/**
* Returns the positional argument at the specified position where argPosition starts at 1
*
* @param argPosition the integer position of the positional argument to find
* @return the positional argument with the specified position, position starts at index 1
*/
public PositionalArgument getPositionalArgument(int argPosition) {
PositionalArgument returnArg = null;
for (int i = 0; i < positionalArgumentList.size(); i++) {
PositionalArgument currentArg = positionalArgumentList.get(i);
if (currentArg.getPosition() == argPosition - 1) {
returnArg = currentArg;
}
}
return returnArg;
}
/**
* Writes argument parser information to the specified XML file. The program name, program
* description, positional arguments, and named arguments are saved in the file in standard XML
* format. It also saves each aspect of the arguments such as argument name, description,
* dataType, defaultValue, and possible value set.
*
* @param fileName the XML file to which all information will be written
*/
public void writeToXMLFile(String fileName) {
File outputFile = new File(fileName);
try {
PrintWriter outputFileWriter = new PrintWriter(outputFile);
outputFileWriter.println("<?xml version=" + "\"1.0\"?>");
outputFileWriter.println("<program>");
outputFileWriter.println("<name>" + getProgramName() + "</name>");
outputFileWriter.println("<description>" + getProgramDescription() + "</description>");
outputFileWriter.println("<arguments>");
for (int i = 0; i < positionalArgumentList.size(); i++) {
PositionalArgument posArg = positionalArgumentList.get(i);
outputFileWriter.println("<positional>");
outputFileWriter.println("<name>" + posArg.getName() + "</name>");
outputFileWriter.println("<type>" + posArg.getType() + "</type>");
outputFileWriter.println("<description>" + posArg.getDescription() + "</description>");
outputFileWriter.println(
"<position>"
+ (posArg.getPosition() + 1)
+ "</position>"); // prints position starting at 1
String[] valueSet = posArg.getValueSet();
if (!valueSet[0].equals("")) {
String line = "<valueset>";
line += valueSet[0];
for (int j = 1; j < valueSet.length; j++) {
line += "," + valueSet[j];
}
line += "</valueset>";
outputFileWriter.println(line);
}
// outputFileWriter.println(line);
outputFileWriter.println("</positional>");
}
for (int j = 0; j < namedArgumentList.size(); j++) {
NamedArgument namedArg = namedArgumentList.get(j);
outputFileWriter.println("<named>");
outputFileWriter.println("<name>" + namedArg.getName() + "</name>");
outputFileWriter.println("<shortname>" + namedArg.getShortFormName() + "</shortname>");
outputFileWriter.println("<type>" + namedArg.getType() + "</type>");
outputFileWriter.println("<description>" + namedArg.getDescription() + "</description>");
outputFileWriter.println("<default>" + namedArg.getDefaultValue() + "</default>");
String[] valueSet = namedArg.getValueSet();
if (!valueSet[0].equals("")) {
String line = "<valueset>";
line += valueSet[0];
for (int k = 1; k < valueSet.length; k++) {
line += "," + valueSet[k];
}
line += "</valueset>";
outputFileWriter.println(line);
}
outputFileWriter.println("</named>");
}
outputFileWriter.println("</arguments>");
outputFileWriter.println("</program>");
outputFileWriter.close();
} catch (Exception e) {
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}