--exclude option does not work

[Lodin]

Trying to generate documentation for my project I have faced with the problem that typedoc tried to generate documentation for spec.ts files I excluded in the typedoc command in my package.json script section:

{
    "docs": "typedoc --out docs --exclude **/*.spec.ts src",
}

It worked even when I moved my tests from src to the separate test directory. So I assume that specifying a directory as an argument of typedoc command does not work too.

I googled a lot, but found nothing except an old issue that did not help me at all despite I tried all of examples from there.

So I decided to look at the code, and after some investigation found that it might be a problem at this line. When I added an exclude check from here, it compiled as it should, only for non-spec files.

I use the typedoc@0.5.5, typescript@2.2.0-dev.

[ollwenjones]

Same problem here.

[mjkkirschner]

same here.

[goodmind]

How to do multiple excludes? It seems that this not working:

typedoc --out docs --exclude '**/+(test|node_modules)/**/*.ts' packages/filte
ring --module commonjs

[tonysneed]

I have this:

"docs": "typedoc --out dist/docs --target es6 --theme minimal --mode modules --exclude **/*.spec.ts src",

But my spec files are still included in the docs/modules folder . Any ideas?

Edit: It looks like typedoc is ignoring the --exclude argument and instead relying on tsconfig.json. If I put an exclude section there with a file glob, then typedoc picks it up.

[blakeembrey]

@tonysneed Are you on Windows? Have you tried quoting the argument like --exclude "**/*.spec.ts"?

[tonysneed]

@blakeembrey That worked! Thanks!!

[Tokimon]

I have the same issue. I have tried basically everything there is to try but it still includes my test files.
I have a simple call: typedoc --out ./docs --exclude "./test/**/*.*". But it totally ignores my exclude settings and keeps including my test files. I have tried: typedoc.json, typedoc.js, typedocOptions and the CLI argument but nothing works. I have even tried to specify the path to my tsconfig (./tsconfig.json that even have the same exclude: ./test/**/*.*) but to no avail. I have no clue what I am doing wrong.

As a side note (and probably another issue); if I have a typedoc.js and run the typedoc command it simply opens my typedoc.js file and stops running.

OS: Windows
Typedoc version: 0.9.0

[Gerrit0]

If anyone can provide a repo that can reproduce this issue it would help greatly. As far as I can tell the exclude option works correctly so long as the minimatch glob is set correctly.

A few things to remember:

1. Always start with **/, the pattern will not match anything if you fail to do this since Typedoc passes the full path of files to Minimatch.
2. Remember to quote your globs - your shell may be expanding them.

If you aren't sure what will be excluded, I've set up a simple RequireBin demo to demonstrate which patterns do what.

Examples:

1. Ignore node_modules, tests folder, **/{test,node_modules}/**/*.ts
2. Ignore node_modules, .spec.ts files, **/{node_modules/**/*,*.spec}.ts
3. Ignore test files **/.{spec,test}.ts

Edit: December 2018 - The above advice regarding absolute paths will no longer be valid with the next release of TypeDoc. The exclude option has been updated to use the relative path to process.cwd().

[Tokimon]

Isn't having to add the **/ in the beginning of your expression a bit atypical? Usually the expression is joined with cwd when using other APIs (Like TypeScript). But maybe there is some reason for doing it like this I have missed. However this confusion seems to be the root of the confusion I think.

Personally I finally dug into your code a found out that I had to add the **/ to the beginning of my expression for it to work. But then it also works great. But it was confusing. Maybe it could be an idea to add it as a comment in the docs?

[dupski]

For people having problems with multiple excludes, I got it working with 0.11 using the --options argument and a JS config file.

See #170 (comment)