John, On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 22:10 +0200, John O'Sullivan wrote: > Hi russel, > Thanks for your reply, much appreciated..
No problem.
If you check the email histories, you'll probably spot that Commons CLI
is a bit of a hobby horse for me. Groovy and Gant both use it but
(unfortunately) it is very broken -- 1.0 just about works, 1.1 has a
collection of great bug fixes thanks to Hen and Brian, but is
fundamentally broken :-(, 2.x got played with and then the development
team evaporated and left the whole package in limbo.
> If I can change the date/time format to a format where it is only one
> string
> what will be java syntax for definign the option within my application
>
> e.g
> inal Option persistDataOption =
> OptionBuilder.withArgName("persist").hasOptionalArgs(3)
> hasArg().withDescription("Persist Data with Scheduling")
> .create("-p");
>
> I cant seem to get the above line correct...
>
> I want to define an option that has
> A. 3 options... name> | <Time> | <Boolean
> B. 1 Mandatory ... name
> C. 2 optional params Time , Boolean
>
> Can you help me define this option correctly first, then I can move on
> and
> worry about the Date/Time being 2 strings
To be honest I don't think I would even try and attempt using Commons
CLI or any other CLI package to handle the parsing of the option itself.
I would use the options system to get a simple string and then process
that string with a data parser, probably JodaTime until JSR 310 becomes
standard.
So accept "-p" as a simple option with a single string parameter and
then when you find you have one drag up the data processing actions and
handle things then.
--
Russel.
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