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Henri Yandell commented on CLI-13:
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On the suggestion, API changes should be avoided in CLI1 - better to look at
CLI2 and consider them there.
If an easy change, then querying commandLine might be worth a look, but
probably not.
Unit test and fix patch applied. Thanks Brian! Great to have movement in CLI
again.
> [cli] CommandLine.getOptionValue() behaves contrary to docs
> -----------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: CLI-13
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-13
> Project: Commons CLI
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: CLI-1.x
> Affects Versions: 1.0
> Environment: Operating System: Linux
> Platform: PC
> Reporter: C Rose
> Fix For: 1.1
>
> Attachments: CL13.patch
>
>
> Hi
> If I have:
> final String debugOpt = "debug";
> Option debug = OptionBuilder
> .withArgName(debugOpt)
> .withDescription("turn on debugging")
> .withLongOpt(debugOpt)
> .create('d');
> and then later I do:
> String dbg = commandLine.getOptionValue(debugOpt);
> then dbg will be null. Instead, I have to use getOptionValue('d'). This seems
> contrary to the docs (see bottom of
> http://jakarta.apache.org/commons/cli/usage.html), which implies that I should
> be able to query the commandLine object using a full string, rather than just
> the string's first character.
> Can I suggest that the API of OptionBuilder be made clearer so that it is
> obvious that you can have long and short option names---perhaps make the
> create() method take no arguments (thus forcing long and short arg names to be
> set explicitly). (Also, there seems to be some confusion between the terms
> 'argument' and 'option' in the API, but perhaps that is just me).
> Also, I would hop to be able to query commandLine by either a single char or
> an
> entire string, as suggested by the docs.
> Thanks,
> Chris
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