As with the rest of Chandler, its repository is a work in progress. This is reflected in the state of the various documents pertaining to it. This post attempts to list the known and maintained sources of repository documentation.

First, this blog is an attempt at listing in more or less chronological order the goings-on in the repository code base. View it as the latest repository news.

Ted’s Busy Developer’s Guide to the Chandler repository is an introduction aimed at the beginner Chandler developer of some of the main repository concepts such as the data model API, writing Chandler parcels, schema, creating a first repository, etc…

A lot of Chandler API documentation is written alongside the source code - javadoc-style - using epydoc and is automatically published as code is checked in. Most of the Chandler repository source code lives in packages under the ‘repository’ source tree, for example, the Item class is documented here.

Ted gives an up-to-date description of the capabilities of repository queries in his Chandler Query System document.

And last but not least, the source code to the chandler repository lives in both the chandler/repository and internal/chandlerdb source trees.