From 00940718072272882192541ac1f141b2497e96b1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Lwin <johnlwin@amazon.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 21:04:43 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] fix(docs): improve deprecatedTrait with default description

---
 .../amazon/smithy/typescript/codegen/TypeScriptWriter.java  | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/smithy-typescript-codegen/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/typescript/codegen/TypeScriptWriter.java b/smithy-typescript-codegen/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/typescript/codegen/TypeScriptWriter.java
index c183b7d2054..5e2ab58577b 100644
--- a/smithy-typescript-codegen/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/typescript/codegen/TypeScriptWriter.java
+++ b/smithy-typescript-codegen/src/main/java/software/amazon/smithy/typescript/codegen/TypeScriptWriter.java
@@ -225,9 +225,9 @@ boolean writeShapeDocs(Shape shape, UnaryOperator<String> preprocessor) {
                     if (shape.getTrait(DeprecatedTrait.class).isPresent()) {
                         DeprecatedTrait deprecatedTrait = shape.expectTrait(DeprecatedTrait.class);
                         String deprecationMessage = deprecatedTrait.getMessage()
-                            .map(msg -> " " + msg)
-                            .orElse("");
-                        String deprecationString = "@deprecated" + deprecationMessage;
+                            .map(msg -> " " + msg) 
+                            .orElse(" see description");
+                        String deprecationString = deprecatedTrait.getMessage().isPresent() ? "@deprecated" + deprecationMessage : "@deprecated"; 
                         docs = docs + "\n\n" + deprecationString;
                     }
                     docs = preprocessor.apply(docs);