I think people have just stopped complaining about this request. If you go back through the archives you will see that there are mostly lots of negative responses to this feature.
The negative responses all revolve around the problem of developers not going in after using this feature and making the generated java docs useful. A more generally accepted form of this proposal is that IDEA provide help for writing the javadoc for a particular method, rather than adding them wholesale. The help could include generating a skeleton and provide tag completion. In this way the developer can generate the comments as they work or generate them afterwards. If the comments are generated automatically for whole files or projects at a time the developer will have to go in to edit the all comments anyway. +1 for javadoc generation on a single method basis +1 for a way to find methods that meet some criteria (e.g. public) but don't have Javadoc comments -10 for a way to fill source files with meaningless comments that don't convey any information beyond the method signature yet have to be read to determine that fact. -----Original Message----- From: Noah Nordrum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 09:44a To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Eap-features] Javadoc feature request. ok, this is like at least the 15th time I've seen this request (not a complaint to you Nadeem)... It is also one of the only requests that I haven't seen any complaints about. I can't imagine that this would be a very tough thing to implement. Could we PLEASE get this in Pandora? or as one of (or the) first features in the next EAP? Thanks, Noah ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shabir, Nadeem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:57 AM Subject: [Eap-features] Javadoc feature request. > I dont know if anyone has already asked for this but it would be very > useful. > > What id like is a feature that would look at all the method signatures, in a > file an insert javadoc comments infront of each method, but pre-populating > param and return lists based on the signature. This would save a lot of > time, ive used similar features in Kawa where it was implemented as a plugin > that would pass through the file and do it for you. Im not sure if IntelliJ > could also do something similar? > > Ive tried to create a live template to do this but arent having much > success. > > Any thoughts? > > cheers > > Nadeem > > > Nadeem Shabir BSc > Senior > J2EE Developer > > Data Systems & Solutions (DS&S), > PO Box No 31, > Sinfin Lane, > Derby. > DE24 8BJ. > > www.ds-s.com > > Tel : (01332) 777570 > Fax : (01332) 772647 > Mobile: (07790) 901297 > > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For optimum solutions that save you time, visit www.ds-s.com. > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-features mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
