README.md

# options.js #

A very light-weight in-code option parsers for node.js.

## Usage ##

``` js
var Options = require("options");

// Create an Options object
function foo(options) {
        var default_options = {
                foo : "bar"
        };
        
        // Create an option object with default value
        var opts = new Options(default_options);
        
        // Merge options
        opts = opts.merge(options);
        
        // Reset to default value
        opts.reset();
        
        // Copy selected attributes out
        var seled_att = opts.copy("foo");
        
        // Read json options from a file. 
        opts.read("options.file"); // Sync
        opts.read("options.file", function(err){ // Async
                if(err){ // If error occurs
                        console.log("File error.");
                }else{
                        // No error
                }
        });
        
        // Attributes defined or not
        opts.isDefinedAndNonNull("foobar");
        opts.isDefined("foobar");
}

```


## License ##

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2012 Einar Otto Stangvik <einaros@gmail.com>

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