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Sruteesh Kumar Paramata edited comment on CLI-317 at 7/31/23 4:06 PM: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [~PhBastiani] Should it really throw an exception? It has to consider bar as a value for the option foo. Correct? was (Author: JIRAUSER301594): Should it really throw an exception? > NullPointerException thrown by CommandLineParser.parse() > -------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: CLI-317 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-317 > Project: Commons CLI > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Parser > Affects Versions: 1.5.0 > Reporter: Philippe Bastiani > Priority: Critical > Labels: exception > > # First at all, your *testAmbiguousLongWithoutEqualSingleDash* does not lead > to a AmbiguousOptionException > # For this same test, if I replace the deprecated OptionBuilder with > Option.Builder as follows > {code:java} > options.addOption(Option.builder().option("f").longOpt("foo").optionalArg(true).build()); > options.addOption(Option.builder().option("b").longOpt("bar").optionalArg(false).build()); > {code} > the test leads to a NPE > {code:java} > java.lang.NullPointerException > at xx.DefaultParser.handleShortAndLongOption(DefaultParser.java:476) > at xx.DefaultParser.handleToken(DefaultParser.java:535) > at xx.DefaultParser.parse(DefaultParser.java:714) > at xx.DefaultParser.parse(DefaultParser.java:677) > at xx.DefaultParser.parse(DefaultParser.java:654) > {code} > _Note_ : tested with Github code (January 22, 2023) -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.10#820010)