@value tag dosen't work for java.math.BigInteger constants

I apologize, I should have supplied more context....

Here is my sample source

package ...;

import java.math.BigInteger;

public class TestJavaDoc

{

/**

* TEST_STRING has value {@value}

*/

public static final String TEST_STRING = "IFQ Permit ";

/**

* TEST_BIG_INTEGER has value {@value}

* Should also work like this {@value #TEST_BIG_INTEGER}

* Constant ONE has a value {@value BigInteger#ONE}

*/

public static final BigInteger TEST_BIG_INTEGER = BigInteger.valueOf(1000);

}

Here is the generated Javadoc, where you can see that @value works for a String, but fails for BigInteger....

TEST_STRING

public static final java.lang.String TEST_STRING

TEST_STRING has value "IFQ Permit "

TEST_BIG_INTEGER

public static final java.math.BigInteger TEST_BIG_INTEGER

TEST_BIG_INTEGER has value {@value}

Should also work like this {@value}

Constant ONE has a value {@value}

Here is more context:

>javadoc -J-version

java version "1.4.2_09"

Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, Standard Edition (build 1.4.2_09-b05)

Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 1.4.2_09-b05, mixed mode)

excerpt from build.xml:

<target name="larryDoc"

description="Generates JavaDoc Business Rule classes">

<tstamp>

<format property="generation.time" pattern="MM/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss aa"/>

</tstamp>

<javadoc

destdir="./businessRules"

author = "true"

version = "true"

use = "true"

windowtitle = "Business Rules"

additionalparam="-breakiterator">

<fileset dir="../business/src" defaultexcludes="yes">

<include name="org/psmfc/er/business/TestJavaDoc.java"/>

</fileset>

<classpath>

<path>

<pathelement path="IER/business/classes"/>

</path>

</classpath>

<bottom>generated: ${generation.time}</bottom>

</javadoc>

</target>

lrtalleya at 2007-7-16 23:40:55 >

Thanks for the info. I presume that design decision was for expediency, I can imagine that it is several orders of magnitude simpler to render the value of an RH constant than it is to interpret and render the value of an expression....

I need to be reminded that Javadoc is a text processing tool and not an integral part of the Java compiler.

It would be very nice if it could render the value of any constants.

lrtalleya at 2007-7-16 23:40:55 >