Integrated: 8297437: javadoc cannot link to old docs (with old style anchors)

[Roman Marchenko]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 09:45:44 GMT, Roman Marchenko <rmarchenko at openjdk.org> wrote:

> As it discussed on the mail list, checking presence of "element-list" or "package-list" is good enough approach to determine which type of anchors is used in external docs. The fix is for docs generated by 'supported' platforms only, i.e. 8, 11, ...
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> This fix extends `Extern.Item` with `useOldFormId` boolean flag to indicate a type of anchor. The boolean flag is set accordingly when reading a list of elements from either "element-list" or "package-list". 
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> Name transformation is performed in `Extern.getExternalLink()` by `getOldFormHtmlName()` call when creating `DocLink` instance.
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> Type of anchors used by platform docs are hard-coded in `isOldFormPlatformDocs()` (similar to `getPlatformElementList()`), since it's not supposed to rebuild platform docs on docs.oracle.com.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 15a14884
Author:    Roman Marchenko <rmarchenko at openjdk.org>
Committer: Hannes Wallnöfer <hannesw at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/15a14884013a975707008f648b8e4864e16006ed
Stats:     144 lines in 6 files changed: 104 ins; 0 del; 40 mod

8297437: javadoc cannot link to old docs (with old style anchors)

Reviewed-by: hannesw

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/12066