CODEWITHSUNDEEP
intellij-idea
tomo_s
tomo_s

Reputation: 35

IntelliJ IDEA shows decompiled .class instead of documentation

I am using same version of IntelliJ IDEA (2016.3.5) on Windows and Linux. The problem is that on Linux IntelliJ IDEA doesn't show java documentation after clicking "Ctrl" + left mouse button , but it shows decompiled .class file. It's not big problem but it's annoying. What may be wrong? I tried to restore default settings but it didn't help.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1301

Answers (1)

Software Engineer
Software Engineer

Reputation: 16140

You're not showing docs, you're drilling down into the implementation of a library method. You haven't attached the sources for the library, so the ide has no choice but to decompile the code in order to let you see the method you're trying to reach. If you're using maven you can download the sources and then when you drill down you'll see real code. Restoring default settings won't help, because this is how its meant to work.

Further; when IntelliJ shows documentation (ctrl-q on my machine) it tries to build the javadocs directly from the source, not from the published javadocs which it ignores. This is another reason to download the sources along with your libs.

BTW: When you 'release' your own libs to your corporate repo you should be building and releasing sources too, so that the users of your libs get the ability to drill down into the implementation, and so that they get access to your api's javadocs.

Upvotes: 1

Related Questions