Bug 76629 - Javadoc location should support variables. [javadoc]
Summary: Javadoc location should support variables. [javadoc]
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 67020
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.0.1   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: JDT-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2004-10-20 02:04 EDT by P Duffy CLA
Modified: 2006-04-25 14:32 EDT (History)
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Description P Duffy CLA 2004-10-20 02:04:53 EDT 
2. Project properties / Javadoc Location

Couple of issues with this setting.
I am unable to set this to:

${project_loc}/local/javadoc/API_provisioning/

because the properties setting requires the directory to be present and
contain the files package-list and index.html.
The directory and files are not present because our Javadoc is a part of the
build and is therefore under our output directory tree "local".
This property needs to have an "Allow output folders for Javadoc location"
option.
Comment 1 Frederic Fusier CLA 2004-10-20 04:33:14 EDT 
Move to JDT/UI
Comment 2 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2004-10-20 05:30:54 EDT 
Martin, can you please comment.
Comment 3 Martin Aeschlimann CLA 2004-10-20 05:55:16 EDT 
So far Javadoc location does not support any variables.
Comment 4 P Duffy CLA 2004-10-20 10:02:05 EDT 
If Javadoc location does not support variables as you say, then the Javadoc 
facilities of Eclipse are useless to my large team (projects are checked out to 
various folders, etc.)
Comment 5 Dirk Baeumer CLA 2004-10-21 05:55:08 EDT 
Changing title to "Javadoc location should support variables".

An alternative is to use Ant to build the Javadoc. Ant does support variables 
which can be bound to predefined Eclipse variables. See the "environment tab" 
of the run configuration for ant files.

Supporting variable in Javadoc export wizard is time permitted.
Comment 6 P Duffy CLA 2004-10-21 07:47:42 EDT 
Thank you for the suggestion, but we already have an ANT target to build the 
JavaDoc.  The point is that we are encouraging developers to operate within  
Eclipse, thus the need to support variables in the Javadoc location (which is 
fully supported in the launchers, external tools, etc...Javadoc gen is now 
inconsistent and effectively unusable for team development).

Cheers,
Comment 7 Olivier Thomann CLA 2006-04-25 14:32:42 EDT 
Reopen to close as dup of bug 67020.
Comment 8 Olivier Thomann CLA 2006-04-25 14:32:49 EDT 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 67020 ***