All Classes

Class	Description
AbstractCommandSpecProcessor	Abstract annotation processor for @picocli.* annotations that produces a set of CommandLine.Model.CommandSpec objects built from the annotated source code.
AbstractCommandSpecProcessor.Context
AbstractCommandSpecProcessor.Graph	Helper class for topologically sorting ArgGroups.
AbstractCommandSpecProcessor.NullFactory
AbstractCompositeGeneratorProcessor	Base class for writing annotation processors that do something with CommandSpec models.
AbstractGenerator
AnnotatedElementHolder	Implementation of the CommandLine.Model.IGetter and CommandLine.Model.ISetter interface that allows custom CommandSpec annotation processors to inspect ArgSpec objects to discover what program element was annotated with @Option or @Parameters.
AnnotationValidator
Assert	Utility class providing some defensive coding convenience methods.
AutoComplete	Stand-alone tool that generates bash auto-complete scripts for picocli-based command line applications.
AutoComplete.App	CLI command class for generating completion script.
AutoComplete.Bashify	Drops all characters that are not valid for bash function and identifier names.
AutoComplete.BooleanArgFilter
AutoComplete.CommandDescriptor
AutoComplete.Function<T,V>
AutoComplete.GenerateCompletion	Command that generates a Bash/ZSH completion script for its top-level command.
AutoComplete.NullFunction
AutoComplete.Predicate<T>
CommandLine	CommandLine interpreter that uses reflection to initialize an annotated user object with values obtained from the command line arguments.
CommandLine.AbbreviationMatcher
CommandLine.AbstractHandler<R,T extends CommandLine.AbstractHandler<R,T>>	Deprecated. see CommandLine.execute(String...)
CommandLine.AbstractParseResultHandler<R>	Deprecated. see CommandLine.execute(String...), CommandLine.getExecutionStrategy(), CommandLine.getParameterExceptionHandler(), CommandLine.getExecutionExceptionHandler()
CommandLine.ArgGroup	A Command may define one or more ArgGroups: a group of options, positional parameters or a mixture of the two.
CommandLine.Assert	Utility class providing some defensive coding convenience methods.
CommandLine.AutoHelpMixin
CommandLine.BuiltIn	Inner class to group the built-in CommandLine.ITypeConverter implementations.
CommandLine.BuiltIn.BigDecimalConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.BigIntegerConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.BooleanConverter	Converts "true" or "false" to a Boolean.
CommandLine.BuiltIn.ByteConverter	Converts text to a Byte by delegating to Byte.valueOf(String).
CommandLine.BuiltIn.ByteOrderConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.CharacterConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.CharArrayConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.CharSequenceConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.CharsetConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.ClassConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.CurrencyConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.DoubleConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.FileConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.FloatConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.InetAddressConverter	Converts text to a InetAddress by delegating to InetAddress.getByName(String).
CommandLine.BuiltIn.IntegerConverter	Converts text to an Integer by delegating to Integer.valueOf(String).
CommandLine.BuiltIn.ISO8601DateConverter	Converts text in yyyy-mm-dd format to a java.util.Date.
CommandLine.BuiltIn.ISO8601TimeConverter	Converts text in any of the following formats to a java.sql.Time: HH:mm, HH:mm:ss, HH:mm:ss.SSS, HH:mm:ss,SSS.
CommandLine.BuiltIn.LongConverter	Converts text to a Long by delegating to Long.valueOf(String).
CommandLine.BuiltIn.NetworkInterfaceConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.PatternConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.ReflectionConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.ShortConverter	Converts text to a Short by delegating to Short.valueOf(String).
CommandLine.BuiltIn.StringBuilderConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.StringConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.TimeZoneConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.URIConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.URLConverter
CommandLine.BuiltIn.UUIDConverter
CommandLine.ColoredStackTraceWriter	Extends StringWriter to use ColorScheme.
CommandLine.Command	Annotate your class with @Command when you want more control over the format of the generated help message.
CommandLine.CosineSimilarity	Uses cosine similarity to find matches from a candidate set for a specified input.
CommandLine.DefaultExceptionHandler<R>	Deprecated. see CommandLine.execute(String...), CommandLine.getParameterExceptionHandler() and CommandLine.getExecutionExceptionHandler()
CommandLine.DefaultFactory
CommandLine.DefaultHelpFactory
CommandLine.DuplicateNameException	Exception indicating that multiple named elements have incorrectly used the same name.
