Returns the signature with qualified types, however without type parameters. For instance, for a method
addAll(int index, Collection<? extends E> c)
it will return
(int, java.util.Collection)
For comparison, the full signature returned for that method by signature attribute will look like
(int, java.util.Collection<? extends E>)

This attribute is implemented by DocFlex above the Doclet API. It is needed because the Standard Javadoc Doclet uses such "raw" signatures in HTML hyperlink anchor names of the constructor/method documentation it generates. For that reason, the rawSignature attribute is used in the templates provided with DocFlex/Javadoc (e.g. in class.tpl) to generate the hyperlink refs and names in the same way as the Standard Doclet so as to allow creating links to existing standard javadoc-generated documentation from the output generated by DocFlex and vice versa (with -link or -linkoffline options on Javadoc command line).

Since:

JDK 1.5
See Also:
ExecutableMemberDoc/@signature