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Max commented on MJAVADOC-628:
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creating JIRA as suggested by Enrico Olivelli in the email.
> add javadoc.io link pattern when <detectLink> option is set to true
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> Key: MJAVADOC-628
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MJAVADOC-628
> Project: Maven Javadoc Plugin
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: javadoc
> Affects Versions: next-release
> Reporter: Max
> Priority: Major
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> For example, google gson ([https://github.com/google/gson]) has pointed their
> javadoc to [https://www.javadoc.io/doc/com.google.code.gson/gson] on their
> README.md. But currently, maven-javadoc-plugin will only try to fetch
> [https://github.com/google/gson/apidoc/package-list] , which apparently is an
> invalid address. It doesn't make sense to have github, a source control
> system to keep track of generated files as well.
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> Many popular libraries are hosting javadoc with
> [javadoc.io|http://javadoc.io/] already (eg, mockito / spark), and the
> pattern is very simple as well:
> https://www.javadoc.io/doc/[group_id]/[artifact_id]/[version_id]/package-list
> This will work with <links> tag, but that's quite tedious as everytime we
> have to manually keep things in sync when we add / remove dependencies or
> update dependency versions.
> Thus, it will be quite helpful if maven-javadoc-plugin can just automatically
> try this url pattern from the dependency list as well.
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