Add JavaInfo as a (preferred) alias to java_common.provider.

RELNOTES: `JavaInfo` is a preferred alias to `java_common.provider`.
PiperOrigin-RevId: 167116971

2 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/java/JavaInfo.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/java/JavaInfo.java
index f50fae3012..787d460f82 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/java/JavaInfo.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/java/JavaInfo.java
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 
 /** A Skylark declared provider that encapsulates all providers that are needed by Java rules. */
 @SkylarkModule(
-    name = "java_common.provider",
+    name = "JavaInfo",
     doc = "Encapsulates all information provided by Java rules",
     category = SkylarkModuleCategory.PROVIDER
 )
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ import javax.annotation.Nullable;
 public final class JavaInfo extends NativeInfo {
 
   public static final NativeProvider<JavaInfo> PROVIDER =
-      new NativeProvider<JavaInfo>(JavaInfo.class, "java_common.provider") {};
+      new NativeProvider<JavaInfo>(JavaInfo.class, "JavaInfo") {};
 
   private static final ImmutableSet<Class<? extends TransitiveInfoProvider>> ALLOWED_PROVIDERS =
       ImmutableSet.of(
diff --git a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/java/JavaSkylarkCommon.java b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/java/JavaSkylarkCommon.java
index 2567876b66..2d9288e3d2 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/java/JavaSkylarkCommon.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/rules/java/JavaSkylarkCommon.java
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ public class JavaSkylarkCommon {
   @SkylarkCallable(
     name = "provider",
     structField = true,
-    doc = "Returns the Java declared provider."
+    doc = "Returns the Java declared provider. <br>"
+        + "The same value is accessible as <code>JavaInfo</code>. <br>"
+        + "Prefer using <code>JavaInfo</code> in new code."
   )
   public Provider getJavaProvider() {
     return JavaInfo.PROVIDER;
@@ -58,7 +60,7 @@ public class JavaSkylarkCommon {
   @SkylarkCallable(
     name = "create_provider",
     documented = false,
-    doc = "Create a java_common.provider from pre-built jars. Note that compile_time_jars and "
+    doc = "Create JavaInfo from pre-built jars. Note that compile_time_jars and "
         + "runtime_jars are not automatically merged into the recursive jars - if this is the "
         + "desired behaviour the user should merge the jars before creating the provider. "
         + "The recursive (compile/runtime) jars are the jars usually collected transitively from "
@@ -414,7 +416,7 @@ public class JavaSkylarkCommon {
 
   @SkylarkCallable(
     name = "merge",
-    doc = "Merges the given providers into a single java_common.provider.",
+    doc = "Merges the given providers into a single JavaInfo.",
     // We have one positional argument: the list of providers to merge.
     mandatoryPositionals = 1
   )