CommandLine.DuplicateOptionAnnotationsException	Exception indicating that multiple fields have been annotated with the same Option name.
CommandLine.ExecutionException	Exception indicating a problem while invoking a command or subcommand.
CommandLine.ExitCode	Defines some exit codes used by picocli as default return values from the execute and executeHelpRequest methods.
CommandLine.Help	A collection of methods and inner classes that provide fine-grained control over the contents and layout of the usage help message to display to end users when help is requested or invalid input values were specified.
CommandLine.Help.Ansi	Provides methods and inner classes to support using ANSI escape codes in usage help messages.
CommandLine.Help.Ansi.IStyle	Defines the interface for an ANSI escape sequence.
CommandLine.Help.Ansi.Palette256Color	Defines a palette map of 216 colors: 6 * 6 * 6 cube (216 colors): 16 + 36 * r + 6 * g + b (0 <= r, g, b <= 5).
CommandLine.Help.Ansi.Style	A set of pre-defined ANSI escape code styles and colors, and a set of convenience methods for parsing text with embedded markup style names, as well as convenience methods for converting styles to strings with embedded escape codes.
CommandLine.Help.Ansi.StyledSection
CommandLine.Help.ColorScheme	All usage help message are generated with a color scheme that assigns certain styles and colors to common parts of a usage message: the command name, options, positional parameters and option parameters.
CommandLine.Help.ColorScheme.Builder	Builder class to create ColorScheme instances.
CommandLine.Help.Column	Columns define the width, indent (leading number of spaces in a column before the value) and Overflow policy of a column in a TextTable.
CommandLine.Help.Column.Overflow	Policy for handling text that is longer than the column width: span multiple columns, wrap to the next row, or simply truncate the portion that doesn't fit.
CommandLine.Help.DefaultOptionRenderer	The DefaultOptionRenderer converts Options to five columns of text to match the default TextTable column layout.
CommandLine.Help.DefaultParameterRenderer	The DefaultParameterRenderer converts positional parameters to five columns of text to match the default TextTable column layout.
CommandLine.Help.DefaultParamLabelRenderer	DefaultParamLabelRenderer separates option parameters from their option names with a separator string, and, unless CommandLine.Model.ArgSpec.hideParamSyntax() is true, surrounds optional values with '[' and ']' characters and uses ellipses ("...") to indicate that any number of values is allowed for options or parameters with variable arity.
CommandLine.Help.IOptionRenderer	When customizing online help for Option details, a custom IOptionRenderer can be used to create textual representation of an Option in a tabular format: one or more rows, each containing one or more columns.
CommandLine.Help.IParameterRenderer	When customizing online help for positional parameters details, a custom IParameterRenderer can be used to create textual representation of a Parameters field in a tabular format: one or more rows, each containing one or more columns.
CommandLine.Help.IParamLabelRenderer	When customizing online usage help for an option parameter or a positional parameter, a custom IParamLabelRenderer can be used to render the parameter name or label to a String.
CommandLine.Help.Layout	Use a Layout to format usage help text for options and parameters in tabular format.
CommandLine.Help.MinimalOptionRenderer	The MinimalOptionRenderer converts Options to a single row with two columns of text: an option name and a description.
CommandLine.Help.MinimalParameterRenderer	The MinimalParameterRenderer converts positional parameters to a single row with two columns of text: the parameters label and a description.
CommandLine.Help.ShortestFirst	Sorts short strings before longer strings.
CommandLine.Help.SortByOptionArityAndNameAlphabetically	Sorts OptionSpec instances by their max arity first, then their min arity, then delegates to super class.
CommandLine.Help.SortByOrder<T extends CommandLine.Model.IOrdered>
CommandLine.Help.SortByShortestOptionNameAlphabetically	Sorts OptionSpec instances by their name in case-insensitive alphabetic order.
CommandLine.Help.TextTable	Responsible for spacing out CommandLine.Help.Ansi.Text values according to the CommandLine.Help.Column definitions the table was created with.
CommandLine.Help.TextTable.Cell	Helper class to index positions in a Help.TextTable.
CommandLine.Help.TextTable.Count
CommandLine.Help.Visibility	Controls the visibility of certain aspects of the usage help message.
CommandLine.HelpCommand	Help command that can be installed as a subcommand on all application commands.
CommandLine.IDefaultValueProvider	Provides default value for a command.
