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/**
* The Doclet API provides an environment which, in conjunction with
* the Language Model API and Compiler Tree API, allows clients
* to inspect the source-level structures of programs and
* libraries, including API comments embedded in the source.
*
* <p>
* The {@link StandardDoclet standard doclet} can be used to
* generate HTML-formatted documentation. It supports user-defined
* {@link Taglet taglets}, which can be used to generate customized
* output for user-defined tags in documentation comments.
*
* <p style="font-style: italic">
* <b>Note:</b> The declarations in this package supersede those
* in the older package {@code com.sun.javadoc}. For details on the
* mapping of old types to new types, see the
* <a href="#migration">Migration Guide</a>.
* </p>
*
* <p>
* Doclets are invoked by javadoc and this API can be used to write out
* program information to files. For example, the standard doclet is
* invoked by default, to generate HTML documentation.
* <p>
* The invocation is defined by the interface {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet}
* -- the {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet#run(DocletEnvironment) run} interface
* method, defines the entry point.
* <pre>
* public boolean <b>run</b>(DocletEnvironment environment)
* </pre>
* The {@link jdk.javadoc.doclet.DocletEnvironment} instance holds the
* environment that the doclet will be initialized with. From this environment
* all other information can be extracted, in the form of
* {@link javax.lang.model.element.Element elements}. One can further use the APIs and utilities
* described by {@link javax.lang.model Language Model API} to query Elements and Types.
* <p>
*
* <a id="terminology"></a>
* <h3>Terminology</h3>
*
* <dl>
* <dt><a id="selected"></a>Selected</dt>
* <dd>An element is considered to be <em>selected</em>, if the
* <em>selection controls</em> <a href="#options">allow</a> it
* to be documented. (Note that synthetic elements are never
* selected.)
* </dd>
*
* <dt><a id="specified"></a>Specified</dt>
* <dd>The set of elements specified by the user are considered to be <em>specified
* elements</em>. Specified elements provide the starting points
* for determining the <em>included elements</em> to be documented.
* </dd>
*
* <dt><a id="included"></a>Included</dt>
* <dd>An element is considered to be <em>included</em>, if it is
* <em>specified</em> if it contains a <em>specified</em> element,
* or it is enclosed in a <em>specified</em> element, and is <em>selected</em>.
* Included elements will be documented.
* </dd>
*
* </dl>
* <p>
* <a id="options"></a>
* <h3>Options</h3>
* Javadoc <em>selection control</em> can be specified with these options
* as follows:
* <ul>
* <li>{@code --show-members:value} and {@code --show-types:value} can
* be used to filter the members, with the following values:
* <ul>
* <li> public -- considers only public elements
* <li> protected -- considers public and protected elements
* <li> package -- considers public, protected and package private elements
* <li> private -- considers all elements
* </ul>
*
* <li>{@code --show-packages:value} "exported" or "all" can be used
* to consider only exported packages or all packages within a module.
*
* <li>{@code --show-module-contents:value} can be used to specify the level at
* module declarations could be documented. A value of "api" indicates API
* level documentation, and "all" indicates detailed documentation.
* </ul>
* The following options can be used to specify the elements to be documented:
* <ul>
* <li>{@code --module} documents the specified modules.
*
* <li>{@code --expand-requires:value} expand the set of modules to be documented
* by including some or all of the modules dependencies. The value may be
* one of:
* <ul>
* <li> transitive -- each module specified explicitly on the command line is
* expanded to include the closure of its transitive dependencies
* <li> all -- each module specified explicitly on the command line
* is expanded to include the closure of its transitive dependencies,
* and also all of its direct dependencies
* </ul>
* By default, only the specified modules will be considered, without expansion
* of the module dependencies.
*
* <li>{@code packagenames} can be used to specify packages.
* <li>{@code -subpackages} can be used to recursively load packages.
* <li>{@code -exclude} can be used exclude package directories.
* <li>{@code sourcefilenames} can be used to specify source file names.
* </ul>
* <p>
* <a id="legacy-interactions"></a>
* <h4>Interactions with older options.</h4>
*
* The new {@code --show-*} options provide a more detailed replacement
* for the older options -public, -protected, -package, -private.
* Alternatively, the older options can continue to be used as shorter
* forms for combinations of the new options, as described below:
<table style="font-family: monospace" border=1>
<caption>Short form options mapping</caption>
<tr><th>Older option<th colspan="5">Equivalent to these values with the new option
<tr><th><th>{@code --show-members}<th>{@code --show-types}<th>{@code --show-packages}<th>{@code --show-module-contents}
<tr><td>{@code -public}<td>public<td>public<td>exported<td>api
<tr><td>{@code -protected}<td>protected<td>protected<td>exported<td>api
<tr><td>{@code -package}<td>package<td>package<td>all<td>all
<tr><td>{@code -private}<td>private<td>private<td>all<td>all
</table>
* <p>
* <a id="qualified"></a>
* A <em>qualified</em> element name is one that has its package
* name prepended to it, such as {@code java.lang.String}. A non-qualified
* name has no package name, such as {@code String}.
* <p>
*
* <a id="example"></a>
* <h3>Example</h3>
*
* The following is an example doclet that displays information of a class
* and its members, supporting an option.
