> Please review this long-awaited change to documentation inheritance. > > This change improves "methods comment algorithm" and introduces directed > documentation inheritance. While "methods comment algorithm" -- automatic > search for inheritable documentation -- has been improved, it still cannot > read an author's mind so as to always find the documentation they intended. > From now on, an author can state their intention, by providing an FQN of the > superclass or superinterface from which to inherit documentation: > > {@inheritDoc S} > > Which is exactly what I did to counterbalance some of the JDK API > Documentation changes caused by the change to "methods comment algorithm".
Pavel Rappo has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The incremental webrev excludes the unrelated changes brought in by the merge/rebase. The pull request contains 14 additional commits since the last revision: - fix failing SourceDocTreeScannerTest - Merge branch 'master' into 8285368 - feedback: use JavadocTester.out Also, trivially fixes grammar (word order) in a comment. - feedback: remove unduly restrictive warning - suggestion: vocabulary - feedback: DocLint terminology - feedback: use utils directly - Merge branch 'master' into 8285368 - feedback: make warning less scary - Disable problematic check This check is well-intended but problematic for JDK API Documentation build, which errors on warnings. - ... and 4 more: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/compare/e7a50303...563a8761 ------------- Changes: - all: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14357/files - new: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14357/files/cccffa66..563a8761 Webrevs: - full: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=14357&range=08 - incr: https://webrevs.openjdk.org/?repo=jdk&pr=14357&range=07-08 Stats: 11904 lines in 355 files changed: 9502 ins; 1007 del; 1395 mod Patch: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14357.diff Fetch: git fetch https://git.openjdk.org/jdk.git pull/14357/head:pull/14357 PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/14357