On 25 February 2014 09:52, Oleg Kalnichevski <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 01:08 +0000, sebb wrote: >> On 24 February 2014 16:33, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: >> > +1 >> > >> > If we have a public subclass of a package private class, I should be able >> > to see all of the methods I can call on that class (and super class). >> >> That's not the case here. It's a public class using a package class. >> >> http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/httpclient-cache/apidocs/org/apache/http/impl/client/cache/ExponentialBackOffSchedulingStrategy.html#schedule%28org.apache.http.impl.client.cache.AsynchronousValidationRequest%29 >> >> Which begs the question - how is it used externally? >> >> The schedule method implements an interface so has to be public, but >> perhaps it is only intended for use internally. >> In which case the Javadoc should probably make this clear. >> > > In this package private classes ought not be referenced by public > javadocs.
Is that "package, private" or "package-private" ? However, a public method - schedule() - uses a package-private class - AsynchronousValidationRequest - as a parameter. Normally one should be able to provide links to public method parameter types. > Oleg > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
