Package org.refcodes.console

Interface Condition

All Superinterfaces:

org.refcodes.component.Resetable, Syntaxable, SyntaxUsage

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCondition, AndConditionImpl, OptionalConditionImpl, OrConditionImpl, XorConditionImpl

public interface Condition
extends Syntaxable

The Condition interface represents a node in the command line arguments syntax tree; simply extending the Syntaxable interface and adding the functionality of providing access to the added Operands (leafs). In future extensions, a Condition might provide access to the child Syntaxable elements contained in a Condition instance. As of the current findings, access to the children of the Condition node is not required and would make the interface unnecessarily complicated.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
java.util.List<? extends Operand<?>>	toOperands()	Traverses the hierarchy of Conditions and collects all therein found Operands and sub-types such as the Flag or the Option.

Methods inherited from interface org.refcodes.component.Resetable

reset

Methods inherited from interface org.refcodes.console.Syntaxable

get, parseArgs, toState, toSyntax

Methods inherited from interface org.refcodes.console.SyntaxUsage

toUsage, toUsage

Method Detail

toOperands

java.util.List<? extends Operand<?>> toOperands()

Traverses the hierarchy of Conditions and collects all therein found Operands and sub-types such as the Flag or the Option. This is most useful when creating a list of Options, Flages and Operands when printing out detailed help.

Returns:

The according Operand elements.