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Bug ID: 4497167
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Synopsis Links to "specified by" don't go to the interface
Category customdoclets:mifdoclet
Reported Against 1.2beta1 , merlin-beta3
Release Fixed 1.2beta2
State 10-Fix Delivered, bug
Priority: 3-Medium
Related Bugs
Submit Date 28-AUG-2001
Description
Doug Kramer wrote:
> 
> Thanks for pointing this out to us -- I confirm what you're
> getting.  The line that I would click on is:
> 
> Specified By: methodDefinedInInterface1()12 in interface Class1 9
> 
> Notice this has the mistake "in interface Class1".
> Class1 is not an interface -- it should say "in interface Interface1".
> 
> I just downloaded the MIF doclet from the website, and the api.pdf
> file at mifdoclet1.2\test\example-commandline\sample-out\pdf\api.pdf
> is the same as you sent me.
> 
> Jamie, this appears to be a problem with the released 1.2b1
> running on J2SE 1.3.
> Links to "specified by" don't go to the interface, but to
> the same class.
> 
> I haven't tried re-running the script, but to reproduce the
> problem api.pdf file, you would run
> mifdoclet1.2\test\example-bookfile\runmif
> 
> If this is indeed a problem, this is important enough for us
> release as beta2.  This is a lower priority than 1.4.
> 
> -Doug
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: MIFDoclet, "Specified by" links
> Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 09:46:43 -0400
> From: Marcel Neuhausler <  xxxxx@xxxxx  >
> To: Doug Kramer <  xxxxx@xxxxx  >
> 
> Hi Doug,
> 
> At 05:52 PM 8/16/2001, you wrote:
> >....Go to Class1.methodDefinedInInteface1, click on "specified by"
> >link and it goes to Interface1.
> 
> Doesn't behave like that with the version (Version 1.2 Beta 1) I
> downloaded, see attached api.pdf. The links are pointing to itself,
> Class1
> and  methodDefinedInInteface1???
> 
> Now I'm confused, I don't know pdf very well, but I don't think that
> that
> is an Acrobat Reader (4.05a) version issue.
> 
> Thanks anyway for responding so quickly :-)
> --Marcel
> 
> >First, can you find an example in that api.pdf that does not work?
> >
> >Or show me your actual command line, error messages,
> >directory setup, file locations, etc.
> >
> >-Doug
> >
> >
> >  | Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:41:54 -0400
> >  | To: javadoc-  xxxxx@xxxxx  
> >  | From: Marcel Neuhausler <  xxxxx@xxxxx  >
> >  | Subject: MIFDoclet, "Specified by" links
> >  |
> >  | Hello MIFDoclet-Team,
> >  |
> >  | somehow the "Specified by" links don't point to members in the
> >  | correspondent interfaces, instead it points back to class in which the
> >  | "Specified by" link is located. Any ideas about that behaviour?
> >  |
> >  | Thanks for any help
> >  | --Marcel
> >  |
> 
>   ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>               Name: api.pdf
>    api.pdf    Type: Portable Document Format (application/pdf)
>           Encoding: base64
Work Around
N/A
Evaluation
Going through all the cases of "Specified by" in the standard sample-out
(generated in test/example-commandline), all such cases are correct.
It appears this bug has been fixed somewhere during the bug fixes in 
1.2beta2.  So closing out as fixed.
  xxxxx@xxxxx   2002-01-25
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