hard ^Cded over what user said they want as instructed by management

src/main/java/gov/nasa/pds/validate/ri/AuthInformation.java

@@ -8,18 +8,21 @@
 public class AuthInformation {
   final private String apiAuthFile;
   final private String osAuthFile;
+  final private String overrideIndex;
   final private String regConn;
   private transient ConnectionFactory factory = null;
-  private AuthInformation(String a, String A, String r) {
+  private AuthInformation(String a, String A, String r, String o) {
     this.apiAuthFile = A;
     this.osAuthFile = a;
     this.regConn = r;
+    this.overrideIndex = o;
   }
   public static AuthInformation buildFrom(CommandLine cl) {
     return new AuthInformation(
         cl.getOptionValue("a",""),
         cl.getOptionValue("A",""),
-        cl.getOptionValue("r",""));
+        cl.getOptionValue("r",""),
+        cl.getOptionValue("o", "registry"));
   }
   public synchronized ConnectionFactory getConnectionFactory() throws Exception {
     if (this.factory == null) {
@@ -32,6 +35,7 @@ public synchronized ConnectionFactory getConnectionFactory() throws Exception {
       if (this.factory == null) {
         throw new IllegalArgumentException("did not supply necessary arguments on the CLI");
       }
+      if (!this.overrideIndex.isBlank()) this.factory.setIndexName(this.overrideIndex);
     }
     return this.factory;
   }

src/main/java/gov/nasa/pds/validate/ri/CommandLineInterface.java

@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ public CommandLineInterface() {
         .hasArg(true).longOpt("auth-opensearch").numberOfArgs(1).optionalArg(true).build());
     this.opts.addOption(Option.builder("h").desc("show this text and exit").hasArg(false)
         .longOpt("help").optionalArg(true).build());
+    this.opts.addOption(Option.builder("o").desc("override the index in the connection file with this value (set to '' for no override) [registry]")
+        .hasArg(true).longOpt("override-index-name").optionalArg(true).build());
     this.opts.addOption(Option.builder("r").argName("registry-connection").desc(
         "URL point to the registry connection information usually of the form app://connection/direct/localhost.xml")
         .hasArg(true).longOpt("registry-connection").numberOfArgs(1).optionalArg(true).build());