Benedikt Ritter created CLI-267:
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Summary: Add an addRequiredOption method to Options
Key: CLI-267
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-267
Project: Commons CLI
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Options definition
Reporter: Benedikt Ritter
Assignee: Benedikt Ritter
Fix For: 1.4
Placeholder issue for https://github.com/apache/commons-cli/pull/7
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This pull request adds an addRequiredOption method, which creates an Option
with setRequired(true).
This is really useful, given the amount of projects I saw doing things like:
{code}
Options options = new Options();
options.addOption( "a", "all", false, "do not hide entries starting with ." );
options.addOption( "A", "almost-all", false, "do not list implied . and .." );
options.addOption( "b", "escape", false, "print octal escapes for nongraphic "
+ "characters" );
// ... more addOptions like these and then
Option stuff = new Option( "c", "stuff", true, "do not list implied . and .." );
stuff.setRequired(true);
options.addOption( stuff );
// And many more required options like this one
{code}
This pull request proposes an auxiliary method to create a required option, so
that these options could just be added with.
{code}
options.addRequiredOption( "c", "stuff", true, "do not list implied . and .." );
{code}
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