link to identifiers in sdk on api.dartlang.org from third-party package

[maiermic]

Support links to identifiers (for example List) of the sdk. Links sould be added to types in (class-, method-, ...) signatures and in doc comments (markup links).

[chalin]

Any update on this? Could it be triaged and marked with a priority level, say, P1 :)

[kwalrath]

@devoncarew do we still have someone working on dartdoc?

[devoncarew]

@keertip is working on it, but it's not her main task; contributions are welcome here.

[chalin]

@devoncarew - Thanks for the update. Could we at least assign a priority level to this issue?
And maybe tag it as help wanted too?

[jcollins-g]

Is this a request for external linkage to api.dartlang.org, or a request for auto-include-dependencies to do this?

[kwalrath]

The former, I think.

I believe it's a request for externally generated API doc that uses SDK classes to link to the SDK doc, by default. E.g. if an external package (say, args) has a property that's a Map (say, commands), most people would want to be able to click Map and get to https://api.dartlang.org/stable/dart-core/Map-class.html.

Options might be to (1) not generate those links or (2) link to a particular version of the SDK API docs. These links should probably have different default formatting from links inside the same package.

[jcollins-g]

OK. #1368 addressed the latter, the former is definitely on my radar though. Going to adjust the title of the issue to be more clear.

[jcollins-g]

#1524 should make this much easier. Dartdoc now has some elementary package-boundary awareness that we can use to determine whether alternate hyperlinks should be generated, so it's now just a matter of implementing the generation.