CommandLine.IExceptionHandler	Deprecated. see CommandLine.execute(String...), CommandLine.IParameterExceptionHandler and CommandLine.IExecutionExceptionHandler
CommandLine.IExceptionHandler2<R>	Deprecated. see CommandLine.execute(String...), CommandLine.IParameterExceptionHandler and CommandLine.IExecutionExceptionHandler
CommandLine.IExecutionExceptionHandler	Classes implementing this interface know how to handle Exceptions that occurred while executing the Runnable, Callable or Method user object of the command.
CommandLine.IExecutionStrategy	Implementations are responsible for "executing" the user input and returning an exit code.
CommandLine.IExitCodeExceptionMapper	Interface that provides the appropriate exit code that will be returned from the execute method for an exception that occurred during parsing or while invoking the command's Runnable, Callable, or Method.
CommandLine.IExitCodeGenerator	@Command-annotated classes can implement this interface to specify an exit code that will be returned from the execute method when the command is successfully invoked.
CommandLine.IFactory	Factory for instantiating classes that are registered declaratively with annotation attributes, like CommandLine.Command.subcommands(), CommandLine.Option.converter(), CommandLine.Parameters.converter() and CommandLine.Command.versionProvider().
CommandLine.IHelpCommandInitializable	Deprecated. use CommandLine.IHelpCommandInitializable2 instead
CommandLine.IHelpCommandInitializable2	Help commands that provide usage help for other commands can implement this interface to be initialized with the information they need.
CommandLine.IHelpFactory	Creates the CommandLine.Help instance used to render the usage help message.
CommandLine.IHelpSectionRenderer	Renders a section of the usage help message.
CommandLine.IModelTransformer	Provides a way to modify how the command model is built.
CommandLine.INegatableOptionTransformer	Determines the option name transformation of negatable boolean options.
CommandLine.InitializationException	Exception indicating a problem during CommandLine initialization.
CommandLine.IParameterConsumer	Options or positional parameters can be assigned a IParameterConsumer that implements custom logic to process the parameters for this option or this position.
CommandLine.IParameterExceptionHandler	Classes implementing this interface know how to handle ParameterExceptions (usually from invalid user input).
CommandLine.IParameterPreprocessor	Options, positional parameters and commands can be assigned a IParameterPreprocessor that implements custom logic to preprocess the parameters for this option, position or command.
CommandLine.IParseResultHandler	Deprecated. Use CommandLine.IExecutionStrategy instead.
CommandLine.IParseResultHandler2<R>	Deprecated. use CommandLine.IExecutionStrategy instead, see CommandLine.execute(String...)
CommandLine.ITypeConverter<K>	When parsing command line arguments and initializing fields annotated with @Option or @Parameters, String values can be converted to any type for which a ITypeConverter is registered.
CommandLine.IVersionProvider	Provides version information for a command.
CommandLine.LookBehind
CommandLine.MaxValuesExceededException	Exception indicating that more values were specified for an option or parameter than its arity allows.
CommandLine.MissingParameterException	Exception indicating that a required parameter was not specified.
CommandLine.MissingTypeConverterException	Exception indicating that an annotated field had a type for which no CommandLine.ITypeConverter was registered.
CommandLine.Mixin	Fields annotated with @Mixin are "expanded" into the current command: @Option and @Parameters in the mixin class are added to the options and positional parameters of this command.
CommandLine.Model	This class provides a namespace for classes and interfaces that model concepts and attributes of command line interfaces in picocli.
CommandLine.Model.ArgGroupSpec	The ArgGroupSpec class models a group of arguments (options, positional parameters or a mixture of the two).
CommandLine.Model.ArgGroupSpec.Builder	Builder responsible for creating valid ArgGroupSpec objects.
CommandLine.Model.ArgSpec	Models the shared attributes of CommandLine.Model.OptionSpec and CommandLine.Model.PositionalParamSpec.
CommandLine.Model.ArgSpec.Builder<T extends CommandLine.Model.ArgSpec.Builder<T>>
CommandLine.Model.CaseAwareLinkedMap<K,V>	This class provides a case-aware Linked HashMap.
CommandLine.Model.CommandReflection
CommandLine.Model.CommandSpec	The CommandSpec class models a command specification, including the options, positional parameters and subcommands supported by the command, as well as attributes for the version help message and the usage help message of the command.
CommandLine.Model.CommandUserObject
CommandLine.Model.FieldBinding
CommandLine.Model.IAnnotatedElement	Internal interface to allow annotation processors to construct a command model at compile time.
