How do I get IntelliJ to give me a warning if I have failed to provide JavaDoc description/annotation for public fields and methods?

For older versions of IntelliJ: Preferences > Inspections > JavaDoc issues > Declaration has JavaDoc problems For newer versions of IntelliJ: File > Settings… > Editor > Inspections > Java > JavaDoc issues > Declaration has JavaDoc problems Make sure to move “scope” slider to desired level of visibility for packages, classes, methods, fields and … Read more

How do you read JavaDoc? [closed]

JavaDoc jar can be unzipped directly. In theory any released javadocs can be downloaded and viewed offline. download directly from maven repository. For example: http://central.maven.org/maven2/com/googlecode/objectify/objectify/5.0.3/objectify-5.0.3-javadoc.jar Now you get objectify-5.0.3-javadoc.jar, rename the file to objectify-5.0.3-javadoc.zip use your favourite unzip tool to extract it, now you have a folder objectify-5.0.3-javadoc double click index.html will open the index … Read more

How do I inherit KDoc documentation?

Dokka always copies the documentation from a base member to an inherited one if the inherited member does not have its own documentation. There is no way to combine the base member documentation with additional text provided in the inherited member. (Dokka doesn’t support the @inheritdoc Javadoc tag because this inevitably leads to the proliferation … Read more

vs elements when writing Java docs

For inline code in Javadocs,you should use {@code your-code-here} See javadoc – {@code text} for more details. Equivalent to <code>{@literal text}</code>. Displays text in code font without interpreting the text as HTML markup or nested javadoc tags. ..

Javadoc template generator [closed]

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 interesting options : templates for javadoc, adding a TODO in the header of every file saying : “template javadoc, must … Read more

How to read Javadoc comments by reflection?

Doclet class: public class ExtractCommentsDoclet { public static boolean start(RootDoc root) throws IOException { for (ClassDoc c : root.classes()) { print(c.qualifiedName(), c.commentText()); for (FieldDoc f : c.fields(false)) { print(f.qualifiedName(), f.commentText()); } for (MethodDoc m : c.methods(false)) { print(m.qualifiedName(), m.commentText()); if (m.commentText() != null && m.commentText().length() > 0) { for (ParamTag p : m.paramTags()) print(m.qualifiedName() + … Read more