RFR: JDK-8253733: Cleanup internal taglet API

[Pavel Rappo]

On Tue, 29 Sep 2020 16:42:09 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> This is a general cleanup of various classes related to the handling of tags and taglets in the standard doclet.
> 
> The initial motivation was to clean up static methods on `TagletWriter` that took a `TagletWriter` as a parameter.
> These methods are converted into instance methods, and the call sites simplified as well.
> Another area of cleanup is to make clear which methods are used for inline tags and which are used for block tags.
> 
> Some dead code is removed, and the doc comments are generally cleaned up as well.  More details are given in the JBS
> issue.

src/jdk.javadoc/share/classes/jdk/javadoc/internal/doclets/toolkit/taglets/TagletWriter.java line 282:

> 280:             } catch (UnsupportedTagletOperationException e) {
> 281:                 // malformed taglet:
> 282:                 // claims to support block tags but does not provide the appropriate method.

This deserves a more detailed explanation: what does this claim look like? (It's not obvious from reading this excerpt.)

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/406