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Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor Class Reference

Class that helps parse command line input arguments from (argc,argv[]) and set options. More...

#include <Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp>

Classes

class  HelpPrinted
 Thrown if –help was specified and throwExceptions==true. More...
 
class  ParseError
 Thrown if a parse std::exception occurs and throwExceptions==true. More...
 
class  TimeMonitorSurrogate
 Interface by which CommandLineProcessor may use TimeMonitor. More...
 
class  UnrecognizedOption
 Thrown if an unrecognized option was found and throwExceptions==true. More...
 

Public Types

Public types
enum  EParseCommandLineReturn { PARSE_SUCCESSFUL = 0, PARSE_HELP_PRINTED = 1, PARSE_UNRECOGNIZED_OPTION = 2, PARSE_ERROR = 3 }
 Return value for CommandLineProcessor::parse(). Note: These enums are all given non-negative values since they are designed to be returned from main(). More...
 

Public Member Functions

Constructors
 CommandLineProcessor (bool throwExceptions=true, bool recogniseAllOptions=true, bool addOutputSetupOptions=false)
 Default Constructor. More...
 
 ~CommandLineProcessor ()
 Destructor. More...
 
Behavior modes
void throwExceptions (const bool &throwExceptions)
 Set if an std::exception is thrown, there is a parse error, or help is printed. More...
 
bool throwExceptions () const
 Returns true if an std::exception is thrown, there is a parse error, or help is printed. More...
 
void recogniseAllOptions (const bool &recogniseAllOptions)
 Set if all options must be recognized or not. More...
 
bool recogniseAllOptions () const
 Returns true if all options must be recognized by the parser. More...
 
void addOutputSetupOptions (const bool &addOutputSetupOptions)
 Set if options will be automatically added to setup Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream(). More...
 
bool addOutputSetupOptions () const
 Returns true options will be automatically added to setup Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream(). More...
 
Set up options
void setDocString (const char doc_string[])
 Set a documentation sting for the entire program printed when –help is specified. More...
 
void setOption (const char option_true[], const char option_false[], bool *option_val, const char documentation[]=NULL)
 Set a boolean option. More...
 
void setOption (const char option_name[], int *option_val, const char documentation[]=NULL, const bool required=false)
 Set an integer option. More...
 
void setOption (const char option_name[], long int *option_val, const char documentation[]=NULL, const bool required=false)
 Set a long integer option. More...
 
void setOption (const char option_name[], size_t *option_val, const char documentation[]=NULL, const bool required=false)
 Set a size_t option. More...
 
void setOption (const char option_name[], long long int *option_val, const char documentation[]=NULL, const bool required=false)
 Set a long long integer option. More...
 
void setOption (const char option_name[], double *option_val, const char documentation[]=NULL, const bool required=false)
 Set a floating-point option. More...
 
void setOption (const char option_name[], float *option_val, const char documentation[]=NULL, const bool required=false)
 Set a floating-point option. More...
 
void setOption (const char option_name[], std::string *option_val, const char documentation[]=NULL, const bool required=false)
 Set a std::string option. More...
 
template<class EType >
void setOption (const char enum_option_name[], EType *enum_option_val, const int num_enum_opt_values, const EType enum_opt_values[], const char *const enum_opt_names[], const char documentation[]=nullptr, const bool required=false)
 Set an enumeration option (templated by enumeration type). More...
 
Parse
EParseCommandLineReturn parse (int argc, char *argv[], std::ostream *errout=&std::cerr) const
 Parse a command line. More...
 
Miscellaneous
void printHelpMessage (const char program_name[], std::ostream &out) const
 Print the help message. More...
 
void printFinalTimerSummary (const Ptr< std::ostream > &out=null)
 Call to print timers so that they don't get printed in the destructor. More...
 

Related Functions

(Note that these are not member functions.)

void setVerbosityLevelOption (const std::string &optionName, EVerbosityLevel *verbLevel, const std::string &docString, CommandLineProcessor *clp, const bool required=false)
 Set a verbosity level parameter on a CommandLineProcessor object.. More...
 

Detailed Description

Class that helps parse command line input arguments from (argc,argv[]) and set options.

This class will process command-line arguments in the form of (argc,argv[]) and set user-defined options. This class can also work in a number of modes. This processor can require that all options be recognized or not.

This class object will also setup the behavior of Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream() if this->addOutputSetupOptions()==true

Warning, the option –show-timer-summary is only enabled if the subpackage TeuchosComm is enabled!

Examples:
ArrayRCP_test.cpp, CommandLineProcessor/cxx_main.cpp, FancyOutputting_test.cpp, and test/MemoryManagement/RCP_test.cpp.

Definition at line 44 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

Member Enumeration Documentation

Return value for CommandLineProcessor::parse(). Note: These enums are all given non-negative values since they are designed to be returned from main().

Enumerator
PARSE_SUCCESSFUL 

Parsing the command line was successful.

