GitHub user johnma14 opened a pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3605

    KAFKA-2111: Add help arguments and required fields

    This patch addresses the less invasive standardization of command
    line arguments as an offshoot of KIP-14. The following changes have
    been addressed in this patchset:
    - Used the required() method of JOptSimple to identify required options
      for commands. Currently, an option is identified as required by
      mentioning the word REQUIRED in the description of the option.
    - Used the requiredIf() and requiredUnless() methods to capture option
      requirements which met the condition - required if/unless some other
      option is present
    - Removed calls to CommandLineUtils.checkRequiredArgs(). Since we use
      JOptSimple's required() function to mark options as required, when
      we parse the arguments using OptionParser, it automatically checks
      the required arguments in that call. So there is no need to do this
      check again externally.
    - Added a help option to all the commands that were missing it. For
      some of the commands that had the help option, included the call to
      forHelp() method to mark the option as a help option. This means that
      specifying help option on the command line will not cause parsing to
      fail because of missing required options.
    - Added try-catch statements to correctly capture OptionException. In
      the case an OptionException is caught, the command usage information
      will be printed along with the exception message. The stacktrace for
      all other exceptions will be printed to System.err. This addresses
      the issue in KAFKA-4220
    - Made some minor changes to the description text and added some more
      description for some of the options

You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:

    $ git pull https://github.com/johnma14/kafka bug/KAFKA-2111

Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:

    https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3605.patch

To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch
with (at least) the following in the commit message:

    This closes #3605
    
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commit 97061e37a2f4f4b32fb4353d0e4d8590020225c2
Author: johnma14 <mari...@us.ibm.com>
Date:   2017-06-27T23:11:46Z

    KAFKA-2111: Add help arguments and required fields
    
    This patch addresses the less invasive standardization of command
    line arguments as an offshoot of KIP-14. The following changes have
    been addressed in this patchset:
    - Used the required() method of JOptSimple to identify required options
      for commands. Currently, an option is identified as required by
      mentioning the word REQUIRED in the description of the option.
    - Used the requiredIf() and requiredUnless() methods to capture option
      requirements which met the condition - required if/unless some other
      option is present
    - Removed calls to CommandLineUtils.checkRequiredArgs(). Since we use
      JOptSimple's required() function to mark options as required, when
      we parse the arguments using OptionParser, it automatically checks
      the required arguments in that call. So there is no need to do this
      check again externally.
    - Added a help option to all the commands that were missing it. For
      some of the commands that had the help option, included the call to
      forHelp() method to mark the option as a help option. This means that
      specifying help option on the command line will not cause parsing to
      fail because of missing required options.
    - Added try-catch statements to correctly capture OptionException. In
      the case an OptionException is caught, the command usage information
      will be printed along with the exception message. The stacktrace for
      all other exceptions will be printed to System.err. This addresses
      the issue in KAFKA-4220
    - Made some minor changes to the description text and added some more
      description for some of the options

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