Docs include types from excluded files

[domoritz]

https://github.com/apache/arrow/blob/ca83a14e264d00c6b4b29560cc2816c6718f52e7/js/typedoc.js#L26 excludes src/fb/*.ts but the types from it still appear in the docs when built with yarn doc.

I would expect them to not be in the docs.

Environment

• Typedoc version: 0.20.35
• TypeScript version: 4.0.2
• Node.js version: 14
• OS: macOS

[Gerrit0]

This is expected behavior:

This option will only be used to filter entry points specified under directories. - exclude docs

[Gerrit0]

There is a plugin that provides the type of filtering you're looking for: https://github.com/Gerrit0/typedoc-plugin-banish... but I haven't checked if it works in 0.20.

Alternatively, the externalPattern along with excludeExternals options can be used to perform the same filtering.

[Gerrit0]

Thinking about this some more, it does seem reasonable to extend exclude to also work here. I'm open to treating this as a feature request. Needs to be a part of 0.21 though, breaking change.

[domoritz]

Thank you for the suggestions. I'll try them. And yes, it would be great to refine the exclude behavior in the next version.

[domoritz]

typedoc-plugin-banish does not seem to work

[domoritz]

externalPattern does exactly what I want. I think it would make sense to make exclude work like externalPattern.