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/**
* The Doclet API provides an environment which, in conjunction with
* the Language Model API and Compiler Tree API, allows clients
* to inspect the source-level structures of programs and
* libraries, including API comments embedded in the source.
*
*
* The {@link StandardDoclet standard doclet} can be used to
* generate HTML-formatted documentation. It supports user-defined
* {@link Taglet taglets}, which can be used to generate customized
* output for user-defined tags in documentation comments.
*
*
* Note: The declarations in this package supersede those
* in the older package {@code com.sun.javadoc}. For details on the
* mapping of old types to new types, see the
* Migration Guide.
*
*
*
* Doclets are invoked by javadoc and this API can be used to write out
* program information to files. For example, the standard doclet is
* invoked by default, to generate HTML documentation.
*
* The invocation is defined by the interface {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet}
* -- the {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet#run(DocletEnvironment) run} interface
* method, defines the entry point.
*
* public boolean run(DocletEnvironment environment)
*
* The {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.DocletEnvironment} instance holds the
* environment that the doclet will be initialized with. From this environment
* all other information can be extracted, in the form of
* {@link javax.lang.model.element.Element elements}. One can further use the APIs and utilities
* described by {@link javax.lang.model Language Model API} to query Elements and Types.
* Terminology
*
*
* - Selected
* - An element is considered to be selected, if the
* selection controls allow it
* to be documented. (Note that synthetic elements are never
* selected.)
*
*
* - Specified
* - The set of elements specified by the user are considered to be specified
* elements. Specified elements provide the starting points
* for determining the included elements to be documented.
*
*
* - Included
* - An element is considered to be included, if it is
* specified if it contains a specified element,
* or it is enclosed in a specified element, and is selected.
* Included elements will be documented.
*
*
*
* Options
* Javadoc selection control can be specified with these options
* as follows:
*
* - {@code --show-members:value} and {@code --show-types:value} can
* be used to filter the members, with the following values:
*
* - public -- considers only public elements
*
- protected -- considers public and protected elements
*
- package -- considers public, protected and package private elements
*
- private -- considers all elements
*
*
* - {@code --show-packages:value} "exported" or "all" can be used
* to consider only exported packages or all packages within a module.
*
*
- {@code --show-module-contents:value} can be used to specify the level at
* module declarations could be documented. A value of "api" indicates API
* level documentation, and "all" indicates detailed documentation.
*
* The following options can be used to specify the elements to be documented:
*
* - {@code --module} documents the specified modules.
*
*
- {@code --expand-requires:value} expand the set of modules to be documented
* by including some or all of the modules dependencies. The value may be
* one of:
*
* - transitive -- each module specified explicitly on the command line is
* expanded to include the closure of its transitive dependencies
*
- all -- each module specified explicitly on the command line
* is expanded to include the closure of its transitive dependencies,
* and also all of its direct dependencies
*
* By default, only the specified modules will be considered, without expansion
* of the module dependencies.
*
* - {@code packagenames} can be used to specify packages.
*
- {@code -subpackages} can be used to recursively load packages.
*
- {@code -exclude} can be used exclude package directories.
*
- {@code sourcefilenames} can be used to specify source file names.
*
* Interactions with older options.
*
* The new {@code --show-*} options provide a more detailed replacement
* for the older options {@code -public}, {@code -protected}, {@code -package}, {@code -private}.
* Alternatively, the older options can continue to be used as shorter
* forms for combinations of the new options, as described below:
*
* Short form options mapping
*
*
* Older option
*
* Equivalent to these values with the new option
* {@code --show-members}
* {@code --show-types}
* {@code --show-packages}
* {@code --show-module-contents}
*
*
* {@code -public}
* public
* public
* exported
* api
* {@code -protected}
* protected
* protected
* exported
* api
* {@code -package}
* package
* package
* all
* all
* {@code -private}
* private
* private
* all
* all
*
*
*
*
* A qualified element name is one that has its package
* name prepended to it, such as {@code java.lang.String}. A non-qualified
* name has no package name, such as {@code String}.
*
Example
*
* The following is an example doclet that displays information of a class
* and its members, supporting an option.
*
* // note imports deleted for clarity
* public class Example implements Doclet {
* Reporter reporter;
* @Override
* public void init(Locale locale, Reporter reporter) {
* reporter.print(Kind.NOTE, "Doclet using locale: " + locale);
* this.reporter = reporter;
* }
*
* public void printElement(DocTrees trees, Element e) {
* DocCommentTree docCommentTree = trees.getDocCommentTree(e);
* if (docCommentTree != null) {
* System.out.println("Element (" + e.getKind() + ": "
* + e + ") has the following comments:");
* System.out.println("Entire body: " + docCommentTree.getFullBody());
* System.out.println("Block tags: " + docCommentTree.getBlockTags());
* }
* }
*
* @Override
* public boolean run(DocletEnvironment docEnv) {
* reporter.print(Kind.NOTE, "overviewfile: " + overviewfile);
* // get the DocTrees utility class to access document comments
* DocTrees docTrees = docEnv.getDocTrees();
*
* // location of an element in the same directory as overview.html
* try {
* Element e = ElementFilter.typesIn(docEnv.getSpecifiedElements()).iterator().next();
* DocCommentTree docCommentTree
* = docTrees.getDocCommentTree(e, overviewfile);
* if (docCommentTree != null) {
* System.out.println("Overview html: " + docCommentTree.getFullBody());
* }
* } catch (IOException missing) {
* reporter.print(Kind.ERROR, "No overview.html found.");
* }
*
* for (TypeElement t : ElementFilter.typesIn(docEnv.getIncludedElements())) {
* System.out.println(t.getKind() + ":" + t);
* for (Element e : t.getEnclosedElements()) {
* printElement(docTrees, e);
* }
* }
* return true;
* }
*
* @Override
* public String getName() {
* return "Example";
* }
*
* private String overviewfile;
*
* @Override
* public Set<? extends Option> getSupportedOptions() {
* Option[] options = {
* new Option() {
* private final List<String> someOption = Arrays.asList(
* "-overviewfile",
* "--overview-file",
* "-o"
* );
*
* @Override
* public int getArgumentCount() {
* return 1;
* }
*
* @Override
* public String getDescription() {
* return "an option with aliases";
* }
*
* @Override
* public Option.Kind getKind() {
* return Option.Kind.STANDARD;
* }
*
* @Override
* public List<String> getNames() {
* return someOption;
* }
*
* @Override
* public String getParameters() {
* return "file";
* }
*
* @Override
* public boolean process(String opt, List<String> arguments) {
* overviewfile = arguments.get(0);
* return true;
* }
* }
* };
* return new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList(options));
* }
*
* @Override
* public SourceVersion getSupportedSourceVersion() {
* // support the latest release
* return SourceVersion.latest();
* }
* }
*
*
* This doclet can be invoked with a command line, such as:
*
* javadoc -doclet Example \
* -overviewfile overview.html \
* -sourcepath source-location \
* source-location/Example.java
*
*
* Migration Guide
*
* Many of the types in the old {@code com.sun.javadoc} API do not have equivalents in this
* package. Instead, types in the {@code javax.lang.model} and {@code com.sun.source} APIs
* are used instead.
*
*
The following table gives a guide to the mapping from old types to their replacements.
* In some cases, there is no direct equivalent.
*
*
* Guide for mapping old types to new types
*
* Old Type New Type
*
*
* {@code AnnotatedType} {@link javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror}
* {@code AnnotationDesc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationMirror javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationMirror}
* {@code AnnotationDesc.ElementValuePair} {@link javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationValue javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationValue}
* {@code AnnotationTypeDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement}
* {@code AnnotationTypeElementDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement}
* {@code AnnotationValue} {@link javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationValue javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationValue}
* {@code ClassDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement}
* {@code ConstructorDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement}
* {@code Doc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.Element javax.lang.model.element.Element}
* {@code DocErrorReporter} {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.Reporter jdk.javadoc.doclet.Reporter}
* {@code Doclet} {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet}
* {@code ExecutableMemberDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement}
* {@code FieldDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.VariableElement javax.lang.model.element.VariableElement}
* {@code LanguageVersion} {@link javax.lang.model.SourceVersion javax.lang.model.SourceVersion}
* {@code MemberDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.Element javax.lang.model.element.Element}
* {@code MethodDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement}
* {@code PackageDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.PackageElement javax.lang.model.element.PackageElement}
* {@code Parameter} {@link javax.lang.model.element.VariableElement javax.lang.model.element.VariableElement}
* {@code ParameterizedType} {@link javax.lang.model.type.DeclaredType javax.lang.model.type.DeclaredType}
* {@code ParamTag} {@link com.sun.source.doctree.ParamTree com.sun.source.doctree.ParamTree}
* {@code ProgramElementDoc} {@link javax.lang.model.element.Element javax.lang.model.element.Element}
* {@code RootDoc} {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.DocletEnvironment jdk.javadoc.doclet.DocletEnvironment}
* {@code SeeTag} {@link com.sun.source.doctree.LinkTree com.sun.source.doctree.LinkTree}
* {@link com.sun.source.doctree.SeeTree com.sun.source.doctree.SeeTree}
* {@code SerialFieldTag} {@link com.sun.source.doctree.SerialFieldTree com.sun.source.doctree.SerialFieldTree}
* {@code SourcePosition} {@link com.sun.source.util.SourcePositions com.sun.source.util.SourcePositions}
* {@code Tag} {@link com.sun.source.doctree.DocTree com.sun.source.doctree.DocTree}
* {@code ThrowsTag} {@link com.sun.source.doctree.ThrowsTree com.sun.source.doctree.ThrowsTree}
* {@code Type} {@link javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror javax.lang.model.type.TypeMirror}
* {@code TypeVariable} {@link javax.lang.model.type.TypeVariable javax.lang.model.type.TypeVariable}
* {@code WildcardType} {@link javax.lang.model.type.WildcardType javax.lang.model.type.WildcardType}
*
*
*
* @see jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet
* @see jdk.javadoc.doclet.DocletEnvironment
* @since 9
*/
package jdk.javadoc.doclet;