* <pre>
* // note imports deleted for clarity
* public class Example implements Doclet {
* Reporter reporter;
* &#64;Override
* public void init(Locale locale, Reporter reporter) {
* reporter.print(Kind.NOTE, "Doclet using locale: " + locale);
* this.reporter = reporter;
* }
*
* public void printElement(DocTrees trees, Element e) {
* DocCommentTree docCommentTree = trees.getDocCommentTree(e);
* if (docCommentTree != null) {
* System.out.println("Element (" + e.getKind() + ": "
* + e + ") has the following comments:");
* System.out.println("Entire body: " + docCommentTree.getFullBody());
* System.out.println("Block tags: " + docCommentTree.getBlockTags());
* }
* }
*
* &#64;Override
* public boolean run(DocletEnvironment docEnv) {
* reporter.print(Kind.NOTE, "overviewfile: " + overviewfile);
* // get the DocTrees utility class to access document comments
* DocTrees docTrees = docEnv.getDocTrees();
*
* // location of an element in the same directory as overview.html
* try {
* Element e = ElementFilter.typesIn(docEnv.getSpecifiedElements()).iterator().next();
* DocCommentTree docCommentTree
* = docTrees.getDocCommentTree(e, overviewfile);
* if (docCommentTree != null) {
* System.out.println("Overview html: " + docCommentTree.getFullBody());
* }
* } catch (IOException missing) {
* reporter.print(Kind.ERROR, "No overview.html found.");
* }
*
* for (TypeElement t : ElementFilter.typesIn(docEnv.getIncludedElements())) {
* System.out.println(t.getKind() + ":" + t);
* for (Element e : t.getEnclosedElements()) {
* printElement(docTrees, e);
* }
* }
* return true;
* }
*
* &#64;Override
* public String getName() {
* return "Example";
* }
*
* private String overviewfile;
*
* &#64;Override
* public Set&lt;? extends Option&gt; getSupportedOptions() {
* Option[] options = {
* new Option() {
* private final List&lt;String&gt; someOption = Arrays.asList(
* "-overviewfile",
* "--overview-file",
* "-o"
* );
*
* &#64;Override
* public int getArgumentCount() {
* return 1;
* }
*
* &#64;Override
* public String getDescription() {
* return "an option with aliases";
* }
*
* &#64;Override
* public Option.Kind getKind() {
* return Option.Kind.STANDARD;
* }
*
* &#64;Override
* public List&lt;String&gt; getNames() {
* return someOption;
* }
*
* &#64;Override
* public String getParameters() {
* return "file";
* }
*
* &#64;Override
* public boolean process(String opt, List&lt;String&gt; arguments) {
* overviewfile = arguments.get(0);
* return true;
* }
* }
* };
* return new HashSet&lt;&gt;(Arrays.asList(options));
* }
*
* &#64;Override
* public SourceVersion getSupportedSourceVersion() {
* // support the latest release
* return SourceVersion.latest();
* }
* }
* </pre>
* <p>
* This doclet can be invoked with a command line, such as:
* <pre>
* javadoc -doclet Example &#92;
* -overviewfile overview.html &#92;
* -sourcepath source-location &#92;
* source-location/Example.java
* </pre>
*
* <h3><a id="migration">Migration Guide</a></h3>
*
* <p>Many of the types in the old {@code com.sun.javadoc} API do not have equivalents in this
* package. Instead, types in the {@code javax.lang.model} and {@code com.sun.source} APIs
* are used instead.
*
* <p>The following table gives a guide to the mapping from old types to their replacements.
* In some cases, there is no direct equivalent.
*
* <table style="font-family: monospace" border=1>
<caption>Guide for mapping old types to new types</caption>
<tr><th>Old Type<th>New Type
<tr><td>AnnotatedType<td>javax.lang.model.type.Type
<tr><td>AnnotationDesc<td>javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationMirror
<tr><td>AnnotationDesc.ElementValuePair<td>javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationValue
<tr><td>AnnotationTypeDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement
<tr><td>AnnotationTypeElementDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement
<tr><td>AnnotationValue<td>javax.lang.model.element.AnnotationValue
<tr><td>ClassDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.TypeElement
<tr><td>ConstructorDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement
<tr><td>Doc<td>javax.lang.model.element.Element
<tr><td>DocErrorReporter<td>jdk.javadoc.doclet.Reporter
<tr><td>Doclet<td>jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet
<tr><td>ExecutableMemberDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement
<tr><td>FieldDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.VariableElement
<tr><td>LanguageVersion<td>javax.lang.model.SourceVersion
<tr><td>MemberDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.Element
<tr><td>MethodDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.ExecutableElement
<tr><td>PackageDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.PackageElement
<tr><td>Parameter<td>javax.lang.model.element.VariableElement
<tr><td>ParameterizedType<td>javax.lang.model.type.DeclaredType
<tr><td>ParamTag<td>com.sun.source.doctree.ParamTree
<tr><td>ProgramElementDoc<td>javax.lang.model.element.Element
<tr><td>RootDoc<td>jdk.javadoc.doclet.DocletEnvironment
<tr><td>SeeTag<td>com.sun.source.doctree.LinkTree<br>com.sun.source.doctree.SeeTree
<tr><td>SerialFieldTag<td>com.sun.source.doctree.SerialFieldTree
<tr><td>SourcePosition<td>com.sun.source.util.SourcePositions
<tr><td>Tag<td>com.sun.source.doctree.DocTree
<tr><td>ThrowsTag<td>com.sun.source.doctree.ThrowsTree
<tr><td>Type<td>javax.lang.model.type.Type
<tr><td>TypeVariable<td>javax.lang.model.type.TypeVariable
<tr><td>WildcardType<td>javax.lang.model.type.WildcardType
* </table>
*
* @see jdk.javadoc.doclet.Doclet
* @see jdk.javadoc.doclet.DocletEnvironment
* @since 9
*/
package jdk.javadoc.doclet;