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Replace @Optional with @OptArg or similar

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Refactor
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
cli

Research direction

Start by locating the @Optional annotation and its usages in the Intake codebase, then review how command arguments and annotation references are exposed. Determine the replacement name and the affected references; done means the naming conflict is resolved consistently without ambiguity.

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Description

Currently if using the @Optional annotation to specify an optional argument, within a class file also using the JDK Optional class, or the Guava Optional class you're forced to use the expanded type name so as to specify which Optional you're referring to.

To resolve this naming conflict, I suggest making the @Optional annotation an @OptArg annotation or similar.

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Java
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