Javadoc API: How far are varargs supported?
java, javadoc, variadic-functions
Solution
Found it, its an attribute of the MethodDoc super class:
public interface ExecutableMemberDoc {
public boolean isVarArgs();
// Return true if this method was declared to
// take a variable number of arguments.
}
To make it work you have to put the following static (sic!) method and return value into your doclet class:
public static LanguageVersion languageVersion() {
return LanguageVersion.JAVA_1_5;
}
Oki Doki. Case closed.
Problem
I want to write my custom doclet. I don't want to read some existing javadoc that is made with the standard doclet. I am having problems to figure out how I can query the Javadoc API whether a formal parameter is a varargs paramter. For example if I have the following method: ``` public static void main(String... args) { } ``` How can I determine that the formal parameter args is varargs? I have looked into com.sun.javadoc.Type. But was not able to figure out how to access the information. Bye P.S.: Reflection doesn't help, since reflection is not available inside a doclet I guess. In a doclet you have for example the MethodDoc reflected class, whereas in reflection you have the Method class.