Ignoring Javadoc errors in dependencies

[Choonster]

My mod depends on HWYLA, which has an API JAR containing both compiled classes and their source code. Unfortunately there seem to be some Javadoc errors in this code, which is preventing the generation of Javadoc for my own code.

 

The Gradle output looks like this (from this CI run):

> Task :processResources
> Task :classes
> Task :makeLibraryMetas UP-TO-DATE
> Task :jar
> Task :downloadMcpConfig
> Task :extractSrg
> Task :createMcpToSrg
> Task :reobfJar
/home/runner/.gradle/caches/forge_gradle/deobf_dependencies/mcp/mobius/waila/Hwyla/1.10.11-B78_1.16.2_mapped_snapshot_20200916-1.16.2/Hwyla-1.10.11-B78_1.16.2_mapped_snapshot_20200916-1.16.2-api.jar(mcp/mobius/waila/api/IComponentProvider.java):56: error: invalid end tag: </br>

     * Callback used to add lines to one of the three sections of the tooltip (Head, Body, Tail).</br>
                                                                                                 ^
/home/runner/.gradle/caches/forge_gradle/deobf_dependencies/mcp/mobius/waila/Hwyla/1.10.11-B78_1.16.2_mapped_snapshot_20200916-1.16.2/Hwyla-1.10.11-B78_1.16.2_mapped_snapshot_20200916-1.16.2-api.jar(mcp/mobius/waila/api/IComponentProvider.java):57: error: invalid end tag: </br>
     * Will only be called if the implementing class is registered via {@link IRegistrar#registerComponentProvider(IComponentProvider, TooltipPosition, Class)}.</br>
> Task :javadoc
                                                                                                                                                                ^
/home/runner/.gradle/caches/forge_gradle/deobf_dependencies/mcp/mobius/waila/Hwyla/1.10.11-B78_1.16.2_mapped_snapshot_20200916-1.16.2/Hwyla-1.10.11-B78_1.16.2_mapped_snapshot_20200916-1.16.2-api.jar(mcp/mobius/waila/api/IComponentProvider.java):58: error: invalid end tag: </br>
     * You are supposed to always return the modified input tooltip.</br>
                                                                    ^
/home/runner/.gradle/caches/forge_gradle/deobf_dependencies/mcp/mobius/waila/Hwyla/1.10.11-B78_1.16.2_mapped_snapshot_20200916-1.16.2/Hwyla-1.10.11-B78_1.16.2_mapped_snapshot_20200916-1.16.2-api.jar(mcp/mobius/waila/api/RenderableTextComponent.java):5: error: package mcp.mobius.waila.api.impl does not exist
import mcp.mobius.waila.api.impl.WailaRegistrar;
                                ^
4 errors

> Task :javadoc FAILED

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* What went wrong:
Execution failed for task ':javadoc'.
> Javadoc generation failed. Generated Javadoc options file (useful for troubleshooting): '/home/runner/work/TestMod3/TestMod3/build/tmp/javadoc/javadoc.options'

 

How can I tell Gradle/Javadoc to ignore these errors and just generate the documentation for my own code? I could probably turn off doclint, but I'd rather avoid doing that.

 

I've tried inspecting the tasks.javadoc.source property and adding an exclude filter to the task; but these only contain the paths of my own code, not the HWYLA JAR or source files.

[Serilum]

Does using the '--continue' flag in the gradlew command work?

[Choonster]

  On 10/19/2020 at 12:57 PM, Serilum said:

Does using the '--continue' flag in the gradlew command work?

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That lets it continue to other tasks after javadoc, but the Javadoc generation still fails.

[Choonster]

I've cross-posted this to StackOverflow here, hopefully someone over there will have an answer.

[Choonster]

I've reported this to Hwyla here.

[deathchanter]

Hmmm.. So I'm also looking into the same thing. Is there anyway to suppress errors and just generate the htmls using javadoc?

[Choonster]

I never found a way to ignore the errors; but I eventually replaced HWYLA with Jade, which doesn't have this issue.