scala.tools.nsc.ast

# DocComments

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Related Doc: package ast

#### trait DocComments extends AnyRef

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  Global
Source
  DocComments.scala

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### Type Members

1. #### case class DocComment(raw: String, pos: Global.Position = NoPosition, codePos: Global.Position = NoPosition) extends Product with Serializable

2. #### class ExpansionLimitExceeded extends Exception

3. #### case class UseCase(comment: Global.DocComment, body: String, pos: Global.Position) extends Product with Serializable

### Value Members

1. #### final def !=(arg0: Any): Boolean

   Test two objects for inequality.

   Test two objects for inequality.

   returns

     `true` if !(this == that), false otherwise.

   Definition Classes
     AnyRef → Any

2. #### final def ##(): Int

   Equivalent to `x.hashCode` except for boxed numeric types and `null`.

   Equivalent to `x.hashCode` except for boxed numeric types and `null`. For numerics, it returns a hash value which is consistent with value equality: if two value type instances compare as true, then ## will produce the same hash value for each of them. For `null` returns a hashcode where `null.hashCode` throws a `NullPointerException`.

   returns

     a hash value consistent with ==

   Definition Classes
     AnyRef → Any

3. #### def +(other: String): String

   Implicit information
     This member is added by an implicit conversion from DocComments to any2stringadd[DocComments] performed by method any2stringadd in scala.Predef.
   Definition Classes
     any2stringadd

4. #### def ->[B](y: B): (DocComments, B)

   Implicit information
     This member is added by an implicit conversion from DocComments to ArrowAssoc[DocComments] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
   Definition Classes
     ArrowAssoc
   Annotations
     @inline()

5. #### final def ==(arg0: Any): Boolean

   The expression `x == that` is equivalent to `if (x eq null) that eq null else x.equals(that)`.

   The expression `x == that` is equivalent to `if (x eq null) that eq null else x.equals(that)`.

   arg0

     the object to compare against this object for equality.

   returns

     `true` if the receiver object is equivalent to the argument; `false` otherwise.

   Definition Classes
     AnyRef → Any

6. #### final def asInstanceOf[T0]: T0

   Cast the receiver object to be of type `T0`.

   Cast the receiver object to be of type `T0`.

   Note that the success of a cast at runtime is modulo Scala's erasure semantics. Therefore the expression `1.asInstanceOf[String]` will throw a `ClassCastException` at runtime, while the expression `List(1).asInstanceOf[List[String]]` will not. In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the requested type.

   returns

     the receiver object.

   Definition Classes
     Any
   Exceptions thrown

     `ClassCastException` if the receiver object is not an instance of the erasure of type `T0`.

7. #### def clearDocComments(): Unit

8. #### def clone(): AnyRef

   Create a copy of the receiver object.

   Create a copy of the receiver object.

   The default implementation of the `clone` method is platform dependent.

   returns

     a copy of the receiver object.

   Attributes
     protected[java.lang]
   Definition Classes
     AnyRef
   Annotations
     @throws( ... )
   Note

     not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

9. #### def cookedDocComment(sym: Global.Symbol, docStr: String = ""): String

   The raw doc comment of symbol `sym`, minus usecase and define sections, augmented by missing sections of an inherited doc comment.

   The raw doc comment of symbol `sym`, minus usecase and define sections, augmented by missing sections of an inherited doc comment. If a symbol does not have a doc comment but some overridden version of it does, the doc comment of the overridden version is copied instead.

10. #### val cookedDocComments: HashMap[Global.Symbol, String]

11. #### def docCommentPos(sym: Global.Symbol): Global.Position

    The position of the raw doc comment of symbol `sym`, or NoPosition if missing If a symbol does not have a doc comment but some overridden version of it does, the position of the doc comment of the overridden version is returned instead.

12. #### val docComments: WeakHashMap[Global.Symbol, Global.DocComment]

    The raw doc comment map

    The raw doc comment map

    In IDE, background compilation runs get interrupted by reloading new sourcefiles. This is weak to avoid memleaks due to the doc of their cached symbols (e.g. in baseTypeSeq) between periodic doc reloads.

