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package org.apache.commons.cli;

/**
 * Validates an Option string.
 *
 * @author John Keyes ( john at integralsource.com )
 */
public class OptionValidator {

    /**
     * Validates whether opt is a permissable Option
     * shortOpt.  The rules that specify if the opt
     * is valid are:
     * 
     *  opt is not NULL
     *  a single character opt that is either
     *  ' '(special case), '?', '@' or a letter
     *  a multi character opt that only contains
     *  letters.
     * 
     *
     * @param opt The option string to validate
     * @throws IllegalArgumentException if the Option is not valid.
     */
    static void validateOption(String opt)
                        throws IllegalArgumentException
    {
        // check that opt is not NULL
        if (opt == null)
        {
            return;
        }

        // handle the single character opt
        else if (opt.length() == 1)
        {
            char ch = opt.charAt(0);

            if (!isValidOpt(ch))
            {
                throw new IllegalArgumentException("illegal option value '" + ch
                                                   + "'");
            }
        }

        // handle the multi character opt
        else
        {
            char[] chars = opt.toCharArray();

            for (int i = 0; i < chars.length; i++)
            {
                if (!isValidChar(chars[i]))
                {
                    throw new IllegalArgumentException(
                            "opt contains illegal character value '" + chars[i]
                            + "'");
                }
            }
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns whether the specified character is a valid Option.
     *
     * @param c the option to validate
     * @return true if c is a letter, ' ', '?' or '@', 
     * otherwise false.
     */
    private static boolean isValidOpt(char c)
    {
        return (isValidChar(c) || (c == ' ') || (c == '?') || c == '@');
    }

    /**
     * Returns whether the specified character is a valid character.
     *
     * @param c the character to validate
     * @return true if c is a letter.
     */
    private static boolean isValidChar(char c)
    {
        return Character.isJavaIdentifierPart(c);
    }
}