[ACCUMULO-745] Use a CLI library consistently to parse parameters in all utilities.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Trivial
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.4.1
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: client
• Labels: newbie
• Assignee: Eric C. Newton
• Reporter: Eric C. Newton
• Created: 29/Aug/12 01:21
• Updated: 06/Mar/15 00:52
• Resolved: 08/Jan/13 15:07

Description

In a few utilities, the command-line parsing is pretty lazy. There's no usage, just an NPE if you don't provide all the magic options on the command-line. In particular, Initialize doesn't use an off-the-shelf library for command-line parsing, and it really should.

See ACCUMULO-744.

In addition, many command-line utilities can and should be able to read accumulo-site.xml, and do not need to provide username/password/instance/zookeeper information by default.

Issue Links

• breaks: ACCUMULO-3008 Update example READMEs for changed argument names
• breaks: ACCUMULO-3334 CloudStone4 doesn't provide arguments correctly to TeraSortIngest
• breaks: ACCUMULO-3517 Several utilities ignore jcommander options
• breaks: ACCUMULO-3649 Accumulo examples READMEs on website are outdated
• breaks: ACCUMULO-2275 Auto tests use wrong options
• is related to: ACCUMULO-1478 Refactor Shell To Use JCommander

Sub-Tasks

• ensure that cli options (for batch writers and scanners in particular) match each utility: Resolved