Description Etienne Lacombe 2009-06-13 18:48:22 EDT

Build ID: 3.5 - I20090528-2000

Steps To Reproduce:
It would be great to have an additional variable in the comments (Javadoc) templates for the Javadoc of the referenced variable.

This is for getters and setters. 

For example, I create a class attribute:

/** 
 * The first name of the person.
 */
private String firstName;


I would like that the getter's comment be set to (automatically):

/**
 * The first name of the person.
 */
public String getFirstName ()
{
   return firstName;
}

and the setter similarly.

Ideally, it would do:

/**
 * Returns the first name.
 */

but I would be way happy with the first example.

When I was using Emacs, I had macros that would take the attributes and automatically create the getters and setters, using this scheme of comments.

This removes a lot of redundant typing.

Some may argue that I don't need to put comments on the private attribute - fine but I like to and that's my preference.

I don't know how much work is involved in adding such a variable in the templates.


Maybe if someone would point me out a way I could do it for me I would be happy with that to.