From 9f4c64d5c2019944e22a637ab041e0d8cd46e517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Baltzell <baltzell@jlab.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:33:23 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] make option parser more accessible

---
 .../src/main/java/org/jlab/clas/reco/EngineProcessor.java  | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/common-tools/clas-reco/src/main/java/org/jlab/clas/reco/EngineProcessor.java b/common-tools/clas-reco/src/main/java/org/jlab/clas/reco/EngineProcessor.java
index 5f17e9b6d4..28142bc2a8 100644
--- a/common-tools/clas-reco/src/main/java/org/jlab/clas/reco/EngineProcessor.java
+++ b/common-tools/clas-reco/src/main/java/org/jlab/clas/reco/EngineProcessor.java
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ public void show(){
         }
     }
 
-    public static void main(String[] args){
+    protected static OptionParser getParser() {
         OptionParser parser = new OptionParser("recon-util");
         parser.addRequired("-o","output.hipo");
         parser.addRequired("-i","input.evio/hipo");
@@ -386,7 +386,12 @@ public static void main(String[] args){
         parser.addOption("-P",null,"preload file for post-processing");
         parser.addOption("-R","0","rebuild scalers");
         parser.addOption("-H","0","restream helicity");
+        return parser;
+    }
+
+    public static void main(String[] args){
 
+        OptionParser parser = EngineProcessor.getParser();
         parser.parse(args);
         parser.syncLogLevel(LOGGER);