Re: [codec] RE: Base64.java

2003-02-04 Thread Martin Redington
Hi all, personally I favour Ryan's suggestion of setting flags (and/or system properties) separately to obtain non-RFC compliant behaviour (or to specify which RFC to follow, where they conflict), or to specify that exceptions should be raised when encountering a non-Base64 char, rather

Re: [cli] API change

2002-11-19 Thread Martin Redington
In my own CLI-like library, I've occasionally found it useful to be able to hack the command line slightly, before passing it to the interrogation phase. For example, where a parameter two's default value depends on parameter one's value, but I don't want to over-write the user's input if

[cli] Suggestions

2002-11-14 Thread Martin Redington
I've just been writing my own Command Line Parsing library, when duh! I looked to see what was out there, and came across commons-cli. Its quite interesting to see the similarities between my implementation and commons-cli I have an Options type class as my main entry point, and posix

Fwd: [CLI] Suggestions

2002-11-14 Thread Martin Redington
I've just been writing my own Command Line Parsing library, when duh! I looked to see what was out there, and came across commons-cli. Its quite interesting to see the similarities between my implementation and commons-cli I have an Options type class as my main entry point, and posix

Re: [cli] Suggestions

2002-11-14 Thread Martin Redington
Hi John, thanks for your reply, Check out this unit test which shows how to use typed options: http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-commons/cli/src/test/org/ apache/commons/cli/PatternOptionBuilderTest.java?rev=1.6content- type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup 2. Options can have a long name

Re: [cli] Suggestions

2002-11-14 Thread Martin Redington
Hi John, On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 11:47 PM, John Keyes wrote: 3. Sets of options can be read from and written to properties files. No support for this. I have a TODO for myself (I must document it) to have an XML reader and writer for configuring an Options instance. I will