A doclet to output javadoc as XML

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This library provides a doclet to output the javadoc comments from Java source code to a XML or a Restructured Text (*.rst) document.

All modern JDKs 11, 17 and 21 are supported via languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(11) enforcing JavaDoc 11.

Planned support for Markdown (.md), Docbook XML and ASCII Doctor (.adoc). Sponsors or Contributors are most welcome.

The source code has been salvaged from https://github.com/MarkusBernhardt/xml-doclet, which has been derived from the xml-doclet library by Seth Call.

Example

See the JSQLParser Java API

Gradle

repositories {
    // Sonatype OSSRH
    maven {
        url = uri('https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/')
    }
}
configurations {
    xmlDoclet
}

java {
    // needed for XML-Doclet to work (since Doclet changed again with Java 13)
    toolchain {
        languageVersion.set(JavaLanguageVersion.of(11))
    }
}

dependencies {
    xmlDoclet 'com.manticore-projects.tools:xml-doclet:+'
}

tasks.register('xmldoc', Javadoc) {
    source = sourceSets.main.allJava
    // beware, that this folder will be overwritten hard by Gradle
    destinationDir = reporting.file("xmlDoclet")
    options.docletpath = configurations.xmlDoclet.files.asType(List)
    options.doclet = "com.github.markusbernhardt.xmldoclet.XmlDoclet"

    // transform to Restructured Text and copy to Sphinx Source folder
    options.addBooleanOption("rst", true)
    options.addStringOption("basePackage", "net.sf.jsqlparser")

    doLast {
        copy {
            from reporting.file("xmlDoclet/javadoc.rst")
            into "${projectDir}/src/site/sphinx/"
        }
    }
}

Maven

If you are using maven you can use this library by adding the following report to your pom.xml:

<repositories>
    <repository>
        <id>jsqlparser-snapshots</id>
        <snapshots>
            <enabled>true</enabled>
        </snapshots>
        <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/groups/public/</url>
    </repository>
</repositories>
<plugin>
    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
    <executions>
        <execution>
            <id>xml-doclet</id>
        <phase>prepare-package</phase>
            <goals>
                <goal>javadoc</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
                <doclet>com.github.markusbernhardt.xmldoclet.XmlDoclet</doclet>
                <additionalparam>-d ${project.build.directory} -filename ${project.artifactId}-${project.version}-javadoc.xml</additionalparam>
                <useStandardDocletOptions>false</useStandardDocletOptions>
                <docletArtifact>
                    <groupId>com.manticore-projects.tools</groupId>
                    <artifactId>xml-doclet</artifactId>
                    <version>1.2.1</version>
                </docletArtifact>
            </configuration>
        </execution>
    </executions>
</plugin>

Options

-d <directory>            Destination directory for output file.
                          Default: .

-docencoding <encoding>   Encoding of the output file.
                          Default: UTF8

-dryrun                   Parse javadoc, but don't write output file.
                          Default: false

-filename <filename>      Name of the output file.
                          Default: javadoc.xml

-rst                      Write Restructured Text (*.rst) that can be used with Sphinx
                          Default: false

-md                       Not implemented yet: Write Markdown (*.md)
                          Default: false

-docbook                  Not implemented yet: Write DocBoook XML (*.db.xml)
                          Default: false

-adoc                     Not implemented yet: Write Ascii Doctor (*.adoc)
                          Default: false

-basePackage <name>       Shortens the Qualified Names by the Base Package name