Force doxygen to ignore class extensions in Objective-C

Question

Is there a way to force doxygen to ignore all class extensions in an Objective-C project without using preprocessor directives?

I use class extensions extensively in my Class.m files for my private attributes. When I use doxygen to generate documentation for my application, the generated class list includes all of my "secret" class extensions. I would like to hide these extensions from the generated documentation.

I can get doxygen to ignore a particular class extension by using the doxygen preprocessor and surrounding the extension in the Class.m with a #ifndef/#endif. I really don't like adding this to all of my Class.m files that have the internal extensions, because I feel that I am adding more clutter to my files.

Answer 1

If you want exclude all the class continuation add this row to the Doxy file

EXCLUDE_SYMBOLS        = *()

Answer 2

The class extensions can be excluded without changing the source code. This can be done by listing the class extensions in the exclude_symbols setting. See the sample screenshot: