More structured exceptions

• Key: CLI-86
• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Priority: Minor
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ittay Dror
• Component/s: CLI-1.x
• Affects Version/s: 1.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.2

Description

Currently exceptions are not structured. When one is thrown, from parsing, only
the message can be used, which means that if i want to print an error to the
user i must use the message as is, which sometimes doesn't fit.

The offending Option/OptionGroup should be in some exceptions.

Comments

[Henri Yandell]

Seems like a very good feature - worth being in 2.0 I think. Thoughts?

[Henri Yandell]

If you look at:

http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jakarta/commons/proper/cli/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/cli2/OptionException.java

You'll see that the exception in CLI 2 appears to have what you want. If not, please feel free to re-open the issue.

[Emmanuel Bourg]

Moving to CLI 1.x since it has been implemented there.