Documenting functions contained in Objects with JSDoc

Question

I'm looking for a way to document functions contained in a Dictionary in Javascript with JSDoc 3.

Even though I tell JSDoc there is a function with @function , it is not included in the generated documentation.

Is there a JSDoc tag that could help? Or is there a more convenient approach than mine?

Thanks

/**
 * @namespace Minitel
 */ 
var Minitel = Minitel || {}

/**
 * @callback actionCallback 
 * @param {Stream} stream The Minitel Stream to which add the Videotex codes
 * @param {Object} data Data object
 * @param {?number} offsetX X offset
 * @param {?number} offsetY Y offset
 */

/**
 * Action callbacks
 * @member {Object.<string, actionCallback>}
 */
Minitel.actions = {}

/**
 * Handles "content-string" actions. The value should already be ready to be
 * sent in the stream.
 * @function
 */
Minitel.actions["content-string"] = function(stream, data) {
    /* ... */
}

/**
 * Handles "content-block" actions. It only supports left, center and right
 * alignment.
 * @function
 */
Minitel.actions["content-block"] = function(stream, data, offsetX, offsetY) {
    /* ... */
}

I'm using jsdoc -p -c jsdoc.json app/*.js library/minitel/*.js to generate the documentation

Here is jsdoc.json :

{
    "plugins": ["plugins/markdown"],
    "opts": {
        "template": "../docdash"
    }
}

Answer 1

I am not sure (as jsdoc is not verbose sometimes) but it looks like @member can not have children. A solution can be to use @namespace .

So your actions will be documented as follows:

/**
 * Action callbacks
 * @namespace
 */

One issue with @namespace is that you cannot define a type for it. But in this case all methods are documented even without @function as static ones.