13. #### def ensuring(cond: (DocComments) ⇒ Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): DocComments

    Implicit information
      This member is added by an implicit conversion from DocComments to Ensuring[DocComments] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
      Ensuring

14. #### def ensuring(cond: (DocComments) ⇒ Boolean): DocComments

    Implicit information
      This member is added by an implicit conversion from DocComments to Ensuring[DocComments] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
      Ensuring

15. #### def ensuring(cond: Boolean, msg: ⇒ Any): DocComments

    Implicit information
      This member is added by an implicit conversion from DocComments to Ensuring[DocComments] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
      Ensuring

16. #### def ensuring(cond: Boolean): DocComments

    Implicit information
      This member is added by an implicit conversion from DocComments to Ensuring[DocComments] performed by method Ensuring in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
      Ensuring

17. #### final def eq(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean

    Tests whether the argument (`arg0`) is a reference to the receiver object (`this`).

    Tests whether the argument (`arg0`) is a reference to the receiver object (`this`).

    The `eq` method implements an equivalence relation on non-null instances of `AnyRef`, and has three additional properties:

    - It is consistent: for any non-null instances `x` and `y` of type `AnyRef`, multiple invocations of `x.eq(y)` consistently returns `true` or consistently returns `false`.
    - For any non-null instance `x` of type `AnyRef`, `x.eq(null)` and `null.eq(x)` returns `false`.
    - `null.eq(null)` returns `true`.

    When overriding the `equals` or `hashCode` methods, it is important to ensure that their behavior is consistent with reference equality. Therefore, if two objects are references to each other (`o1 eq o2`), they should be equal to each other (`o1 == o2`) and they should hash to the same value (`o1.hashCode == o2.hashCode`).

    returns

      `true` if the argument is a reference to the receiver object; `false` otherwise.

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef

18. #### def equals(arg0: Any): Boolean

    The equality method for reference types.

    The equality method for reference types. Default implementation delegates to `eq`.

    See also `equals` in scala.Any.

    returns

      `true` if the receiver object is equivalent to the argument; `false` otherwise.

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef → Any

19. #### def expandInheritdoc(parent: String, child: String, sym: Global.Symbol): String

    Expand inheritdoc tags

    Expand inheritdoc tags

    - for the main comment we transform the inheritdoc into the super variable, and the variable expansion can expand it further
    - for the param, tparam and throws sections we must replace comments on the spot

    This is done separately, for two reasons: 1. It takes longer to run compared to merge 2. The inheritdoc annotation should not be used very often, as building the comment from pieces severely impacts performance

    parent

      The source (or parent) comment

    child

      The child (overriding member or usecase) comment

    sym

      The child symbol

    returns

      The child comment with the inheritdoc sections expanded

20. #### def expandVariables(initialStr: String, sym: Global.Symbol, site: Global.Symbol): String

    Expand variable occurrences in string `str`, until a fix point is reached or an expandLimit is exceeded.

    Expand variable occurrences in string `str`, until a fix point is reached or an expandLimit is exceeded.

    initialStr

      The string to be expanded

    sym

      The symbol for which doc comments are generated

    site

      The class for which doc comments are generated

    returns

      Expanded string

    Attributes
      protected

21. #### def expandWiki(str: String): String

    Returns just the wiki expansion (this would correspond to a comment in the input format of the JavaDoc tool, modulo differences in tags.)

22. #### def expandedDocComment(sym: Global.Symbol, site: Global.Symbol, docStr: String = ""): String

    The cooked doc comment of symbol `sym` after variable expansion, or "" if missing.

    The cooked doc comment of symbol `sym` after variable expansion, or "" if missing.

    sym

      The symbol for which doc comment is returned

    site

      The class for which doc comments are generated

    Exceptions thrown

      `ExpansionLimitExceeded` when more than 10 successive expansions of the same string are done, which is interpreted as a recursive variable definition.

23. #### def fillDocComment(sym: Global.Symbol, comment: Global.DocComment): Unit

24. #### def finalize(): Unit

    Called by the garbage collector on the receiver object when there are no more references to the object.

    Called by the garbage collector on the receiver object when there are no more references to the object.

    The details of when and if the `finalize` method is invoked, as well as the interaction between `finalize` and non-local returns and exceptions, are all platform dependent.

    Attributes
      protected[java.lang]
    Definition Classes
      AnyRef
    Annotations
      @throws( classOf[java.lang.Throwable] )
    Note

      not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

25. #### def formatted(fmtstr: String): String

    Implicit information
      This member is added by an implicit conversion from DocComments to StringFormat[DocComments] performed by method StringFormat in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
      StringFormat
    Annotations
      @inline()

26. #### final def getClass(): Class[_]

    A representation that corresponds to the dynamic class of the receiver object.

    A representation that corresponds to the dynamic class of the receiver object.

    The nature of the representation is platform dependent.

    returns

      a representation that corresponds to the dynamic class of the receiver object.

