Package jline

Class ArgumentCompletor

java.lang.Object

jline.ArgumentCompletor

All Implemented Interfaces:

Completor

public class ArgumentCompletor
extends java.lang.Object
implements Completor

A Completor implementation that invokes a child completor using the appropriate separator argument. This can be used instead of the individual completors having to know about argument parsing semantics.

Example 1: Any argument of the command line can use file completion.

        consoleReader.addCompletor (new ArgumentCompletor (
                new FileNameCompletor ()))
  

Example 2: The first argument of the command line can be completed with any of "foo", "bar", or "baz", and remaining arguments can be completed with a file name.

        consoleReader.addCompletor (new ArgumentCompletor (
                new SimpleCompletor (new String [] { "foo", "bar", "baz"})));
        consoleReader.addCompletor (new ArgumentCompletor (
                new FileNameCompletor ()));
  

When the argument index is past the last embedded completors, the last completors is always used. To disable this behavior, have the last completor be a NullCompletor. For example:

        consoleReader.addCompletor (new ArgumentCompletor (
                new SimpleCompletor (new String [] { "foo", "bar", "baz"}),
                new SimpleCompletor (new String [] { "xxx", "yyy", "xxx"}),
                new NullCompletor
                ));
        

TODO: handle argument quoting and escape characters

Author:

Marc Prud'hommeaux

Nested Class Summary

Nested Classes

Modifier and Type	Class	Description
static class	ArgumentCompletor.AbstractArgumentDelimiter	Abstract implementation of a delimiter that uses the ArgumentCompletor.AbstractArgumentDelimiter.isDelimiter(java.lang.String, int) method to determine if a particular character should be used as a delimiter.
static interface	ArgumentCompletor.ArgumentDelimiter	The ArgumentCompletor.ArgumentDelimiter allows custom breaking up of a String into individual arguments in order to dispatch the arguments to the nested Completor.
static class	ArgumentCompletor.ArgumentList	The result of a delimited buffer.
static class	ArgumentCompletor.WhitespaceArgumentDelimiter	ArgumentCompletor.ArgumentDelimiter implementation that counts all whitespace (as reported by Character.isWhitespace(char)) as being a delimiter.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ArgumentCompletor(java.util.List completors)	Constuctor: create a new completor with the default argument separator of " ".
ArgumentCompletor(Completor completor)	Constuctor: create a new completor with the default argument separator of " ".
ArgumentCompletor(Completor[] completors)	Constuctor: create a new completor with the default argument separator of " ".
ArgumentCompletor(Completor[] completors, ArgumentCompletor.ArgumentDelimiter delim)	Constuctor: create a new completor with the specified argument delimiter.
ArgumentCompletor(Completor completor, ArgumentCompletor.ArgumentDelimiter delim)	Constuctor: create a new completor with the specified argument delimiter.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
int	complete(java.lang.String buffer, int cursor, java.util.List candidates)	Populates candidates with a list of possible completions for the buffer.
boolean	getStrict()	Returns whether a completion at argument index N will succees if all the completions from arguments 0-(N-1) also succeed.
void	setStrict(boolean strict)	If true, a completion at argument index N will only succeed if all the completions from 0-(N-1) also succeed.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ArgumentCompletor

public ArgumentCompletor(Completor completor)

Constuctor: create a new completor with the default argument separator of " ".

Parameters:

completor - the embedded completor

ArgumentCompletor

public ArgumentCompletor(java.util.List completors)

Constuctor: create a new completor with the default argument separator of " ".

Parameters:

completors - the List of completors to use

ArgumentCompletor

public ArgumentCompletor(Completor[] completors)

Constuctor: create a new completor with the default argument separator of " ".

Parameters:

completors - the embedded argument completors

ArgumentCompletor

public ArgumentCompletor(Completor completor,
                         ArgumentCompletor.ArgumentDelimiter delim)

Constuctor: create a new completor with the specified argument delimiter.

Parameters:

completor - the embedded completor

delim - the delimiter for parsing arguments

ArgumentCompletor

public ArgumentCompletor(Completor[] completors,
                         ArgumentCompletor.ArgumentDelimiter delim)

Constuctor: create a new completor with the specified argument delimiter.

Parameters:

completors - the embedded completors

delim - the delimiter for parsing arguments

Method Detail

setStrict

public void setStrict(boolean strict)

If true, a completion at argument index N will only succeed if all the completions from 0-(N-1) also succeed.

getStrict

public boolean getStrict()

Returns whether a completion at argument index N will succees if all the completions from arguments 0-(N-1) also succeed.

complete

public int complete(java.lang.String buffer,
                    int cursor,
                    java.util.List candidates)

Description copied from interface: Completor

Populates candidates with a list of possible completions for the buffer. The candidates list will not be sorted before being displayed to the user: thus, the complete method should sort the List before returning.

Specified by:

complete in interface Completor

Parameters:

buffer - the buffer

candidates - the List of candidates to populate

Returns:

the index of the buffer for which the completion will be relative