edu.tum.cs.commons.options
Annotation Type AOption

@Documented
@Retention(value=RUNTIME)
@Target(value=METHOD)
public @interface AOption

Annotation for exposing methods as command line options. This should only be used with methods taking zero or one parameters.

Version:

$Rev: 26283 $

Author:

Benjamin Hummel, $Author: juergens $

Rating:

GREEN Hash: D9BF68C91C99C85B1F1EF668BB0AAA71

Required Element Summary

String

description The description of this option used for usage messages.

Optional Element Summary

boolean	greedy If this is set to true, all non-option arguments following the annotated option are used for this option.
String	longName The optional long (i.e. multi-character) name of the option.
char	shortName The optional short (i.e. single character) name of the option.

Element Detail

description

public abstract String description

The description of this option used for usage messages.

shortName

public abstract char shortName

The optional short (i.e. single character) name of the option.

Default:

0

longName

public abstract String longName

The optional long (i.e. multi-character) name of the option.

Default:

""

greedy

public abstract boolean greedy

If this is set to true, all non-option arguments following the annotated option are used for this option. This results in multiple calls to this options setter method.

Default:

false