Hi all,
I am using Apache Ant to generate Javadoc for my program which has many projects(or modules). However, I just want to generate Javadoc for Interfaces ONLY and I do not know how to check if a file is a class or interface in Ant. Someone suggested me that I should use and specify a list of files to exclude or include. However, there are hundreds of files in my program and specifying a list of class files to exclude is impossible.
Does anyone have some ideas, please?
I don't believe this is possible unless you write your own custom ant-task, (which wouldn't be that hard actually) and reference that in your Ant-script.
Another, (much uglier) way would be to generate the complete java-doc and remove non-interface files. These could for instance be identified by looking at the allclasses-frame.html:
<A HREF="javax/swing/text/ComponentView.html" title="class in javax.swing.text" target="classFrame">ComponentView</A>
<A HREF="java/awt/Composite.html" title="interface in java.awt" target="classFrame"><I>Composite</I></A>
where you have both the type (in the title=...) and file (href=...) available.
Have you considered writing your own doclet? Instead of trying to get ant to do the work, create a doclet that knows how to discard every non-interface. Then, using the javadoc task in ant is simple.
Hope that helps.