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Posted to dev@commons.apache.org by Emmanuel Bourg <eb...@apache.org> on 2008/08/01 14:45:02 UTC
Re: [CLI] recent changes to PosixParser
Russel Winder a écrit :
> The recent commits to the CLI code has removed the silent absorbing of
> unknown single letter options by the PosixParser which is good. Also
> the really bizarre behaviour with single hyphen, multicharacter options
> by the PosixParser has been removed, which is good. However with the
> second of these the hyphen gets removed which is not true of the
> BasicParser or GnuParser. Should all three behave the same?
I documented the difference in CLI
> Unfortunately, the changes have extended other bizarre behaviours of the
> PosixParser. In particular, I am finding that I am getting a response
> of '--' from the PosixParser.getOptionValue in situations where I didn't
> used to. The new situation is more consistent than it was in that this
> used to happen for long option but not for short options. Of course the
> new situation means that a case that used to work now does not.
>
> I will try and work out a proper unit test.
If you don't have the time to work on a complete unit test just give me
an example, I'll write the test.
Emmanuel Bourg
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