JavaDoc URL wrong

[blakemcbride]

Apache NetBeans version

Apache NetBeans 15

What happened

I select "Show JavaDoc" for a java.time.ZonedDateTime object when using Java 17, but NetBeans went to the wrong URL. See the two images. The first shows where NetBeans is going. The second shows the correct path.

Thanks!

This is where NetBeans goes when I select "Show JavaDoc":

This is where it should be going:

How to reproduce

No response

Did this work correctly in an earlier version?

No / Don't know

Operating System

Fedora Linux

JDK

17

Apache NetBeans packaging

Apache NetBeans binary zip

Anything else

No response

Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

Code of Conduct

Yes

[mbien]

Hmm. It seems to leave out the module in the path on your first screenshot. When I tried to replicate it it did work as intended though.

Are there any exceptions when this happens?

[mbien]

reminds me of #4363 moduleNameFor() might not return a module for the class in question and if it returns null it assumes its a non-modular javadoc.

[neilcsmith-net]

I cannot reproduce this issue here with a standard Maven project. What's the nature of the project? It shouldn't usually fail for JDK classes, although as referenced in https://github.com/apache/netbeans/pull/4363#issuecomment-1181491931 it does for NetBeans' own source files.

moduleNameFor() has a known issue in that it relies on the class that has modular Javadoc being on the module path, not the class path, of the project. We could do with a more robust fix that introspects to find module info even if on the class path, and tries multiple URL's.

[neilcsmith-net]

Incidentally, this is related to / duplicates #4044