JDK 9 RFR of JDK-6469561,javadoc for annotation types should not display "public abstract" modifiers on methods

[Jonathan Gibbons]

Joe,

The code looks OK, but I have to wonder why the code needs any tests on 
the type of the Writer, and why it cannot do all the necessary analysis 
on member and its enclosing element.

-- Jon


On 02/13/2016 06:18 PM, joe darcy wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Please review the fix for
>
>      JDK-6469561,javadoc for annotation types should not display 
> "public abstract" modifiers on methods
>     http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~darcy/6469561.0/
>
> In brief, just as methods on interface types are implicitly public and 
> abstract, so are methods on annotation types (technically annotation 
> types are a special kind of interface type). While javadoc elides 
> "public abstract" for methods on interfaces, it does not do so for 
> methods on annotation type.
>
> The patch makes the behavior of javadoc consistent in this case.
>
> With the patch, all langtools regression tests pass and the modified 
> test fails (as expected) if run against JDK 9 b104.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Joe