[jira] [Comment Edited] (CLI-217) Optional partial matching for long options

["Rubin Simons (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Rubin Simons edited comment on CLI-217 at 6/6/17 8:10 AM:
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I was wondering why this issue didn't make it into 1.4. I'm affected by this issue in combination with combined options (like described in #216). Example:

{{
Usage: foo [-c | -e | -h | -l | -s | -v] [-d]
 -c,--check     Check configuration settings.
 -d,--debug     Turn on debug messages.
 -e,--extract   Extract data from rdbms into csv files.
 -h,--help      Show this usage text.
 -l,--load      Load csv files into neo4j.
 -s,--setup     Configure settings interactively.
 -v,--version   Show the version.
}}

Specifying "-dc" passes debug and check to the application. However, specifying "-de" does not pass debug and extract to the application but is instead interpreted as a "long option", even though a single minus sign is used.




was (Author: rubin):
I was wondering why this issue didn't make it into 1.4. I'm affected by this issue in combination with combined options (like described in #216). Example:

Usage: foo [-c | -e | -h | -l | -s | -v] [-d]
 -c,--check     Check configuration settings.
 -d,--debug     Turn on debug messages.
 -e,--extract   Extract data from rdbms into csv files.
 -h,--help      Show this usage text.
 -l,--load      Load csv files into neo4j.
 -s,--setup     Configure settings interactively.
 -v,--version   Show the version.

Specifying "-dc" passes debug and check to the application. However, specifying "-de" does not pass debug and extract to the application but is instead interpreted as a "long option", even though a single minus sign is used.



> Optional partial matching for long options
> ------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CLI-217
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CLI-217
>             Project: Commons CLI
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Parser
>    Affects Versions: 1.3
>            Reporter: Emmanuel Bourg
>         Attachments: CLI-217.patch, optPartialMatch.patch
>
>
> DefaultParser support partial long options (i.e --ver matches --version if there is no ambiguity), but for some cases it might be necessary to disable this feature.



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