adding links in javadoc to source files on google code

Question

I work on an open source project that is hosted on google code. I'm using ant to create javadocs and I'd like to have links to the source files. I understand I can use the linksource flag to javadoc to include the source in the resulting html, but this isn't what I really want. What I'd prefer is to provide a link to the source file in google code's svn browser. I suppose I could do a simple filter prior to running javadoc, but it'd be even better if I could figure a way to do this right in javadoc. Ideally, I could have a property in my ant properties file like

base.src.url=http://code.google.com/p/myproject/source/browse/branches/1.2

and the javadoc command would add a line to each class's html file:

<a href="http://code.google.com/p/myproject/source/browse/branches/1.2/[package]/[classname].html">see source on google code</a>

Any ideas?

Answer 1

The standard doclet offers no such option, as far as I know. So it looks you either have to

• use an alternative doclet,
• patch the standard doclet,
• preprocess the Java files or
• postprocess the produced HTML.

A feature request to include this in the standard doclet might also be a good idea.