Feedback on improved Javadoc search

[Martin Buchholz]

Maybe not quite what you want, but:
- javadoc search is awesome!
- I'd like a snippet of html so I can embed a doc search box in my own home
page.
- I'd like (browser-specific) instructions so that I can do a search from
my browser's address bar.
- I'd like a help button so I can easily look up the semantics of API
search, especially as it acquires more convenient but hard-to-discover
features.
- Where is the definitive source of information on javadoc search?  The JEP
itself is frozen now.
- If I right-mouse-click on "SEARCH" the previous word "METHOD" is also
highlighted, and Chrome offers to do a Google search on "METHODSEARCH"
("""did you mean METHOD SEARCH?""" Nope.)

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 7:57 AM Hannes Wallnöfer <
hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I’m looking for feedback on the Javadoc search feature which I’ve been
> trying to improve.
>
> A prototype is available for testing here:
>
>    http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~hannesw/8178982/api.03/
>
> A short list of things that are changed compared to the current
> implementation:
>
>   - Match against word boundaries instead of anywhere in a name, e.g. `in`
> will match `invoke` but not `print`
>
>   - Allow search to go all the way from package name to member name
>
>   - Allow partial/camel case style matches anywhere, e.g. `j.l.Obj.e` will
> match `java.lang.Object.equals(Object)`
>
>   - Try to provide better ranking of results and suppress peripheral
> matches
>
> I’m interested in feedback of any kind: how it works for you, whether or
> not it supports your search habits, and whether the results are what you
> expect them to be.
>
> Thanks,
> Hannes
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