<Swing Dev> RFR: 8264218: Public method javax.swing.JMenu.setComponentOrientation() has no spec

[Prasanta Sadhukhan]

On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 12:42:19 GMT, Alexey Ivanov <aivanov at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> A public overriding method JMenu.setComponentOrientation(java.awt.ComponentOrientation)
>> has no spec.
>> Added spec for the method.
>
> src/java.desktop/share/classes/javax/swing/JMenu.java line 1269:
> 
>> 1267:      * </ul>
>> 1268:      * @see java.awt.ComponentOrientation
>> 1269:      */
> 
> Shall it just use `{@inheritDoc}`?
> The javadoc generated in 7 and 8 does exactly this.
> 
> However, the new text explicitly mentions that this method changes not only orientation of this component but also of the associated popup menu.
> 
> I do not think the description of the parameter has to list all the values of `ComponentOrientation`, these are the only publicly available values any way. If a value is added in the future, the javadoc will become incorrect.

It is done similarly in JScrollPane which I used here...maybe there also it's an oversight then..
I will update to use @inheritdoc in this spec ...

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PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/3213