How to have Options with OR relations between 2 arguments

Question

I have a very basic question, below is my Options class. I need to establish an OR relation between j and f flags i.e anyone should be mandatory to be passed.

        [Option('j', "jsonfile", Required = true, HelpText = "Path to json file")]
        public string JsonFilePath { get; set; }

        [Option('f', "jsonfolder", Required = true, HelpText = "Path to json directory")]
        public string JsonFolder { get; set; }

        [Option('t', "targetpath", Required = true, HelpText = "Target folder")]
        public string TargetFolder { get; set; }

Here what I need is, if j is not passed in the argument then f should be mandatory to pass or if f is not passed in the argument then j should be mandatory to pass. How can I achieve this ?

Is that [System.CommandLine](https://github.com/dotnet/command-line-api)? — ProgrammingLlama, Aug 24 '21 at 09:02
its CommandLineParser https://github.com/commandlineparser/commandline. But if you know how to achive that in System.CommandLine, I can try it. — Saddam Hussain I H, Aug 24 '21 at 09:04
I don't know the solution, but I've added the appropriate tag to your question for you. — ProgrammingLlama, Aug 24 '21 at 09:11

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 24 '21 at 10:10

Looks like Group does the trick for you.

        [Option('j', "jsonfile", Group= "json", HelpText = "Path to json file")]
        public string JsonFilePath { get; set; }

        [Option('f', "jsonfolder", Group= "json", HelpText = "Path to json directory")]
        public string JsonFolder { get; set; }

        [Option('t', "targetpath", Required = true, HelpText = "Target folder")]
        public string TargetFolder { get; set; }

How to have Options with OR relations between 2 arguments

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