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Bug 345207 - support capture of Comments in the EDT model
Summary: support capture of Comments in the EDT model
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: z_Archived
Classification: Eclipse Foundation
Component: EDT (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 7
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2011-05-09 16:58 EDT by Aaron Allsbrook CLA
Modified: 2017-02-23 14:16 EST (History)
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Description Aaron Allsbrook CLA 2011-05-09 16:58:36 EDT 
I would like for comments that exist as part, field, and function headers to be included in the EDT model.  This would allow for documentation and reporting based on comments in the model.  

This enhancement would also allow additional documentation of code generators and visualizers with the use of comment annotations
Comment 1 Lisa Lasher CLA 2011-06-10 15:07:48 EDT 
changing the severity from Normal to Enhancement to show that this is a function request (RFE), not a bug.  This will ensure that it gets considered in our iteration planning.
Comment 2 Justin Spadea CLA 2012-04-18 10:19:02 EDT 
The lexer currently has two flags that can be enabled to capture comments:

returnLineComments
returnBlockComments

The comments will then be stored in org.eclipse.edt.compiler.core.ast.File. What might be a worthwhile approach to this enhancement would be to add another flag to the lexer that, when set, it will weave in all the comments into the AST tree after parsing, based on their offsets, instead of just adding them all to a list in File which doesn't really tell you which nodes the comments were for.