links to protected members do not work without first changing "Member Visibility"

[bd82]

Search terms

• Member Visibility
• Protected

Expected Behavior && Actual Behavior

Given a link to a protected member I would expect it to "just" work.
But if the "Member Visibility" has not been set with "protected" enabled.
The link will not work.

Note that by default protected members are hidden so links to protected/private members will
simply not work...

Steps to reproduce the bug

• Open: https://chevrotain.io/documentation/10_4_0/classes/CstParser.html#canTokenTypeBeInsertedInRecovery

• Note that the link will open the "root" of the class and not the specific canTokenTypeBeInsertedInRecovery method.

• Open the settings menu in the top right corner.

• enable "Member Visibility" of protected members.

• close the browser tab

• Open the same link again: https://chevrotain.io/documentation/10_4_0/classes/CstParser.html#canTokenTypeBeInsertedInRecovery

• Now the link works as expected.

You can also reproduce this using the super simple repo which includes my settings and config.

• https://github.com/bd82/typedoc_no_protected

Environment

"typedoc": "0.23.19",
"typescript": "4.7.4",

• Node.js version: 18.4.0
• OS: Win11

[Gerrit0]

Bleh :/ this is going to be annoying to fix. The best fix is probably to take you where it should be, and show you a prompt that indicates it's hidden because of settings, ideally with something to click to make it show up...

[Gerrit0]

Temporary workaround: you can set visibilityFilters to default protected members to visible.

[bd82]

Thanks.
I applied the workaround, although it did seem like I had to clear cache / hard-reload in
my browser for it to be applied.

[Gerrit0]

That filter preference is stored in localStorage