edu.rice.cs.drjava.config
Class FileOption

java.lang.Object
  edu.rice.cs.drjava.config.OptionParser<T>
      edu.rice.cs.drjava.config.Option<File>
          edu.rice.cs.drjava.config.FileOption

All Implemented Interfaces:

FormatStrategy<File>, ParseStrategy<File>

public class FileOption
extends Option<File>

Class representing all configuration options with values of type File.

Version:

$Id: FileOption.java 4419 2008-03-27 06:58:07Z rcartwright $

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class edu.rice.cs.drjava.config.OptionParser

defaultValue, name

Constructor Summary

FileOption(String key, File def)

Method Summary

String	format(File f) Formats a statically typed T value as a String.
File	parse(String s) The ability to parse a string to an object of type T.

Methods inherited from class edu.rice.cs.drjava.config.Option

getDefaultString

Methods inherited from class edu.rice.cs.drjava.config.OptionParser

getDefault, getName, toString

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

FileOption

public FileOption(String key,
                  File def)

Parameters:

key - The name of this option.

Method Detail

parse

public File parse(String s)

Description copied from class: OptionParser

The ability to parse a string to an object of type T. All concrete versions of this class must override this method to provide some sort of parser implementation.

Specified by:

parse in interface ParseStrategy<File>

Specified by:

parse in class OptionParser<File>

Parameters:

s - The String to be parsed, must represent a legal file path for the File to be created.

Returns:

The absolute File object corresponding to the input path string.

format

public String format(File f)

Description copied from class: Option

Formats a statically typed T value as a String. The default implementation uses the toString() method.

Specified by:

format in interface FormatStrategy<File>

Overrides:

format in class Option<File>

Parameters:

f - The instance of class File to be formatted.

Returns:

A String representing the absolute path of "f".