Though it helps cut down on boilerplate code significantly, that isn’t the primary reason for its introduction. Records introduce a new type declaration that simplifies the task of modeling your immutable data. You can use this link for a comprehensive list of the new Java 16 features. In this blog post, I will limit coverage of Java 16 to its language features, why you need them, and how you can start using them in IntelliJ IDEA. I’m personally excited about Java 16! It adds Records and Pattern Matching for instanceof as standard language features with Sealed classes continuing to be a preview feature (in the second preview).įun fact – Records was voted the most popular Java 16 language feature by 1158 developers in this Twitter poll, with Pattern Matching for instanceof second. However, you’ll see these numbers are going to increment at a much faster and predictable rate with Java’s six-month release cadence. There are other solutions too, but because I use Maven for my projects, this is by far the most appropriate solution I can think of.If you are still working with Java 8, you might have mixed feelings about the news of the release of Java 16.
It'll probably download the JavaDoc from the repo and attach it. I haven't tried it myself, but I think it'll work. Do steps 1 and 2 above, then right-click the spigot-api (or bukkit, whatever) dependency in the project's "Maven Dependencies" subnode and select Maven->Download JavaDoc ( screenshot).Method B: Download and Attach Javadoc for One Dependency on Demand A bonus of this automatic method is you'll then have Javadoc attached for loads of things you never had it for before.
But I'm pretty sure the long wait is a one-time thing: once they're downloaded, they're downloaded. It'll take a while to download the Javadoc archives (and source archives if that option is also ticked), because it's downloading them for all of the dependencies it can (and their dependencies, and their dependencies, etc).
The way I solved it was to enable automatic downloading and attachment of Javadoc for all Maven project dependencies. Method A: Enable Automatic Javadoc Download and Attachment for all Maven Project Dependencies
If your project uses Maven, there is a very simple solution that is probably smarter anyway because it'll be sure to show you the right version Javadoc for the version of spigot-api (or bukkit, whatever) you're building against.įor Maven projects, the solution is to have Maven download the Javadoc archive for the dependency if one is available.Ī quick definition: to attach Javadoc to a dependency means to tell the IDE "use when getting Javadoc for this resource." I do not know if this filtering is intentional or not, but it means using (or bukkit, whatever) as the Javadoc location for spigot-api (or bukkit, whatever) won't work in an IDE that reports its user agent as Java. My installation apparently reports its user agent as "Java/1.7.0_02", for example. Eclipse's user agent string seems to default to Java's because Eclipse is a Java program itself.
It appears the Javadoc site is sending HTTP 403 Forbidden responses to requests with a user agent field that begins with the string "Java/1.". Click to expand.I spent yesterday afternoon sorting this issue out and here's what I found.