RFR: JDK-8307377: Remove use of `tagName` from TagletWriterImpl.linkSeeReferenceOutput

Jonathan Gibbons jjg at openjdk.org
Fri May 5 20:25:14 UTC 2023


On Thu, 4 May 2023 18:01:10 GMT, Jonathan Gibbons <jjg at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Please review a simple fix to remove unnecessary detail from in-page and console messages about the name of the tag enclosing a bad reference.

See also PR #13720 for another fix in this area

src/jdk.javadoc/share/classes/jdk/javadoc/internal/doclets/formats/html/TagletWriterImpl.java line 476:

> 474:                                            DocTree refTree,
> 475:                                            String refSignature,
> 476:                                            Element ref,

A related but different improvement would be to change this from `Element ref` to `TypeMirror refType`.
That would save a separate lookup on (new) line 542.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13811#issuecomment-1536736857
PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/13811#discussion_r1186470360


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