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| <properties> |
| <author email="dev@commons.apache.org">commons-dev</author> |
| <title>Option Properties</title> |
| </properties> |
| |
| <body> |
| <section name="Option Properties"> |
| <p> |
| The following are the properties that each |
| <a href="api-release/org/apache/commons/cli/Option.html">Option</a> has. All of these |
| can be set using the accessors or using the methods |
| defined in the |
| <a href="api-release/org/apache/commons/cli/OptionBuilder.html">OptionBuilder</a>. |
| </p> |
| <table> |
| <tr> |
| <th>Name</th> |
| <th>Type</th> |
| <th>Description</th> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>opt</td> |
| <td>java.lang.String</td> |
| <td>the identification string of the Option.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>longOpt</td> |
| <td>java.lang.String</td> |
| <td>an alias and more descriptive identification string</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>description</td> |
| <td>java.lang.String</td> |
| <td>a description of the function of the option</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>required</td> |
| <td>boolean</td> |
| <td>a flag to say whether the option <b>must</b> appear on |
| the command line.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>arg</td> |
| <td>boolean</td> |
| <td>a flag to say whether the option takes an argument</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>args</td> |
| <td>boolean</td> |
| <td>a flag to say whether the option takes more than one argument</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>optionalArg</td> |
| <td>boolean</td> |
| <td>a flag to say whether the option's argument is optional</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>argName</td> |
| <td>java.lang.String</td> |
| <td>the name of the argument value for the usage statement</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>valueSeparator</td> |
| <td>char</td> |
| <td>the character value used to split the argument string, that |
| is used in conjunction with multipleArgs e.g. |
| if the separator is ',' and the argument string is 'a,b,c' then |
| there are three argument values, 'a', 'b' and 'c'.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>type</td> |
| <td>java.lang.Object</td> |
| <td>the type of the argument</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>value</td> |
| <td>java.lang.String</td> |
| <td>the value of the option</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td>values</td> |
| <td>java.lang.String[]</td> |
| <td>the values of the option</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| </section> |
| </body> |
| </document> |
