On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:39:14 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org> wrote:

> This addresses an oversight in the support for records.
> 
> The fix could have been as simple as a one-word addition to a list of element 
> kinds to check for nested classes. However, instead of that, the fix is more 
> of a cleanup of a group of methods in `Utils` to fix this issue and to reduce 
> the likelihood of anything similar happening again, when the next new kind of 
> class is added.
> 
> The cleanup uses new code idioms using lambdas, predicates, and generic 
> methods to replace varargs and temporary sets and copying lists.  The naming 
> is somewhat cleaned up as well, but it was a self-imposed restriction that 
> the cleanup is limited to the `Utils` class, and does not leak into clients 
> of the class.
> 
> There is a core `getItems` method which is somewhat multi-purpose, supporting 
> recursive and non-recursive use, and examining either just documented members 
> or all members, including members that are not directly documented. (The 
> latter occurs mostly in serialization.)   It is possible there is a future 
> refactoring to further improve this method, perhaps to break it into 
> different methods.  With that in mind, the signature of some methods was 
> narrowed from accepting any `Element` to a specific kind of element: 
> generally, one of `PackageElement` or `TypeElement`.
> 
> A new test is provided that checks that all the expected files are generated 
> for various kinds of nested classes and interfaces in all kinds of classes 
> and interfaces. The test is designed to fail if a new kind of class or 
> interface is added in future without a corresponding update to the test.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 947d69df
Author:    Jonathan Gibbons <j...@openjdk.org>
URL:       
https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/commit/947d69df045fa97f56f4eeb5de7f338e169441fc
Stats:     490 lines in 2 files changed: 270 ins; 105 del; 115 mod

8265042: javadoc HTML files not generated for types nested in records

Reviewed-by: hannesw

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3821

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