Question

I was hoping that my code, something like below, could generate documents describing each property of the object literal with JSDoc(v2.4.0), but it did not work. Does anyone know how to work with JSDoc to generate documents from code that uses getter/setter?

/** Enum of days of week. */
var Day = {
    /** Sunday. */
    get Sun() { return 0; },
    /** Monday. */
    get Mon() { return 1; },
    /** Thuesday. */
    get Tue() { return 2; },
    /** Wednesday. */
    get Wed() { return 3; },
    /** Thursday. */
    get Thu() { return 4; },
    /** Friday. */
    get Fri() { return 5; },
    /** Saturday. */
    get Sat() { return 6; }
}

Answer 1

You could use jQuery style getter / setter methods:

/**
 * Get colour of object
 * @returns {mixed}
 *//**
 * Set colour of object
 * @param {mixed} val
 * @returns {this}
 */
colour: function(val) {
    if (val === undefined)
       return this.colour;
    else {
       this.colour = val;
       return this;
    }
}

I have just been discussing this very issue with Michael himself. It is possible in jsDoc3 (https://github.com/micmath/jsdoc) due to a very cool feature. It is possible to stack multiple docblocks (one for getter and one for setter):

http://groups.google.com/group/jsdoc-users/browse_thread/thread/d4c7794bc8f6648e/94df7339e1fc4c91#94df7339e1fc4c91