 ```
 
-##API Reference
+## API Reference
 {{#module name="jsdoc-parse"~}}
   {{>body~}}
   {{>member-index~}}

lib/cli-options.js

@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@ exports.definitions = [
     type: Boolean,
     description: 'Enable experimental parsing of .html files'
   },
+  {
+    name: 'conf',
+    type: String,
+    typeLabel: '[underline]{file}',
+    description: 'Jsdoc config file.'
+  },
   {
     name: 'sort-by',
     type: String,

lib/jsdoc-parse.js

@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ var fs = require('fs')
 var mfs = require('more-fs')
 var fileSet = require('file-set')
 var Transform = require('stream').Transform
-var walkBack = require('walk-back')
 var cliOptions = require('./cli-options')
 
 /**
@@ -151,7 +150,7 @@ function OutputTransform (options) {
   this._flush = function () {
     try {
       this.json = applyOptions(this.json, options)
-    } catch(err) {
+    } catch (err) {
       err.message += ' [Problem parsing the JSON data output by jsdoc, input data: ' + this.json.toString().substr(0, 100) + ']'
       return this.emit('error', err)
     }
@@ -168,20 +167,22 @@ Uses `publish.js` as a template and the [`plugins/parseHtml`](https://github.com
 */
 function getJsdocOutput (src, options, done) {
   var jsdocTemplatePath = path.resolve(__dirname, '..', 'lib')
-  var jsdocPath = walkBack(
-    path.join(__dirname, '..'),
-    path.join('node_modules', 'jsdoc-75lb', 'jsdoc.js')
-  )
+  var jsdocPath = path.resolve(__dirname, '../node_modules/.bin/jsdoc')
 
-  if (!jsdocPath) {
-    throw Error('jsdoc-parse: cannot find jsdoc')
+  if (!fs.existsSync(jsdocPath)) {
+    throw Error('jsdoc-parse: cannot find jsdoc: ' + jsdocPath)
   }
   var args = [ jsdocPath, '--pedantic', '-t', jsdocTemplatePath ]
   if (options.html) {
     args = args.concat([
       '-c',
       path.resolve(__dirname, 'conf.json')
     ])
+  } else if (options.conf) {
+    args = args.concat([
+      '-c',
+      path.resolve(options.conf)
+    ])
   }
   args = args.concat(src)
 

package.json

@@ -29,8 +29,7 @@
     "file-set": "~0.2.1",
     "jsdoc-75lb": "^3.4.1",
     "more-fs": "~0.5.0",
-    "object-tools": "^2",
-    "walk-back": "^1"
+    "object-tools": "^2"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "tape": "^4"