// // OptionProcessor.h // // Library: Util // Package: Options // Module: OptionProcessor // // Definition of the OptionProcessor class. // // Copyright (c) 2004-2006, Applied Informatics Software Engineering GmbH. // and Contributors. // // SPDX-License-Identifier: BSL-1.0 // #ifndef Util_OptionProcessor_INCLUDED #define Util_OptionProcessor_INCLUDED #include "Poco/Util/Util.h" #include namespace Poco { namespace Util { class OptionSet; class Util_API OptionProcessor /// An OptionProcessor is used to process the command line /// arguments of an application. /// /// The process() method takes an argument from the command line. /// If that argument starts with an option prefix, the argument /// is further processed. Otherwise, the argument is ignored and /// false is returned. The argument must match one of the options /// given in the OptionSet that is passed to the OptionProcessor /// with the constructor. If an option is part of a group, at most /// one option of the group can be passed to the OptionProcessor. /// Otherwise an IncompatibleOptionsException is thrown. /// If the same option is given multiple times, but the option /// is not repeatable, a DuplicateOptionException is thrown. /// If the option is not recognized, a UnexpectedArgumentException /// is thrown. /// If the option requires an argument, but none is given, an /// MissingArgumentException is thrown. /// If no argument is expected, but one is present, a /// UnexpectedArgumentException is thrown. /// If a partial option name is ambiguous, an AmbiguousOptionException /// is thrown. /// /// The OptionProcessor supports two modes: Unix mode and default mode. /// In Unix mode, the option prefix is a dash '-'. A dash must be followed /// by a short option name, or another dash, followed by a (partial) /// long option name. /// In default mode, the option prefix is a slash '/', followed by /// a (partial) long option name. /// If the special option '--' is encountered in Unix mode, all following /// options are ignored. /// /// Option arguments can be specified in three ways. If a Unix short option /// ("-o") is given, the argument directly follows the option name, without /// any delimiting character or space ("-ovalue"). In default option mode, or if a /// Unix long option ("--option") is given, the option argument is /// delimited from the option name with either an equal sign ('=') or /// a colon (':'), as in "--option=value" or "/option:value". Finally, /// a required option argument can be specified on the command line after the /// option, delimited with a space, as in "--option value" or "-o value". /// The latter only works for required option arguments, not optional ones. { public: OptionProcessor(const OptionSet& options); /// Creates the OptionProcessor, using the given OptionSet. ~OptionProcessor(); /// Destroys the OptionProcessor. void setUnixStyle(bool flag); /// Enables (flag == true) or disables (flag == false) Unix-style /// option processing. /// /// If Unix-style processing is enabled, options are expected to /// begin with a single or a double dash ('-' or '--', respectively). /// A single dash must be followed by a short option name. A double /// dash must be followed by a (partial) full option name. /// /// If Unix-style processing is disabled, options are expected to /// begin with a slash ('/'), followed by a (partial) full option name. bool isUnixStyle() const; /// Returns true iff Unix-style option processing is enabled. bool process(const std::string& argument, std::string& optionName, std::string& optionArg); /// Examines and processes the given command line argument. /// /// If the argument begins with an option prefix, the option is processed /// and true is returned. The full option name is stored in optionName and the /// option argument, if present, is stored in optionArg. /// /// If the option does not begin with an option prefix, false is returned. void checkRequired() const; /// Checks if all required options have been processed. /// /// Does nothing if all required options have been processed. /// Throws a MissingOptionException otherwise. private: bool processUnix(const std::string& argument, std::string& optionName, std::string& optionArg); bool processDefault(const std::string& argument, std::string& optionName, std::string& optionArg); bool processCommon(const std::string& option, bool isShort, std::string& optionName, std::string& optionArg); const OptionSet& _options; bool _unixStyle; bool _ignore; std::set _groups; std::set _specifiedOptions; std::string _deferredOption; }; // // inlines // inline bool OptionProcessor::isUnixStyle() const { return _unixStyle; } } } // namespace Poco::Util #endif // Util_OptionProcessor_INCLUDED