RFR: 8284697: Avoid parsing the doc comment of an element that is not documented

Jonathan Gibbons jjg at openjdk.java.net
Tue Apr 19 15:48:29 UTC 2022


On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 12:08:40 GMT, Pavel Rappo <prappo at openjdk.org> wrote:

> > The way to test it would be to put errors into a doc comment, and verify that no errors are reported, strongly implying the comment was not parse
> 
> Although we could do that, we should also keep in mind that those errors weren't reported before. If such a test is run on an unfixed version, it won't fail. This is not the behaviour one would expect from a regression test.

Ah ... I see the problem: although any errors will be detected (in `DocCommentParser`) they will never get reported, to be seen by a test, because the comment will still be ignored.

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/8266


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