On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 15:32:09 GMT, Pavel Rappo <pra...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Please have a look at this work-in-progress PR. The reason this is a
>> (normal) PR rather than a more suitable draft PR is to mainly trigger a
>> discussion on the mailing list on whether the suggested approach to solve
>> multiple intertwined issues of exception documentation inheritance is a
>> correct one.
>>
>> In a nutshell, it turns out that the combination of `{@throws}` and
>> `{@inheritDoc}` is quite complex. It's more complex than a combination of
>> `{@inheritDoc}` with any other tag or `{@inheritDoc}` on its own. To account
>> for that complexity, handling of `{@inheritDoc}` in `{@throws}` is lifted to
>> `ThrowsTaglet`.
>>
>> The said complexity stems from two facts:
>>
>> 1. Processing of `{@inheritDoc}` is context free and is done by replacing
>> `{@inheritDoc}` with the tags it expands to. That model does not account for
>> `@throws` where `{@inheritDoc}` sometimes expands to multiple `@throws`
>> tags, which correspond to _separate_ entries in the "Throws:" section of a
>> method detail. Read: we change the exception section, not a description of
>> one of its entries.
>>
>> 2. Corresponding exception types in the hierarchy (i.e. matching
>> `{@inheritDoc}` with exception documentation it must inherit) is not always
>> clear-cut. This becomes especially apparent when type variables are involved.
>>
>> History
>> -------
>>
>> The work started as an attempt to fix JDK-8285488, hence the issue number
>> for the PR. However, along its course the PR solved other issues, which will
>> be soon added to the PR:
>>
>> * 8287796: Stop auto-inheriting documentation for subclasses of exceptions
>> whose documentation is inherited
>> * 8291869: Match exceptions using types of `javax.lang.model`, not strings
>> * 8295277: Expand `{@inheritDoc}` in `@throws` fully
>> * 8288045: Clean up ParamTaglet
>> * 8288046: Clean up ThrowsTaglet
>>
>> As of today
>> -----------
>>
>> * All tests (both existing and newly introduced) pass.
>> * JDK API Documentation is the same, except for two files. In the first
>> file,
>> `docs/api/java.management.rmi/javax/management/remote/rmi/RMIConnectionImpl_Stub.html`,
>> the order of exceptions has changed, which is insignificant. As for the
>> second file, `docs/api/java.management/javax/management/MBeanServer.html`,
>> the new warning is generated and erroneous input added to the corresponding
>> page. The issue has to be addressed on the component side and is tracked by
>> JDK-8295151.
>
> Pavel Rappo has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a
> merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains 55 commits:
>
> - Merge branch 'master' into 8285488
> - refactor: typos
> - refactor: re-arrange imports conventionally
> - refactor: clean up DocFinder
> - refactor: improve comment and a catch block
> - refactor: SuppressWarning("serial")
> - refactor: improve error handling
> - refactor: clarify, reuse, simplify, clean up
> - refactor: pass Utils & BaseConfiguration to taglet
>
> This simplifies lots of methods. Later this could be done for other
> taglets too.
> - refactor: better code comments
> - ... and 45 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/37107fc1...385366d1
src/jdk.javadoc/share/classes/jdk/javadoc/internal/doclets/toolkit/taglets/ThrowsTaglet.java
line 183:
> 181: var ch = utils.getCommentHelper(f.holder());
> 182: var messages = configuration.getMessages();
> 183: if (f instanceof Failure.ExceptionTypeNotFound e) {
Suggestion:
if (f instanceof Failure.ExceptionTypeNotFound e) {
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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10746
