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Is possible to get the oracle documentation of methods?

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
emacs-lisp, java

Research direction

Start by examining how lsp-java and lsp-ui currently present documentation for methods such as System.out.println(...), and inspect the language-server response available for that symbol. The work is done when the full Oracle/Javadoc description is available through the relevant documentation view, or the limitation is clearly documented if the server does not provide it.

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Description

I'm interesting in getting the oracle documentation of methods like here: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/20/docs/api/java.base/java/io/PrintStream.html#println().

Example for System.out.println(...) I only get void java.io.PrintStream.println(...) not a ful description of what the method does.

There is a way to have this with lsp-java / lsp-ui or not for now ?

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Emacs Lisp
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