On Tue, 2014-02-25 at 01:08 +0000, sebb wrote: > On 24 February 2014 16:33, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > > +1 > > > > If we have a public subclass of a package private class, I should be able > > to see all of the methods I can call on that class (and super class). > > That's not the case here. It's a public class using a package class. > > http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-4.3.x/httpclient-cache/apidocs/org/apache/http/impl/client/cache/ExponentialBackOffSchedulingStrategy.html#schedule%28org.apache.http.impl.client.cache.AsynchronousValidationRequest%29 > > Which begs the question - how is it used externally? > > The schedule method implements an interface so has to be public, but > perhaps it is only intended for use internally. > In which case the Javadoc should probably make this clear. >
In this package private classes ought not be referenced by public javadocs. Oleg --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