CommandLine.Model.IExtensible	Interface to allow extending the capabilities of other interface without Java 8 default methods.
CommandLine.Model.IGetter	Customizable getter for obtaining the current value of an option or positional parameter.
CommandLine.Model.InitialValueState
CommandLine.Model.Interpolator
CommandLine.Model.Interpolator.ILookup
CommandLine.Model.IOrdered	Interface for sorting options and groups together.
CommandLine.Model.IScope	The scope of a getter/setter binding is the context where the current value should be gotten from or set to.
CommandLine.Model.ISetter	Customizable setter for modifying the value of an option or positional parameter.
CommandLine.Model.ITypeInfo	Encapculates type information for an option or parameter to make this information available both at runtime and at compile time (when Class values are not available).
CommandLine.Model.Messages	Utility class for getting resource bundle strings.
CommandLine.Model.MethodBinding
CommandLine.Model.MethodParam	Command method parameter, similar to java.lang.reflect.Parameter (not available before Java 8).
CommandLine.Model.ObjectBinding
CommandLine.Model.ObjectScope
CommandLine.Model.OptionSpec	The OptionSpec class models aspects of a named option of a command, including whether it is required or optional, the option parameters supported (or required) by the option, and attributes for the usage help message describing the option.
CommandLine.Model.OptionSpec.Builder	Builder responsible for creating valid OptionSpec objects.
CommandLine.Model.ParserSpec	Models parser configuration specification.
CommandLine.Model.PicocliInvocationHandler
CommandLine.Model.PositionalParamSpec	The PositionalParamSpec class models aspects of a positional parameter of a command, including whether it is required or optional, and attributes for the usage help message describing the positional parameter.
CommandLine.Model.PositionalParamSpec.Builder	Builder responsible for creating valid PositionalParamSpec objects.
CommandLine.Model.Predicate<T>
CommandLine.Model.RuntimeTypeInfo
CommandLine.Model.TypedMember
CommandLine.Model.UnmatchedArgsBinding	This class allows applications to specify a custom binding that will be invoked for unmatched arguments.
CommandLine.Model.UsageMessageSpec	Models the usage help message specification and can be used to customize the usage help message.
CommandLine.MutuallyExclusiveArgsException	Exception indicating that the user input included multiple arguments from a mutually exclusive group.
CommandLine.NoCompletionCandidates
CommandLine.NoDefaultProvider
CommandLine.NoOpModelTransformer
CommandLine.NoOpParameterPreprocessor
CommandLine.NoVersionProvider
CommandLine.NullParameterConsumer
CommandLine.Option	Annotate fields in your class with @Option and picocli will initialize these fields when matching arguments are specified on the command line.
CommandLine.OverwrittenOptionException	Exception indicating that an option for a single-value option field has been specified multiple times on the command line.
CommandLine.ParameterException	Exception indicating something went wrong while parsing command line options.
CommandLine.ParameterIndexGapException	Exception indicating that there was a gap in the indices of the fields annotated with CommandLine.Parameters.
CommandLine.Parameters	Fields annotated with @Parameters will be initialized with positional parameters.
CommandLine.ParentCommand	Fields annotated with @ParentCommand will be initialized with the parent command of the current subcommand.
CommandLine.ParseResult	Encapsulates the result of parsing an array of command line arguments.
CommandLine.ParseResult.Builder	Builds immutable ParseResult instances.
CommandLine.ParseResult.GroupMatch	A group's multiplicity specifies how many matches of a group may appear on the command line.
CommandLine.ParseResult.GroupMatchContainer	Provides information about an CommandLine.ArgGroup that was matched on the command line.
CommandLine.ParseResult.GroupValidationResult
CommandLine.ParseResult.GroupValidationResult.Type
CommandLine.PicocliException	Base class of all exceptions thrown by picocli.CommandLine.
CommandLine.PositionalParametersSorter
CommandLine.PropertiesDefaultProvider	IDefaultValueProvider implementation that loads default values for command line options and positional parameters from a properties file or Properties object.
CommandLine.Range	Describes the number of parameters required and accepted by an option or a positional parameter.
CommandLine.RegexTransformer	A regular expression-based option name transformation for negatable options.
CommandLine.RegexTransformer.Builder	Builder for creating RegexTransformer objects.
CommandLine.RunAll	Command line execution strategy that prints help if requested, and otherwise executes the top-level command and all subcommands as Runnable, Callable or Method.