PARSE_HELP_PRINTED 

The help statement was printed for the command line parser.

PARSE_UNRECOGNIZED_OPTION 

The command line parser encountered an unrecognized option.

PARSE_ERROR 

The command line parser encountered an error.

Definition at line 66 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::CommandLineProcessor ( bool  throwExceptions = true,
bool  recogniseAllOptions = true,
bool  addOutputSetupOptions = false 
)

Default Constructor.

Parameters
throwExceptions[in] If true then this->parse() will throw exceptions instead of returning !=PARSE_SUCCESSFUL.
recogniseAllOptions[in] If true then this->parse() will return the appropriate error for any option it does not recognize. If false, then this->parse() will simply ignore options that it does not recognize. However, a warning will be printed for any unrecognized option, but no errors will be returned.
addOutputSetupOptions[in] If true then options will be automatically added to setup Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream().

Definition at line 66 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::~CommandLineProcessor ( )

Destructor.

Definition at line 87 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

Member Function Documentation

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::throwExceptions ( const bool &  throwExceptions)
inline

Set if an std::exception is thrown, there is a parse error, or help is printed.

Examples:
CommandLineProcessor/cxx_main.cpp.

Definition at line 661 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

bool Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::throwExceptions ( ) const
inline

Returns true if an std::exception is thrown, there is a parse error, or help is printed.

Definition at line 666 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::recogniseAllOptions ( const bool &  recogniseAllOptions)
inline

Set if all options must be recognized or not.

Examples:
CommandLineProcessor/cxx_main.cpp.

Definition at line 671 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

bool Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::recogniseAllOptions ( ) const
inline

Returns true if all options must be recognized by the parser.

Definition at line 676 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::addOutputSetupOptions ( const bool &  addOutputSetupOptions)
inline

Set if options will be automatically added to setup Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream().

Definition at line 681 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

bool Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::addOutputSetupOptions ( ) const
inline

Returns true options will be automatically added to setup Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream().

Definition at line 686 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setDocString ( const char  doc_string[])

Set a documentation sting for the entire program printed when –help is specified.

Examples:
CommandLineProcessor/cxx_main.cpp.

Definition at line 96 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  option_true[],
const char  option_false[],
bool *  option_val,
const char  documentation[] = NULL 
)

Set a boolean option.

Parameters
option_true[in] (null terminated std::string) If this option is found then *option_val = true will be set.
option_false[in] (null terminated std::string) If this option is found then *option_val = false will be set.
option_val[in/out] On input, *option_val gives the default value of the option (used for printing in –help). On output, will be set according to (argc,argv[]).
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this null terminated std::string gives the documentation for the option.
Examples:
CommandLineProcessor/cxx_main.cpp.

Definition at line 102 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  option_name[],
int *  option_val,
const char  documentation[] = NULL,
const bool  required = false 
)

Set an integer option.

Parameters
option_name[in] (null terminated std::string) The name of the option (without the leading '–' or trailing '=').
option_val[in/out] On input, *option_val gives the default value of the option (used for printing in –help). On output, will be set according to (argc,argv[]).
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this null terminated std::string gives the documentation for the option.

Definition at line 122 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  option_name[],
long int *  option_val,
const char  documentation[] = NULL,
const bool  required = false 
)

Set a long integer option.

Parameters
option_name[in] (null terminated std::string) The name of the option (without the leading '–' or trailing '=').
option_val[in/out] On input, *option_val gives the default value of the option (used for printing in –help). On output, will be set according to (argc,argv[]).
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this null terminated std::string gives the documentation for the option.

Definition at line 140 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  option_name[],
size_t *  option_val,
const char  documentation[] = NULL,
const bool  required = false 
)

Set a size_t option.

Parameters
option_name[in] (null terminated std::string) The name of the option (without the leading '–' or trailing '=').
option_val[in/out] On input, *option_val gives the default value of the option (used for printing in –help). On output, will be set according to (argc,argv[]).
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this null terminated std::string gives the documentation for the option.

Definition at line 158 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  option_name[],
long long int *  option_val,
const char  documentation[] = NULL,
const bool  required = false 
)

Set a long long integer option.

Parameters
option_name[in] (null terminated std::string) The name of the option (without the leading '–' or trailing '=').
option_val[in/out] On input, *option_val gives the default value of the option (used for printing in –help). On output, will be set according to (argc,argv[]).
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this null terminated std::string gives the documentation for the option.

Definition at line 175 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  option_name[],
double *  option_val,
const char  documentation[] = NULL,
const bool  required = false 
)

Set a floating-point option.

Parameters
option_name[in] (null terminated std::string) The name of the option (without the leading '–' or trailing '=').
option_val[in/out] On input, *option_val gives the default value of the option (used for printing in –help). On output, will be set according to (argc,argv[]).
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this null terminated std::string gives the documentation for the option.