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef → Any
    Note

      not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

27. #### def hashCode(): Int

    The hashCode method for reference types.

    The hashCode method for reference types. See hashCode in scala.Any.

    returns

      the hash code value for this object.

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef → Any

28. #### final def isInstanceOf[T0]: Boolean

    Test whether the dynamic type of the receiver object is `T0`.

    Test whether the dynamic type of the receiver object is `T0`.

    Note that the result of the test is modulo Scala's erasure semantics. Therefore the expression `1.isInstanceOf[String]` will return `false`, while the expression `List(1).isInstanceOf[List[String]]` will return `true`. In the latter example, because the type argument is erased as part of compilation it is not possible to check whether the contents of the list are of the specified type.

    returns

      `true` if the receiver object is an instance of erasure of type `T0`; `false` otherwise.

    Definition Classes
      Any

29. #### def lookupVariable(vble: String, site: Global.Symbol): Option[String]

    Lookup definition of variable.

    Lookup definition of variable.

    vble

      The variable for which a definition is searched

    site

      The class for which doc comments are generated

30. #### def merge(src: String, dst: String, sym: Global.Symbol, copyFirstPara: Boolean = false): String

    Merge elements of doccomment `src` into doc comment `dst` for symbol `sym`.

    Merge elements of doccomment `src` into doc comment `dst` for symbol `sym`. In detail:

    1. If `copyFirstPara` is true, copy first paragraph 2. For all parameters of `sym` if there is no @param section in `dst` for that parameter name, but there is one on `src`, copy that section. 3. If there is no @return section in `dst` but there is one in `src`, copy it.

31. #### final def ne(arg0: AnyRef): Boolean

    Equivalent to `!(this eq that)`.

    Equivalent to `!(this eq that)`.

    returns

      `true` if the argument is not a reference to the receiver object; `false` otherwise.

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef

32. #### final def notify(): Unit

    Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

    Wakes up a single thread that is waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef
    Note

      not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

33. #### final def notifyAll(): Unit

    Wakes up all threads that are waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

    Wakes up all threads that are waiting on the receiver object's monitor.

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef
    Note

      not specified by SLS as a member of AnyRef

34. #### def rawDocComment(sym: Global.Symbol): String

    The raw doc comment of symbol `sym`, as it appears in the source text, "" if missing.

35. #### def replaceInheritDocToInheritdoc(docStr: String): String

36. #### def superComment(sym: Global.Symbol): Option[String]

    The cooked doc comment of an overridden symbol

    The cooked doc comment of an overridden symbol

    Attributes
      protected

37. #### final def synchronized[T0](arg0: ⇒ T0): T0

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef

38. #### def toString(): String

    Creates a String representation of this object.

    Creates a String representation of this object. The default representation is platform dependent. On the java platform it is the concatenation of the class name, "@", and the object's hashcode in hexadecimal.

    returns

      a String representation of the object.

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef → Any

39. #### def useCases(sym: Global.Symbol, site: Global.Symbol): List[(Global.Symbol, String, Global.Position)]

    The list of use cases of doc comment of symbol `sym` seen as a member of class `site`.

    The list of use cases of doc comment of symbol `sym` seen as a member of class `site`. Each use case consists of a synthetic symbol (which is entered nowhere else), of an expanded doc comment string, and of its position.

    sym

      The symbol for which use cases are returned

    site

      The class for which doc comments are generated

    Exceptions thrown

      `ExpansionLimitExceeded` when more than 10 successive expansions of the same string are done, which is interpreted as a recursive variable definition.

40. #### final def wait(): Unit

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef
    Annotations
      @throws( ... )

41. #### final def wait(arg0: Long, arg1: Int): Unit

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef
    Annotations
      @throws( ... )

42. #### final def wait(arg0: Long): Unit

    Definition Classes
      AnyRef
    Annotations
      @throws( ... )

43. #### def →[B](y: B): (DocComments, B)

    Implicit information
      This member is added by an implicit conversion from DocComments to ArrowAssoc[DocComments] performed by method ArrowAssoc in scala.Predef.
    Definition Classes
      ArrowAssoc

### Inherited from AnyRef

### Inherited from Any

### Inherited by implicit conversion any2stringadd from DocComments to any2stringadd[DocComments]

### Inherited by implicit conversion StringFormat from DocComments to StringFormat[DocComments]

### Inherited by implicit conversion Ensuring from DocComments to Ensuring[DocComments]

### Inherited by implicit conversion ArrowAssoc from DocComments to ArrowAssoc[DocComments]

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