## Copyright (C) 2016-2017 Francesco Faccio <francesco.faccio@mail.polimi.it>
##
## This file is part of Octave.
##
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function options = odemergeopts (caller, useroptions, options, classes,
                                 attributes);

  for [value, key] = options;

    if (isfield (useroptions, key) && ! isempty (useroptions.(key)))

      if (! strcmp (classes.(key), "char"))
        validateattributes (useroptions.(key), classes.(key),
                            attributes.(key), caller, key);

      elseif (ischar (useroptions.(key)))
        validatestring (useroptions.(key), attributes.(key), caller, key);

      else
        error ("Octave:invalid-input-arg",
               [caller ": invalid value assigned to field '%s'"], key);
      endif

      options.(key) = useroptions.(key);

    endif

  endfor

endfunction