src/main/java/com/google/devtools/common/options/OptionPriority.java

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package com.google.devtools.common.options;

/**
 * The priority of option values, in order of increasing priority.
 *
 * <p>In general, new values for options can only override values with a lower or
 * equal priority. Option values provided in annotations in an options class are
 * implicitly at the priority {@code DEFAULT}.
 *
 * <p>The ordering of the priorities is the source-code order. This is consistent
 * with the automatically generated {@code compareTo} method as specified by the
 * Java Language Specification. DO NOT change the source-code order of these
 * values, or you will break code that relies on the ordering.
 */
public enum OptionPriority {

  /**
   * The priority of values specified in the {@link Option} annotation. This
   * should never be specified in calls to {@link OptionsParser#parse}.
   */
  DEFAULT,

  /**
   * Overrides default options at runtime, while still allowing the values to be
   * overridden manually.
   */
  COMPUTED_DEFAULT,

  /**
   * For options coming from a configuration file or rc file.
   */
  RC_FILE,

  /**
   * For options coming from the command line.
   */
  COMMAND_LINE,

  /**
   * For options coming from invocation policy.
   */
  INVOCATION_POLICY,

  /**
   * This priority can be used to unconditionally override any user-provided options.
   * This should be used rarely and with caution!
   */
  SOFTWARE_REQUIREMENT;
}