Bug 266309

Summary:	[hovering] Javadoc hovers should mark copied parts from overridden methods
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	JDT-Text-Inbox <jdt-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert
Version:	3.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Markus Keller

2009-02-26 09:40:00 EST

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Javadoc hovers should somehow mark copied parts from overridden methods (inherited tags of main description).

The Javadoc tool already writes "Description copied from ..." in some cases (only when the whole description is copied), e.g. in 
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/AbstractMap.html#entrySet()

In other cases, it doesn't mention the copying (e.g. when {@inheritDoc} is used or when tags like @return are copied):
http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/util/AbstractMap.html#keySet()

We should mark all copied parts in Javadoc hovers, e.g. with a slightly darker background color and a tooltip that says where it is copied from.

Comment 1 Dani Megert

2009-02-26 09:52:57 EST

Would be a nice feature.