Can we suggest improvements to the Spring help capabilities? The Spring community tends to be very responsive to good suggestions.
-- Mike Stolz Principal Engineer - Gemfire Product Manager Mobile: 631-835-4771 On Nov 4, 2016 8:27 AM, "Jinmei Liao" <jil...@pivotal.io> wrote: > We have several jira issues related to gfsh parsing (GEODE-1598, > GEODE-1912). After spending some time understanding how the parsing works, > I found out we have three components intertwined together all trying to do > parsing: Gfsh, JoptSimple and Spring Shell. I started an experiment by > getting rid of Gfsh and JoptSimple parsing and only using Spring Shell. The > outcome is I am able to maintain the current parsing and tabbing completion > capabilities (and fix a few bugs) by removing 40+ files. The only > difference I see so far lies in the help and hint messages. It seems the > main reason we are using these home backed Gfsh parsing is to provide more > readable help messages. Below are the differences: > > Using Spring Shell's provided help: > > Using Gfsh Parsing with JoptSimple: > > > > I do like the outcome of the latter, but added complexity of the code is > too expensive to bear. So I am asking the community how important it is to > maintain the current style of help? Can we do with the cheaper way by just > using whatever provided by the libraries? > > -- > Cheers > > Jinmei >
