List of all functions an their toolboxes

Is there a way to get a list of the names of all toolbox functions?

If I publish a toolbox, I want to avoid conflicts with Matlab's toolboxes. I've published a tool to check conflicts with the installed toolboxes already. For sharing my functions with others, a complete list preferrably with the names of the corresponding toolboxes would be very useful.

It would be easy to grab it from a local full installation, but I do not have access to all licenses. Would grabbing the web help sections work?

Answer 1

[Steven Lord]

So you're looking for something like the function lists? This one is for MATLAB; each product has its own page like this.

Are you concerned about the fact that not all functions in our products have function reference pages? One example is the undocumented feature function.

Do you care about a conflict between a name used by user code and a name that is only implemented as a method of one or more classes rather than being in the global namespace? As a concrete example, would you allow a user function named addCause even though the MException class defines an addCause method?

How about imports? Is a user function named Scalar okay even though if a user imported the matlab.mixin package they'd call the matlab.mixin.Scalar class as just Scalar?

[Jan]

Thanks for the list of functions in the reference page. I've searched for such lists without success, obviously due to a bad choise of search terms. I try to grab these pages and expect, that the problem is solved.

If a toolbox written by users contains an addCause command, it cannot collide with the method of MExepctions, as far as I can see.

Imports have a higher precedence than toolbox functions (of Matlab or users). A warning of shadowing a function by an import might be useful, but this can be intentionally also. I do not see a way to check this with my tool yet, so I leave this point open currently.

A tool for finding name conflicts cannot be perfect, but it can find some conflicts. In the past several questions concerned errors of the license service, which identified a user-written function as a not licensed toolbox function due to the same name. If a user does not have the corresponding toolbox, finding the offending function is very tedious.

[Steven Lord]

Do you have any suggestions for anything our documentation staff could do to increase the discoverability of this information? I don't find it by searching; I go to the Support section of the site and look down about an inch (on my laptop's screen) to the list of areas in Help Center. The first is Documentation, followed by Examples, Functions, Blocks, Apps, Videos, and Answers.

Once I've selected Functions I either click on a category in the main frame of Help Center or (if I know I'm looking for a function or functionality in a particular product) I switch from the category view to the product view using the links in the left frame.

Is there some other sequence of steps that seems like a more intuitive way to access this information to you?

[Jan]

I assume that finding these lists is a rare problem and no improvements are required.

But MathWorks could integrate such a list in a tool, which find name conflicts with all toolboxes, even the ones, which are not installed. This is implemented at least partially already in the license check: If a folder contains a function, whose name belongs to a not licensed (and not installed) toolbox, the access to the complete folder is blocked and the user has to find out, which function is responsible. There have been about 20 corresponding questions in this forum.

Maybe I should send an enhancement request.