JAL-4353 helper method and test for primary/secondary and auxiliary arguments with...

[jalview.git] / src / jalview / bin / argparser / ArgValuesMap.java

diff --git a/src/jalview/bin/argparser/ArgValuesMap.java b/src/jalview/bin/argparser/ArgValuesMap.java
index 8a28b87..219983f 100644 (file)
--- a/src/jalview/bin/argparser/ArgValuesMap.java
+++ b/src/jalview/bin/argparser/ArgValuesMap.java
@@ -225,6 +225,25 @@ public class ArgValuesMap
     return av == null ? null : av.getValue();
   }
 
+  public List<String> getValues(Arg a)
+  {
+    return toValues(getArgValueList(a));
+  }
+
+  public static List<String> toValues(List<ArgValue> avl)
+  {
+    if (avl == null)
+    {
+      return null;
+    }
+    List<String> vl = new ArrayList<>();
+    for (ArgValue av : avl)
+    {
+      vl.add(av.getValue());
+    }
+    return vl;
+  }
+
   public boolean containsArg(Arg a)
   {
     if (m == null || !m.containsKey(a))