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[platform/upstream/glib.git] / glib / goption.h
1 /* goption.h - Option parser
2  *
3  *  Copyright (C) 2004  Anders Carlsson <andersca@gnome.org>
4  *
5  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6  * modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public
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9  *
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19  */
20
21 #ifndef __G_OPTION_H__
22 #define __G_OPTION_H__
23
24 #include <glib/gerror.h>
25 #include <glib/gquark.h>
26
27 G_BEGIN_DECLS
28
29 typedef struct _GOptionContext GOptionContext;
30 typedef struct _GOptionGroup   GOptionGroup;
31 typedef struct _GOptionEntry   GOptionEntry;
32
33 typedef enum
34 {
35   G_OPTION_FLAG_HIDDEN          = 1 << 0,
36   G_OPTION_FLAG_IN_MAIN         = 1 << 1,
37   G_OPTION_FLAG_REVERSE         = 1 << 2,
38   G_OPTION_FLAG_NO_ARG          = 1 << 3,
39   G_OPTION_FLAG_FILENAME        = 1 << 4,
40   G_OPTION_FLAG_OPTIONAL_ARG    = 1 << 5,
41   G_OPTION_FLAG_NOALIAS         = 1 << 6
42 } GOptionFlags;
43
44 typedef enum
45 {
46   G_OPTION_ARG_NONE,
47   G_OPTION_ARG_STRING,
48   G_OPTION_ARG_INT,
49   G_OPTION_ARG_CALLBACK,
50   G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME,
51   G_OPTION_ARG_STRING_ARRAY,
52   G_OPTION_ARG_FILENAME_ARRAY
53 } GOptionArg;
54
55 typedef gboolean (*GOptionArgFunc) (const gchar    *option_name,
56                                     const gchar    *value,
57                                     gpointer        data,
58                                     GError        **error);
59
60 typedef gboolean (*GOptionParseFunc) (GOptionContext *context,
61                                       GOptionGroup   *group,
62                                       gpointer        data,
63                                       GError        **error);
64
65 typedef void (*GOptionErrorFunc) (GOptionContext *context,
66                                   GOptionGroup   *group,
67                                   gpointer        data,
68                                   GError        **error);
69
70 #define G_OPTION_ERROR (g_option_error_quark ())
71
72 typedef enum
73 {
74   G_OPTION_ERROR_UNKNOWN_OPTION,
75   G_OPTION_ERROR_BAD_VALUE,
76   G_OPTION_ERROR_FAILED
77 } GOptionError;
78
79 GQuark g_option_error_quark (void);
80
81
82 struct _GOptionEntry
83 {
84   const gchar *long_name;
85   gchar        short_name;
86   gint         flags;
87
88   GOptionArg   arg;
89   gpointer     arg_data;
90   
91   const gchar *description;
92   const gchar *arg_description;
93 };
94
95 #define G_OPTION_REMAINING ""
96
97 GOptionContext *g_option_context_new              (const gchar         *parameter_string);
98 void            g_option_context_free             (GOptionContext      *context);
99 void            g_option_context_set_help_enabled (GOptionContext      *context,
100                                                    gboolean             help_enabled);
101 gboolean        g_option_context_get_help_enabled (GOptionContext      *context);
102 void            g_option_context_set_ignore_unknown_options (GOptionContext *context,
103                                                              gboolean        ignore_unknown);
104 gboolean        g_option_context_get_ignore_unknown_options (GOptionContext *context);
105
106 void            g_option_context_add_main_entries (GOptionContext      *context,
107                                                    const GOptionEntry  *entries,
108                                                    const gchar         *translation_domain);
109 gboolean        g_option_context_parse            (GOptionContext      *context,
110                                                    gint                *argc,
111                                                    gchar             ***argv,
112                                                    GError             **error);
113
114 void          g_option_context_add_group      (GOptionContext *context,
115                                                GOptionGroup   *group);
116 void          g_option_context_set_main_group (GOptionContext *context,
117                                                GOptionGroup   *group);
118 GOptionGroup *g_option_context_get_main_group (GOptionContext *context);
119
120
121 GOptionGroup *g_option_group_new                    (const gchar        *name,
122                                                      const gchar        *description,
123                                                      const gchar        *help_description,
124                                                      gpointer            user_data,
125                                                      GDestroyNotify      destroy);
126 void          g_option_group_set_parse_hooks        (GOptionGroup       *group,
127                                                      GOptionParseFunc    pre_parse_func,
128                                                      GOptionParseFunc    post_parse_func);
129 void          g_option_group_set_error_hook         (GOptionGroup       *group,
130                                                      GOptionErrorFunc    error_func);
131 void          g_option_group_free                   (GOptionGroup       *group);
132 void          g_option_group_add_entries            (GOptionGroup       *group,
133                                                      const GOptionEntry *entries);
134 void          g_option_group_set_translate_func     (GOptionGroup       *group,
135                                                      GTranslateFunc      func,
136                                                      gpointer            data,
137                                                      GDestroyNotify      destroy_notify);
138 void          g_option_group_set_translation_domain (GOptionGroup       *group,
139                                                      const gchar        *domain);
140
141
142 G_END_DECLS
143
144 #endif /* __G_OPTION_H__ */