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I need to know how to read Javadoc comments at run-time (probably by reflection?) Say I have the following function: /** * function that do some thing */ public void myFunc() { //... } At runtime, I can get much information about this function by reflection.. But cannot read the comments. So the question is, How to read this javadoc comments at runtime. Consider to use annotations instead of Javadoc and write an annotation processor. Khayredinov Dmitriy Doclet class: public class ExtractCommentsDoclet { public static boolean start(RootDoc root) throws IOException { for (ClassDoc c : root

Is there any tool / Eclipse plugin that can remove all JavaDoc comments in a file? The normal (non-JavaDoc) comments should be intact after running the tool. Try this regex to search replace either in eclipse / sed / your favorite editor that has regex support. /\*\*(?s:(?!\*/).)*\*/ ?s treat input as single line a starting string \** zero or more negative lookahead for */ space or non space char a trailing string */ Edit To tackle cases where strings containing javadoc, use this regex ((?<!\\)"([^"]|(?<=\\)")*")|(/\*\*(?s:(?!\*/).)*\*/) and replace it with first capture group /1 Then if you

I'm using ant to generate javadocs, but get this exception over and over - why? I'm using JDK version 1.6.0_06 . [javadoc] java.lang.ClassCastException: com.sun.tools.javadoc.ClassDocImpl cannot be cast to com.sun.javadoc.AnnotationTypeDoc [javadoc] at com.sun.tools.javadoc.AnnotationDescImpl.annotationType(AnnotationDescImpl.java:46) [javadoc] at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDocletWriter.getAnnotations(HtmlDocletWriter.java:1739) [javadoc] at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats.html.HtmlDocletWriter.writeAnnotationInfo(HtmlDocletWriter.java:1713) [javadoc] at com.sun.tools.doclets.formats

When do I use @see when dealing with JavaDocs? What is its usage? For example if MethodA calls MethodB then do I have to put @see in MethodB 's javadoc and reference MethodA because that is what called it, or do I have to put a reference to MethodB from MethodA because it's calling it. I've read the stuff about @see on the Oracle website and it seems to me to be incredibly vague, it says it means "see also" but not really what that means! Yeah, it is quite vague. You should use it whenever for readers of the documentation of your method it may be useful to also look at some other method. If

I'm trying to prepare and upload my Android library to Bintray and part of that process runs the following javadoc task: task javadoc(type: Javadoc) { source = android.sourceSets.main.java.srcDirs classpath += project.files(android.getBootClasspath().join(File.pathSeparator)) } This task is part of a larger gradle script here: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/attwellBrian/JCenter/master/bintrayv1.gradle When the javadoc task runs, the following problems occur: Every @NonNull and @Nullable annotation in the project reports an error of "error: cannot find symbol" Every Javadoc reference I've

I have a large codebase without Javadoc, and I want to run a program to write a skeleton with the basic Javadoc information (e.g., for each method's parameter write @param...), so I just have to fill the gaps left. Anyone know a good solution for this? Edit: JAutodoc is what I was looking for. It has Ant tasks, an Eclipse plugin, and uses Velocity for the template definition. Laurent K The JAutodoc plugin for eclipse does exactly what you need, but with a package granularity : right click on a package, select "Add javadoc for members..." and the skeleton will be added. There are numerous

I've been looking through the javadoc documentation on Sun's site, trying to find if there's a javadoc tag which can be used to document a class or method's generic type signature. Something like @typeparam , similar to the usual @param , but applicable to types as well as methods,e.g. /** * @typeparam T This describes my type parameter */ class MyClass<T> { } I suspect there is no such tag - I can find no mention of it anywhere, and the JavaSE API docs don't show any sign of it, but it seems like an odd omission. Can someone put me right? It should be done just like this: /** * @param <T>

Can anybody show me how to generate Javadoc from command line? My project contains the package com.test and I want to put the generated documentation in files located in a specific folder like this: C:/javadoc/test . Arun P Johny You can refer the javadoc 8 documentation I think what you are looking at is something like this: javadoc -d C:\javadoc\test com.test infogizmo Oracle provides some simple examples: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javadoc.html#CHDJBGFC Assuming you are in ~/ and the java source tree is in ./saxon_source/net and you want to recurse through

I know that it isn't the most vital of issues, but I just realised that I can put the javadoc comment block before or after the annotation. What would we want to adopt as a coding standard? /** * This is a javadoc comment before the annotation */ @Component public class MyClass { @Autowired /** * This is a javadoc comment after the annotation */ private MyOtherClass other; } Peter Jaric Before the annotation, since the annotation is code that "belongs" to the class. See examples with javadoc in the official documentation. Here's random example I found in another official Java page : /** *