Definition at line 192 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  option_name[],
float *  option_val,
const char  documentation[] = NULL,
const bool  required = false 
)

Set a floating-point option.

Parameters
option_name[in] (null terminated std::string) The name of the option (without the leading '–' or trailing '=').
option_val[in/out] On input, *option_val gives the default value of the option (used for printing in –help). On output, will be set according to (argc,argv[]).
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this null terminated std::string gives the documentation for the option.

Definition at line 209 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  option_name[],
std::string *  option_val,
const char  documentation[] = NULL,
const bool  required = false 
)

Set a std::string option.

Parameters
option_name[in] (null terminated std::string) The name of the option (without the leading '–' or trailing '=').
option_val[in/out] On input, *option_val gives the default value of the option (used for printing in –help). On output, will be set according to (argc,argv[]).
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this null terminated std::string gives the documentation for the option.

Definition at line 226 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

template<class EType >
void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::setOption ( const char  enum_option_name[],
EType enum_option_val,
const int  num_enum_opt_values,
const EType  enum_opt_values[],
const char *const  enum_opt_names[],
const char  documentation[] = nullptr,
const bool  required = false 
)
inline

Set an enumeration option (templated by enumeration type).

Parameters
enum_option_name[in] (null terminated std::string) The name of the option (without the leading '–' or trailing '=').
enum_option_val[in/out] On input, *enum_option_val gives the default value of the enumeration (used for printing in –help). After parse() finishes executing successfully, *enum_option_val will contain the user-selected value of the enumeration.
num_enum_opt_values[in] Gives the number of possible option values to select
enum_opt_values[in] Array (length num_enum_opt_values) that gives the numeric values for each option. The values in this array are used to set the actual option *enum_option_val.
enum_opt_names[in] Array (length num_enum_opt_values) that gives the char string names for each option. The strings in this function are what is used in the commandline.
documentation[in] If !=NULL, then this array of null-terminated char string gives the documentation for the option.

Warning! Only use an enum or int for EType. Using any other type for EType could be trouble!

Definition at line 692 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.hpp.

CommandLineProcessor::EParseCommandLineReturn Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::parse ( int  argc,
char *  argv[],
std::ostream *  errout = &std::cerr 
) const

Parse a command line.

Parameters
argc[in] number of entries in argv[]
argv[in/out] array (length argc) of command line arguments. argv[0] should be the name of the program on the shell as usual.
errout[out] If !=NULL then error and help messages are sent here. The default is set to &std::cerr.

Postconditions:

  • If an unrecognized option is found
    • If this->recogniseAllOptions()==true
      • An error message will be printed to *errout and parsing will stop as follows:
      • If this->throwExceptions()==true
      • else
        • This method will return PARSE_UNRECOGNIZED_OPTION
      • endif
    • else
      • A warning message will be printed to *errout and parsing will continue
    • endif
  • else if the option –help is found
    • If this->throwExceptions()==true
    • else
      • This method will return PARSE_HELP_PRINTED
    • endif
  • else
    • This method will return PARSE_SUCCESSFUL
  • endif

Note that if the option –pause-for-debugging is present, then std::string Type 0 and press enter to continue : will be printed to standard error (std::cerr) and execution will be suspended until the user enters any non-null character(s). This option is designed to make it easier to attach a debugger, especially in a parallel MPI program. If HAVE_MPI is defined, then output/input is only performed with the process with rank 0 and then MPI calls insure that all processors wait (using MPI_Barrier(MPI_COMM_WORLD)) until the user has entered something. This allows the user to attach a debugger to one or more parallel MPI processes and set breakpoints before execution resumes. Note that the stream *errout is not used for this output/input but instead std::cerr is directly used.

If Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream().get()!=NULL and this->addOutputSetupOptions(), then any of the default setup options for Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream() that are set on the commandline will be set on Teuchos::VerboseObjectBase::getDefaultOStream().

Examples:
CommandLineProcessor/cxx_main.cpp.

Definition at line 248 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::printHelpMessage ( const char  program_name[],
std::ostream &  out 
) const

Print the help message.

Parameters
out[in/out] The stream the documentation will be printed to.

This will print a formatted set of documentation that shows what options are set, what their default values are and any user-supplied documentation about each option.

Examples:
CommandLineProcessor/cxx_main.cpp.

Definition at line 404 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

void Teuchos::CommandLineProcessor::printFinalTimerSummary ( const Ptr< std::ostream > &  out = null)

Call to print timers so that they don't get printed in the destructor.

Calling this function after the first call has no effect.

Definition at line 573 of file Teuchos_CommandLineProcessor.cpp.

Friends And Related Function Documentation

void setVerbosityLevelOption ( const std::string &  optionName,
EVerbosityLevel verbLevel,
const std::string &  docString,
CommandLineProcessor clp,
const bool  required = false 
)
related

Set a verbosity level parameter on a CommandLineProcessor object..


The documentation for this class was generated from the following files: