[#CLI-155] Allow caller to define ordering of options in help message

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Allow caller to define ordering of options in help message

Created: 12/May/08 07:45 PM Updated: 29/May/08 01:03 PM

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Help formatter

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None

Fix Version/s:

1.2

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	File Name	Date Attached	Attached By	Size
	CLI-155.patch	2008-05-13 04:54 AM	Henri Yandell	5 kB

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13/May/08 04:55 AM

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It would be nice if the caller could define their own ordering of command-line options, as an alternative to alphabetical ordering. I see there's an OptionComparator class within HelpFormatter. Maybe you could add a setOptionComparator(Comparator comp) method.

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Henri Yandell added a comment - 13/May/08 04:54 AM

Attaching patch that implements this with unit test.

Henri Yandell made changes - 13/May/08 04:54 AM

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Attachment		CLI-155.patch [ 12381921 ]

Repository	Revision	Date	User	Message
ASF	#655735	Tue May 13 04:54:59 UTC 2008	bayard	Making the OptionComparator modifiable so people can change the order in which arguments are printed by the HelpFormatter - as requested in ~~CLI-155~~
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				MODIFY /commons/proper/cli/branches/cli-1.x/src/test/org/apache/commons/cli/HelpFormatterTest.java MODIFY /commons/proper/cli/branches/cli-1.x/src/java/org/apache/commons/cli/HelpFormatter.java

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Henri Yandell added a comment - 13/May/08 04:55 AM

svn ci -m "Making the OptionComparator modifiable so people can change the order in which arguments are printed by the HelpFormatter - as requested in ~~CLI-155~~"

Sending src/java/org/apache/commons/cli/HelpFormatter.java
Sending src/test/org/apache/commons/cli/HelpFormatterTest.java
Transmitting file data ..
Committed revision 655735.

Henri Yandell made changes - 13/May/08 04:55 AM

Fix Version/s		1.2 [ 12312674 ]
Resolution		Fixed [ 1 ]
Status	Open [ 1 ]	Closed [ 6 ]

Emmanuel Bourg made changes - 29/May/08 01:03 PM

Component/s	~~CLI-1~~.x [ 12311672 ]
Component/s		Help formatter [ 12312373 ]