RFR: JDK-8200337: Generalize see and link tags for user-defined anchors [v4]

Hannes Wallnöfer hannesw at openjdk.org
Fri Oct 7 13:51:23 UTC 2022


> Please review a a new feature to allow `@link`, `@linkplain` and `@see` tags to link to arbitrary URI fragments in the generated documentation (including in auxiliary `doc-files` documentation).
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> The changes in module `jdk.compiler` are mostly cleanup changes retained from earlier versions of the patch. The current proposed version uses a very simple change in `ReferenceParser` to avoid parsing the member name section of the reference when a non-member fragment is encountered.
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> The implementation introduces a new form of reference with a double hash mark (`##`) separator. This is a change from the previous implementation which also auto-recognized URI fragments and documentation paths by looking for `-` characters which are not allowed in member names. This feature was removed upon further consideration because it makes the feature more complex and less recognizable.
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> Links to auxiliary documentation files follow the same rules. They are recognized by looking for `/` characters in the fragment name. This means that ordinary `id` attribute values must not contain `/`, while auxiliary file paths must contain a `/` character. Both restrictions should be easy to sustain.
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> One thing that is difficult for this feature is to provide a good link label if no label is supplied in the tag. In contrast to program element names a fragment name does usually not make a good human readable name. The solution is to use the fragment name as default label text. I expect that the feature will usually be used with a user provided label.

Hannes Wallnöfer has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:

  Remove aux doc file reference feature

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Changes:
  - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10395/files
  - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10395/files/e0d6f5e7..d327ed76

Webrevs:
 - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10395&range=03
 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=10395&range=02-03

  Stats: 27 lines in 4 files changed: 0 ins; 23 del; 4 mod
  Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10395.diff
  Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk pull/10395/head:pull/10395

PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10395


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