Module com.github.rvesse.airline

Package com.github.rvesse.airline.help

Interface CommandUsageGenerator

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractCommandUsageGenerator, AbstractPrintedCommandUsageGenerator, CliCommandUsageGenerator, HtmlCommandUsageGenerator, ManCommandUsageGenerator, MarkdownCommandUsageGenerator

public interface CommandUsageGenerator

Interface implemented by classes that can generate usage documentation for a command

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
<T> void	usage(CommandMetadata command, ParserMetadata<T> parserConfig, java.io.OutputStream output)	Generates the help output to the provided output stream
<T> void	usage(java.lang.String programName, java.lang.String[] groupNames, java.lang.String commandName, CommandMetadata command, ParserMetadata<T> parserConfig)	Generate the help and output it on standard out
<T> void	usage(java.lang.String programName, java.lang.String[] groupNames, java.lang.String commandName, CommandMetadata command, ParserMetadata<T> parserConfig, java.io.OutputStream output)	Generate the help and output it to the stream

Method Detail

usage

<T> void usage(CommandMetadata command,
               ParserMetadata<T> parserConfig,
               java.io.OutputStream output)
        throws java.io.IOException

Generates the help output to the provided output stream

Parameters:

command - Command Metadata

parserConfig - Parser configuration

output - Output Stream

Throws:

java.io.IOException

usage

<T> void usage(java.lang.String programName,
               java.lang.String[] groupNames,
               java.lang.String commandName,
               CommandMetadata command,
               ParserMetadata<T> parserConfig)
        throws java.io.IOException

Generate the help and output it on standard out

Type Parameters:

T - Command type

Parameters:

programName - Program Name

groupNames - Group Name(s)

commandName - Command Name

command - Command Metadata

parserConfig - Parser configuration, if null is passed then the parser configuration is automatically determined based on the command class for which we are producing help

Throws:

java.io.IOException - Thrown if there is a problem generating usage output

usage

<T> void usage(java.lang.String programName,
               java.lang.String[] groupNames,
               java.lang.String commandName,
               CommandMetadata command,
               ParserMetadata<T> parserConfig,
               java.io.OutputStream output)
        throws java.io.IOException

Generate the help and output it to the stream

Type Parameters:

T - Command type

Parameters:

programName - Program Name

groupNames - Group Name(s)

commandName - Command Name

command - Command Metadata

parserConfig - Parser Configuration, if null is passed then the parser configuration is automatically determined based on the command class for which we are producing help

output - Stream to output to

Throws:

java.io.IOException - Thrown if there is a problem generating usage output