These changes look great. Thanks!

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Jinmei Liao <jil...@pivotal.io> wrote:

> In the effort of adding option validation to gfsh commands (GEODE-1597) and
> simplifying gfsh parsing, I started this exercise of only using
> SpringShell's parser instead of a combination of springshell's,
> joptsimple's and our own parsers. The end result is a lot more manageable
> code base,  and the capability to validate the option list, but does have
> these following different behaviors, and I would like the community's wight
> in on whether or not these are acceptable or not:
>
> 1) SpringShell doesn't allow you to specify an option twice, so for
> multivalued parameters, our old parser can accept command like
>
> "change loglevel --member=member1 --member=member2",
>
> but now the parser will give you an error, and you should only do
> "change loglevel --member=member1,member2".
>
> The new parser did something speical for --J option though, so for --J, you
> can specify it multiple times.
> 2) For value separator, springShell default's to ",", you can only
> overwrite it with option context "splittingRegex", we do not honor the
> @CliMetaData(valueSepartor=) anymore. All of our commands uses "," for
> separators, so this won't break our commands, but if there is any command
> out there that would define a different @CliMetaData(valueSepartor=) other
> than ",", SpringShell would not know how to parse it.
> 3) To specify empty string as parameter value, before you will need to do
>
> put region=A key="''" value="''"
>
> spring shell would think the value you are trying to pass in are two single
> quotes instead of empty strings, now, you should only do
>
> put region=A key="" value=""
>
> Cheers
>
> Jinmei
>

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