Commons CLI incorrectly stripping leading and trailing quotes
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Key: CLI-185
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-185
Project: Commons CLI
Issue Type: Bug
Components: CLI-1.x
Affects Versions: 1.2
Environment: Darwin dator 9.7.0 Darwin Kernel Version 9.7.0: Tue Mar
31 22:52:17 PDT 2009; root:xnu-1228.12.14~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
GNU bash, version 3.2.17(1)-release (i386-apple-darwin9.0)
and
Linux build-einarmr 2.6.9-023stab048.4-smp #1 SMP Fri Jul 11 18:50:44 MSD 2008
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
GNU bash, version 3.00.15(1)-release (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu)
Reporter: Einar M R Rosenvinge
org.apache.commons.cli.Parser.processArgs() calls
Util.stripLeadingAndTrailingQuotes() for all argument values. IMHO this is
incorrect and totally broken.
It is trivial to create a simple test for this. Output:
$ java -cp target/clitest.jar Clitest --balloo "this is a \"test\""
Value of argument balloo is 'this is a "test'.
The argument 'balloo' should indeed keep its trailing double quote. It is what
the shell gives it, so don't try to do something clever to it.
The offending code was committed here:
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=129874
and has been there for more than 6 years (!). Why was this committed in the
first place?
The fix is trivial, just get rid of Util.stripLeadingAndTrailingQuotes(), and
consequently avoid calling it from Parser.processArgs().
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