Moved the attributes back to being public fields so as to maintain backwards compatibility. Each one has been deprecated, with the deprecation meaning we'll move them to private scope rather than remove them.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/cli/branches/cli-1.0.x@546992 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

Author: hen

src/java/org/apache/commons/cli/HelpFormatter.java

@@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ public class HelpFormatter {
     /** default padding to the left of each line */
     public static final int DEFAULT_LEFT_PAD = 1;
 
-    /** ?? */
+    /**
+     * the number of characters of padding to be prefixed
+     * to each description line
+     */
     public static final int DEFAULT_DESC_PAD = 3;
 
     /** the string to display at the begining of the usage statement */
@@ -57,29 +60,62 @@ public class HelpFormatter {
 
     // -------------------------------------------------------------- Attributes
 
-    /** number of characters per line */
-    private int defaultWidth = DEFAULT_WIDTH;
+    /**
+     * number of characters per line
+     *
+     * @deprecated Scope will be made private for next major version
+     */
+    public int defaultWidth = DEFAULT_WIDTH;
 
-    /** amount of padding to the left of each line */
-    private int defaultLeftPad = DEFAULT_LEFT_PAD;
+    /**
+     * amount of padding to the left of each line
+     *
+     * @deprecated Scope will be made private for next major version
+     */
+    public int defaultLeftPad = DEFAULT_LEFT_PAD;
 
-    /** ?? */
-    private int defaultDescPad = DEFAULT_DESC_PAD;
+    /**
+     * the number of characters of padding to be prefixed
+     * to each description line
+     *
+     * @deprecated Scope will be made private for next major version
+     */
+    public int defaultDescPad = DEFAULT_DESC_PAD;
 
-    /** the string to display at the begining of the usage statement */
-    private String defaultSyntaxPrefix = DEFAULT_SYNTAX_PREFIX;
+    /**
+     * the string to display at the begining of the usage statement
+     *
+     * @deprecated Scope will be made private for next major version
+     */
+    public String defaultSyntaxPrefix = DEFAULT_SYNTAX_PREFIX;
 
-    /** the new line character/string ?? */
-    private String defaultNewLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");
+    /**
+     * the new line string
+     *
+     * @deprecated Scope will be made private for next major version
+     */
+    public String defaultNewLine = System.getProperty("line.separator");
 
-    /** the shortOpt prefix */
-    private String defaultOptPrefix = DEFAULT_OPT_PREFIX;
+    /**
+     * the shortOpt prefix
+     *
+     * @deprecated Scope will be made private for next major version
+     */
+    public String defaultOptPrefix = DEFAULT_OPT_PREFIX;
 
-    /** the long Opt prefix */
-    private String defaultLongOptPrefix = DEFAULT_LONG_OPT_PREFIX;
+    /**
+     * the long Opt prefix
+     *
+     * @deprecated Scope will be made private for next major version
+     */
+    public String defaultLongOptPrefix = DEFAULT_LONG_OPT_PREFIX;
 
-    /** the name of the argument */
-    private String defaultArgName = DEFAULT_ARG_NAME;
+    /**
+     * the name of the argument
+     *
+     * @deprecated Scope will be made private for next major version
+     */
+    public String defaultArgName = DEFAULT_ARG_NAME;
 
     /**
      * Sets the 'width'.