Hi Chris, thanks for this. Can you help me understand why the class resolution happens at runtime instead of at compile time?

Hi Chris, thanks for this. Can you help me understand why the class resolution happens at runtime instead of at compile time?

I was about to comment the same thing. I wonder why we don't just resolve the class names with respect to the imports at compile time, to provide the fully qualified class names in the JSON then. I think the notion of imports shouldn't make it to the JSON representation of the Javadoc.

Can you help me understand why the class resolution happens at runtime instead of at compile time?

I agree that having it done at the time of generating the json would be preferable. I flagged this before I started when I mentioned writing the imports to the json file. joffrey is right that not having them in there at all is preferable. At this stage, given how long the ticket has stood open, I would argue that a runtime resolver is preferable over having no resolver and this ticket remaining stagnant. Once we have how to resolve within the javac api licked, then the runtime resolver can be pulled. Or if this PR inspires somebody to write that now, that would be great.