Fix clirr errors by adding old method signatures and deprecating them.

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/proper/cli/trunk@1440310 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

Author: netomi

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/Option.java

@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ public class Option implements Cloneable, Serializable
     private int numberOfArgs = UNINITIALIZED;
 
     /** the type of this Option */
-    private Class type = String.class;
+    private Class<?> type = String.class;
 
     /** the list of argument values **/
     private List<String> values = new ArrayList<String>();
@@ -188,6 +188,21 @@ public Object getType()
         return type;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Sets the type of this Option.
+     * <p>
+     * <b>Note:</b> this method is kept for binary compatibility and the
+     * input type is supposed to be a {@link Class} object. 
+     *
+     * @param type the type of this Option
+     * @deprecated since 1.3, use {@link #setType(Class)} instead
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public void setType(Object type)
+    {
+        setType((Class) type);
+    }
+
     /**
      * Sets the type of this Option.
      *

src/main/java/org/apache/commons/cli/OptionBuilder.java

@@ -280,6 +280,23 @@ public static OptionBuilder hasOptionalArgs(int numArgs)
         return instance;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * The next Option created will have a value that will be an instance
+     * of <code>type</code>.
+     * <p>
+     * <b>Note:</b> this method is kept for binary compatibility and the
+     * input type is supposed to be a {@link Class} object. 
+     *
+     * @param newType the type of the Options argument value
+     * @return the OptionBuilder instance
+     * @deprecated since 1.3, use {@link #withType(Class)} instead
+     */
+    @Deprecated
+    public static OptionBuilder withType(Object newType)
+    {
+        return withType((Class) newType);
+    }
+
     /**
      * The next Option created will have a value that will be an instance
      * of <code>type</code>.