On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 00:41:05 GMT, Kumar Srinivasan <ksr...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> This is a small cleanup to remove an annoying extra parameter (docEnv) being
>> based around when creating the doclet.
>>
>> (there's a hint of the old world too, when it is referred to as "rd" in one
>> place, short for "RootDoc": the
>> corresponding class in the old world ;-) )
>
> src/jdk.javadoc/share/classes/jdk/javadoc/internal/doclets/formats/html/SourceToHTMLConverter.java
> line 119:
>
>> 117:
>> 118: void generate() throws DocFileIOException, SimpleDocletException {
>> 119: if (docEnv == null || outputdir == null) {
>
> Why was it checking for docEnv or RootDoc being null ? Was this ever being
> called without RootDoc being initialized ?
It's hard to believe the value was ever null, at least in normal operation.
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/672
