RFR: JDK-8258602: JavaDoc field summary does not indicate final modifier [v2]

[Hannes Wallnöfer]

On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 13:05:54 GMT, Daniel Fuchs <dfuchs at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Hi Hannes, out of curiosity - for a final class, will all members (or none) appear final in the generated documentation? Or will it depend on whether a redundant `final` keyword appears in the code or not? From your code changes, I guess it will be the latter - which makes me wonder whether we want to go that far in the API documentation. Maybe `final` should be omitted for members of a final class.

Yes, `final` will appear as it is used in the source code for method summaries of final classes. In my mind this is acceptable, analogous to both ways being allowed in the source code.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3716