That's pretty cool to see the syntax highlighted in those snippets!

On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 3:22 PM Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:

> There is an example here:
>
> https://docs.groovy-lang.org/docs/next/html/gapi/groovy/sql/Sql.html
>
> It shows numerous groovy snippets and a SQL DDL example also highlighted
> as SQL.
>
> You can also build from master using the normal groovydoc or groovydocAll
> tasks (they are wired up to the Ant-based plugin).
>
> You can also get the docs or sdk zip from the artifacts of any recent dist
> build, e.g. apache-groovy-docs-SNAPSHOT under:
> https://github.com/apache/groovy/actions/runs/24721124182
>
> Cheers, Paul.
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 10:44 PM Guillaume Laforge <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> Is there some new generated groovydoc online somewhere with those changes?
>>
>> Guillaume
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2026 at 2:41 PM Paul King <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi folks,
>>>
>>> The groovydoc tool hasn't had many updates in a while, so I thought I'd
>>> try to change that. There is now a new version featuring:
>>>
>>> * snippets (mimicking JEP 413) and markdown doc-comment rendering
>>> (mimicking JEP 467)
>>> * customisable syntax highlighting with some dark/light mode support
>>> *  new commandline/Ant config options: showInternal, noIndex,
>>> noDeprecatedList, noHelp, syntaxHighlighter, theme, addStylesheet,
>>> additionalStylesheets, preLanguage
>>> * new tags supported: @snippet, @highlight, @replace, @link (changed),
>>> @start, @end, @apiNote, @implSpec, @implNote, @value, @param (changed),
>>> @inheritDoc
>>>
>>> A nice thing about the snippet and markdown support is that it works for
>>> JDK17+ for Java and Groovy files, instead of JDK18 (snippets) and JDK23
>>> (markdown) when using javadoc.
>>>
>>> I merged the PR with only a short time for review because of the next
>>> topic (Gradle support) meaning that most folks wouldn't have been able to
>>> test it anyway. So commit then review seemed the only realistic option. I
>>> can easily back out any bits that folks aren't happy with.
>>>
>>> Gotchas using Gradle's Groovydoc task
>>>
>>> The `org.gradle.api.tasks.javadoc.Groovydoc` task type shipped with
>>> Gradle
>>> predates all the improvements above, so the following settings are NOT
>>> available via
>>> the built-in task's DSL:
>>>
>>>  - javaVersion
>>>  - showInternal
>>>  - noIndex, noDeprecatedList, noHelp
>>>  - syntaxHighlighter
>>>  - theme
>>>  - addStylesheet / additionalStylesheets
>>>  - preLanguage
>>>
>>> Setting any of those on a Gradle `Groovydoc` task has no effect. Gradle
>>> does use Groovy's Ant task under the hood, but only passes through the
>>> older property set.
>>>
>>> For our own Groovydoc needs, we have borrowed a copy of the Groovydoc
>>> task from Grails, which gives us access to all the new features. At some
>>> point we need to speak with them about maybe releasing this as an official
>>> Gradle plugin.
>>>
>>> Let me know if you have any problems or suggestions for improvement.
>>>
>>> Cheers, Paul.
>>>
>>>
>>
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