failing to process source folders starting with underscore

[vronk]

I experienced a weird(?) problem:
When any folder in the source path starts with an underscore (_), jsdoc runs without any complaints, but produces completely empty output.
removing the underscore from the name of the folder resolves the problem.

This is on a win-7 machine with jdk 1.6.0_37

[hegemonic]

This behavior is intentional. The default configuration file is set up to exclude files and folder names that begin with an underscore.

To change the default behavior:

1. Copy conf.json.EXAMPLE to a new file, conf.json. You can put it in the JSDoc directory or another directory. If you put it in another directory, you will need to use the -c option to tell JSDoc where to find it: jsdoc -c path/to/conf.json
2. Open conf.json in a text editor.
3. Find the source.excludePattern property, and change it to an empty string.

We could definitely use better docs for this, so I made a note on a related issue in the documentation project: jsdoc/jsdoc.github.io#4

Hope that helps!

[vronk]

oh, I see.
Thanks for the explanation.

[bobbwhy]

OK ... So I changed the conf.json and use -c to point to it.
I removed the underscore from source.excludePattern... and tried. It would not process the file.
I changed source.excludePattern to empty string. It would not process the file.
I put a bad character in the conf.json to verify that jsdoc was using the conf.json file i created. It threw a json error so it is the correct conf.json .. any ideas?

It still will not process that file

[bobbwhy]

and just like that... somehow it now works..