"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Mike Ralphson <mike.ralphson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I think we are at the point where we need to either write a > > > #@!*(!@(! command line option parser, import one, or stop writing > > > command line programs. I would certainly appreciate any opinion > > > you might have on the matter. > > > > a) is a distraction, c) is a backwards step, so maybe b) wins. > > So I looked at GNU getopt and its at least smaller than Apache > Commons, Probably the state-of-the-arg is args4j: https://args4j.dev.java.net/ It uses Java 5 annotations to setup the argument parsing: public class SampleMain { @Option(name="-r",usage="recursively run something") private boolean recursive; @Option(name="-o",usage="output to this file",metaVar="OUTPUT") private File out = new File("."); @Option(name="-str") // no usage private String str = "(default value)"; ... I'm usually not a big fan of reflection, but it may make sense to take advantage of it in a case like this, and just import args4j into our command line tools. args4j is provided under the MIT license. -- Shawn. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