CommandLine.RunFirst	Command line execution strategy that prints help if requested, and otherwise executes the top-level Runnable or Callable command.
CommandLine.RunLast	Command line execution strategy that prints help if requested, and otherwise executes the most specific Runnable or Callable subcommand.
CommandLine.ScopeType	Specifies the scope of the element.
CommandLine.Spec	Fields annotated with @Spec will be initialized with the CommandSpec for the command the field is part of.
CommandLine.Spec.Target	Identifies what kind of CommandSpec should be injected.
CommandLine.TraceLevel
CommandLine.Tracer
CommandLine.TypeConversionException	Exception thrown by CommandLine.ITypeConverter implementations to indicate a String could not be converted.
CommandLine.Unmatched	Fields annotated with @Unmatched will be initialized with the list of unmatched command line arguments, if any.
CommandLine.UnmatchedArgumentException	Exception indicating that a command line argument could not be mapped to any of the fields annotated with CommandLine.Option or CommandLine.Parameters.
CompileTimeTypeInfo
CompletionCandidatesMetaData	Implementation of the Iterable interface that provides metadata on the @Command(completionCandidates = xxx.class) annotation.
DefaultValueProviderMetaData	Implementation of the CommandLine.IDefaultValueProvider interface that provides metadata on the @Command(defaultValueProvider = xxx.class) annotation.
DynamicProxyConfigGenerator	DynamicProxyConfigGenerator generates a JSON String with the fully qualified interface names for which dynamic proxy classes should be generated at native image build time.
DynamicProxyConfigGenerator.App
DynamicProxyConfigGenerator.Visitor
IGenerator
ITypeMetaData	Abstraction over annotation attributes that take a class (or array of classes) as their value.
JniConfigGenerator
JniConfigGenerator.App
JulLogFormatter
ManPageGenerator	Generates AsciiDoc files in a special format that can be converted to HTML, PDF and Unix Man pages.
ManPageGenerator.App
ManPageGenerator.Config
ManPageGenerator.ShortestFirst	Sorts short strings before longer strings.
ManPageGenerator.SortByOrder<T extends CommandLine.Model.IOrdered>
ManPageGenerator.SortByShortestOptionNameAlphabetically	Sorts OptionSpec instances by their name in case-insensitive alphabetic order.
MixinInfo	Holds information on the `@Mixin`-annotated program element.
NativeImageConfigGeneratorProcessor
OutputFileMixin
ParameterConsumerMetaData	Implementation of the CommandLine.IParameterConsumer interface that provides metadata on the @Option(parameterConsumer = xxx.class) annotation.
PicocliCommands	Compiles SystemCompleter for command completion and implements a method commandDescription() that provides command descriptions for JLine TailTipWidgets to be displayed in terminal status bar.
PicocliCommands.ClearScreen	Command that clears the screen.
PicocliCommands.PicocliCommandsFactory	Command factory that is necessary for applications that want the use the ClearScreen subcommand.
PicocliJLineCompleter	Implementation of the JLine 2 Completer interface that generates completion candidates for the specified command line based on the CommandLine.Model.CommandSpec that this PicocliJLineCompleter was constructed with.
PicocliJLineCompleter	Implementation of the JLine 3 Completer interface that generates completion candidates for the specified command line based on the CommandLine.Model.CommandSpec that this PicocliJLineCompleter was constructed with.
ProcessorUtil
ProxyConfigGen
ReflectConfigGen
ReflectionConfigGenerator	ReflectionConfigGenerator generates a JSON String with the program elements that will be accessed reflectively in a picocli-based application, in order to compile this application ahead-of-time into a native executable with GraalVM.
ReflectionConfigGenerator.App
ReflectionConfigGenerator.ReflectedClass
ReflectionConfigGenerator.ReflectedField
ReflectionConfigGenerator.ReflectedMethod
ReflectionConfigGenerator.Visitor
ResourceConfigGen
ResourceConfigGenerator	ResourceConfigGenerator generates a JSON String with the resource bundles and other classpath resources that should be included in the Substrate VM native image.
ResourceConfigGenerator.App
ResourceConfigGenerator.Visitor
TypeConverterMetaData	Implementation of the CommandLine.ITypeConverter interface that provides metadata on the @Command(typeConverter = xxx.class) annotation.
TypedMember
TypeUtil
Util
VersionProviderMetaData	Implementation of the CommandLine.IVersionProvider interface that provides metadata on the @Command(versionProvider = xxx.class) annotation.