Integrated: JDK-8315464: Uncouple AllClassesIndexWriter from IndexBuilder

Hannes Wallnöfer hannesw at openjdk.org
Fri Sep 22 19:20:20 UTC 2023


On Thu, 14 Sep 2023 16:19:06 GMT, Hannes Wallnöfer <hannesw at openjdk.org> wrote:

> My original intention with this cleanup was to keep using `[Html]IndexBuilder' for both the "All Classes" and the main index, but just improve separation of code and naming of classes. However, I then discovered two things:
> 
>  - The "All Classes" page is so simple to build that it doesn't justify using a complex builder class. In fact, moving the necessary functionality from `IndexBuilder` to `AllClassesIndexWriter` just added about a dozen lines of code to the latter, while making `IndexBuilder` much simpler by removing its dual purpose.
>  - The separation of code between `toolkit.util.IndexBuilder` and `formats.html.HtmlIndexBuilder`, although seemingly random at first sight, actually reflects the usage of functionality provided by the respective packages. Although with a single output format the separation between these packages is not as important as it used to be, it is still nice to keep things separated.
> 
> Based on these two findings, I decided to pull the "All Classes" code into "AllClassesIndexWriter", but maintain the implementation of `[Html]IndexBuilder` across the two classes/packages. Although the base `IndexBuilder` class is technically able to function on its own without the HTML-specific enhancements, I made the class abstract in order to point out that the HTML enhancements in `HtmlIndexBuilder` are actually essential for our us.

This pull request has now been integrated.

Changeset: 6b8261b8
Author:    Hannes Wallnöfer <hannesw at openjdk.org>
URL:       https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/commit/6b8261b8d6a31d1915ee0bc5f90a9b91a751d588
Stats:     136 lines in 13 files changed: 21 ins; 68 del; 47 mod

8315464: Uncouple AllClassesIndexWriter from IndexBuilder

Reviewed-by: jjg

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PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/15746


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