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+/*! \file
+ * \brief
+ * Declares gmx::IOptionsContainer.
+ *
+ * \author Teemu Murtola <teemu.murtola@gmail.com>
+ * \inpublicapi
+ * \ingroup module_options
+ */
+#ifndef GMX_OPTIONS_IOPTIONSCONTAINER_H
+#define GMX_OPTIONS_IOPTIONSCONTAINER_H
+
+#include "gromacs/options/abstractoption.h"
+#include "gromacs/utility/gmxassert.h"
+
+namespace gmx
+{
+
+/*! \brief
+ * Interface for adding input options.
+ *
+ * This interface provides methods to add new options.
+ * Standard usage is for code to receive this interface and populate it with
+ * supported options:
+ * \code
+ // <as class attributes>
+ std::string arg1;
+ int arg2;
+
+ void MyClass::initOptions(gmx::IOptionsContainer *options)
+ {
+ options->addOption(gmx::StringOption("arg1").store(&arg1));
+ options->addOption(gmx::IntegerOption("arg2").store(&arg2));
+ }
+ \endcode
+ * The caller can collect options from multiple sources into a single container
+ * (a gmx::Options), and use a parser implementation such as CommandLineParser
+ * to provide values for the options.
+ *
+ * Header basicoptions.h provides declarations of several standard
+ * option types for use with addOption(). Documentation of those classes
+ * also give more examples of how to define options.
+ *
+ * \inpublicapi
+ * \ingroup module_options
+ */
+class IOptionsContainer
+{
+ public:
+ /*! \brief
+ * Adds a recognized option.
+ *
+ * \param[in] settings Option description.
+ * \returns OptionInfo object for the created option (never NULL).
+ * \throws APIError if invalid option settings are provided.
+ *
+ * This method provides the internal implementation, but in most cases
+ * the templated method is called from user code.
+ * See the templated method for more details.
+ */
+ virtual OptionInfo *addOption(const AbstractOption &settings) = 0;
+ /*! \brief
+ * Adds a recognized option.
+ *
+ * \tparam OptionType Type of the options description object.
+ * \param[in] settings Option description.
+ * \returns OptionInfo object for the created option (never NULL).
+ * \throws APIError if invalid option settings are provided.
+ *
+ * The return value is a pointer for more convenient use in callers:
+ * often callers need to declare the variable that will hold the return
+ * value in wider scope than would be achieved by declaring it at the
+ * site where addOption() is called.
+ * The returned pointer must not be freed.
+ *
+ * See \link Options class documentation \endlink for example usage.
+ *
+ * \libinternal
+ * \p OptionType::InfoType must specify a type that derives from
+ * OptionInfo and matches the type that is returned by
+ * AbstractOptionStorage::optionInfo() for the storage object that
+ * corresponds to \p OptionType.
+ */
+ template <class OptionType>
+ typename OptionType::InfoType *addOption(const OptionType &settings)
+ {
+ OptionInfo *info
+ = addOption(static_cast<const AbstractOption &>(settings));
+ GMX_ASSERT(info->isType<typename OptionType::InfoType>(),
+ "Mismatching option info type declaration and implementation");
+ return info->toType<typename OptionType::InfoType>();
+ }
+
+ protected:
+ // Disallow deletion through the interface.
+ // (no need for the virtual, but some compilers warn otherwise)
+ virtual ~IOptionsContainer();
+
+};
+
+} // namespace
+
+#endif