OptionHandler.java

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package vm.share.options;

/**
 * Handles options not specified via @Options annotations,
 * implemented and provided by the user.
 */
public interface OptionHandler
{
        /**
         * This method is called for every unknown option
         * @param name option name (not including '-' or '=', trimmed)
         * @param value may be null in the case of the last option with no value
         * specified.
         */
        public void option(String name, String value);

        /**
         * This method is called for every command line argument which
         * is not recognized as a part of -option_name=value pair.
         * @param value the value of an unrecognized argument
         */
        public void argument(String value);
}