Thanks for reporting this issue. We should be able to build on java 8. Will correct the javadocs.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 9:26 AM, Shannon Lloyd <shanl...@gmail.com> wrote: > Is Java 8 supported for building Kafka? Or do you only support Java 7? I > just noticed that the latest code on the 0.8.2 branch fails on the javadoc > in the new MetricName class due to Java 8's javadoc tool being much > stricter when checking comments (especially around things like HTML tags). > > For example: > > kafka/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/MetricName.java:22: > error: self-closing element not allowed > * <p/> > ^ > kafka/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/MetricName.java:39: > error: malformed HTML > * Map<String, String> metricTags = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>(); > ^ > kafka/clients/src/main/java/org/apache/kafka/common/MetricName.java:39: > error: bad use of '>' > * Map<String, String> metricTags = new LinkedHashMap<String, String>(); > > I realise that you can avoid these errors via -Xdoclint, but it seems like > it would be preferable to fix up the javadoc instead. > > Cheers, > Shannon >
