#include <balcl_optioninfo.h>

Public Types
enum	ArgType { e_FLAG = 0, e_OPTION = 1, e_NON_OPTION = 2 }
	Enumerate the categories of command-line arguments. More...
Public Attributes
bsl::string	d_tag
bsl::string	d_name
bsl::string	d_description
TypeInfo	d_typeInfo
OccurrenceInfo	d_defaultInfo

Detailed Description

This struct is a simple attribute class that describes the information associated with an option, namely the associated tag (as a string, from which the short and long tags are extracted), the option name, the description used in printing usage, and optional associated TypeInfo and OccurrenceInfo objects.

By design, this struct does not have any user-defined constructors, so there is no provision for passing an allocator to its data members (all of which take an allocator). Consequently, all instances of this class use the default allocator. If proper allocator propagation is desired (e.g., for storage within an allocator-aware container for which the use of the default allocator is counter-indicated), one may use Option, which is both allocator-aware and constructible from OptionInfo.

The main purpose of this struct is to provide a type whose values can be statically-initialized. For example:

      const balcl::OptionInfo OPTIONS[] = {
         {
           "s|longTag",                        // s(hortTag)
           "optionName",
           "option description",
           balcl::TypeInfo(/* . . . */),       // optional
           balcl::OccurrenceInfo(/* . . . */)  // optional
         },
         // ...
      };

Note that each of the first three fields can be default-constructed, and thus omitted in such a declaration; however, such an object will be of limited use because, to avoid undefined behavior, the constructor of balcl::CommandLine requires that each of these fields be acceptable to the isDescriptionValid, isNameValid, and isTagValid methods of balcl::Option. The default string value is not acceptable to any of those methods. See the Usage section for an example of such initialization.

See Component balcl_optioninfo