RFR: 8242564: javadoc crashes:: class cast exeception com.sun.tools.javac.code.Symtab$6

[Vladimir Petko]

On Tue, 16 Jan 2024 02:17:10 GMT, Vladimir Petko <vpetko at openjdk.org> wrote:

> '--ignore-source-errors' allows generating Javadoc for the packages that contain compilation errors. 
> 
> jdk.javadoc.internal.doclets.toolkit.util.ClassTree generates a type hierarchy for javadoc that may include error types such as 
> 
> class Foo extends Bar {
> }
> ``` 
> where Bar is undefined. 
> 
> The user still wants to generate documentation for Foo and have Bar as a text label. 
> 
> For the unknown class Bar it is impossible to detect the enclosing class/file and javadoc crashes with exception. 
> 
> This PR returns Kind.OTHER for the error types, avoiding the javadoc crash.

@jonathan-gibbons I apologise for the ping, would it be possible to take another look at this MR?

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/17435#issuecomment-1903448475