JDK-4171906 : stddoclet: Automatically generate a keyword search file for a search applet
  • Type: Enhancement
  • Component: tools
  • Sub-Component: javadoc(tool)
  • Affected Version: 1.2.0
  • Priority: P5
  • Status: Closed
  • Resolution: Duplicate
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 1998-09-08
  • Updated: 2024-10-09
  • Resolved: 2013-12-12
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Description
Name: clC74495			Date: 09/08/98

It would be nice if javadoc could output a text
file of words to search on, with a link to where 
this particular occurence of that word is located. 
Here, you would have things like all the function 
names, member names, class names, package names, 
and also all of these names split up (so 
'fillRect()' would produce 'fillRect', 'fill' and 
'rect'). Also, you could add a '@keyword' tag, and 
allow the developer to add keywords for the search. 
This would certainly be invaluable for building 
search engines to search through masses of API 
docs (the Java 1.2 API is so enormous, that you 
really have to know what you're doing to find 
exactly what you want!).
Then, if you're bored one day, you could write a 
little search applet that plugs into the 
documentation pages, and that reads the file 
format output by javadoc for the search :)
(Review ID: 37547)
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Comments
This bug is a duplicate of 4269446.
12-12-2013

EVALUATION Note that with the advent of doclets (JDK1.2) it would be fairly striaght forward to add this capability. Text searches through the full index will also give you much of this information. robert.field@Eng 1998-09-08
08-09-1998