On Mon, 8 Nov 2021 22:40:07 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Please review a moderately simple improvement for `JavadocTester` and a
>> related new test.
>>
>> A new `OutputChecker` class is introduced that mostly supersedes the
>> existing methods to check the output generated by javadoc and the standard
>> doclet. A self-imposed restriction is that no existing tests are modified.
>>
>> The new class can be used to check files generated by the doclet and the
>> streams written by the tool. It can be configured to check for ordered
>> output or not, overlapping output, and complete coverage, and can search for
>> literal strings and regular expressions.
>>
>> There is a corresponding new test which is a non-standard use of
>> `JavadocTester`, since it is designed to test `JavadocTester` itself, and
>> not javadoc or the doclet. (Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?) Various
>> methods are overridden so that the operation of the underlying methods can
>> be checked.
>>
>> Although it is a goal to NOT modify the code of any existing tests, it turns
>> out to be reasonable to adapt some of the existing `check...` methods to use
>> the new `OutputChecker`. All javadoc tests pass, both locally and on all
>> standard platforms. Many/most uses of the existing `checkOutput` method
>> provide "ordered" strings, and are candidates to use the new ordered check.
>> But enough uses are _not_ ordered, so it is not reasonable to change the
>> default at this time. It is noted as a TODO to examine the appropriate test
>> cases, so that we can decide whether to fix those tests and change the
>> default.
>
> Jonathan Gibbons has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a
> merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains six commits:
>
> - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into
> 8273154.JavadocTester-checker
> - Address review comments
> - Add, `checkAnyOf`, update `checkUnique`, reformat some comments
> - Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/master' into
> 8273154.JavadocTester-checker
> - Merge with upstream/master
> - JDK-8273154: Provide a JavadocTester method for non-overlapping, unordered
> output matching
test/langtools/jdk/javadoc/testJavadocTester/TestJavadocTester.java line 259:
> 257: public void testOrdered() {
> 258: messages.clear();
> 259: // methods are listed alphabetiocally in the Summary table,
Suggestion:
// methods are listed alphabetically in the Summary table,
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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/5743
