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Emmanuel Bourg commented on CLI-298:
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I admit I'm not seduced either by the format proposed. There is a duplication
between the options defined in the file and the options parsed in the listener.
Also, the purpose of the listener seems mostly to be to build an object model
equivalent to the command line arguments. This problem is more cleanly solved
by an annotation based approach like JCommander.
We could get some inspiration from other CLI libraries but we would probably
end up rewriting the same code. Unless we have a clever novel design idea I
don't think it's worth rewriting what others have already done.
> Define CLI options via configuration file
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> Key: CLI-298
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-298
> Project: Commons CLI
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Options definition
> Affects Versions: 1.5, Nightly Builds
> Reporter: Richard
> Priority: Minor
> Labels: newbie, pull-request-available, ready-to-commit
> Original Estimate: 336h
> Remaining Estimate: 336h
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> Create a configuration that enables users to define CLI options via a
> configuration file. Such configuration would normally pre-defined and bundled
> inside the executable jar running the application. This would reduce the
> amount of code required to define command line options and introduce the
> ability to do a lot of the checking a user does (such as converting values to
> integers, files, checking if integers are above/below a certain amount,
> checking that files or directories do/don't exist etc.) For security
> purposes, at compile time calculate an MD5 for the application, if this
> doesn't match at runtime warn of corrupted file exception. Also add I18N
> since this will be driven via the user experience for exception messages.
> So far I've catered for basic options that utilise strings.
> Code already started with a pull request at
> [https://github.com/zendawg/commons-cli] underneath the branch named
> "cli-configuration".
> Apologies in advance, never contributed to Apache SWF before.
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