[CLI-145] ArgumentBuilder.withMaximum causes parse errors: Unexpeced <value> while processing options

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0
• Component/s: CLI-2.x

Environment

Windows XP

• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: David Biesack
• Created: 17/Aug/07 16:48
• Updated: 09/Jun/08 13:48
• Resolved: 09/Jun/08 07:27

Description

With the sample program below, running with the arguments

-a 0 -b 1 2 3 4

causes the error:

Unexpected 3 while processing options
Usage:
[-a <a1> [<a2> ...] -b <b1> <b2> [<b3> [<b4>]]]
options
a (-a) a [a ...]
b (-b) b b [b [b]]

I specified .withMinimum(2).withMaximum(4)
The help is correct, but the value '3' is not added as a value.

Note also that if for bOption, if you add two more defaults (uncomment them in the source)

.withDefault("10000")
.withDefault("1000000")

an error is raised (incorrectly) on the first b value (i.e. 1 instead of 3) :

Unexpected 1 while processing options
Usage:
[-a <a1> [<a2> ...] -b <b1> <b2> [<b3> [<b4>]]]
options
a (-a) a [a ...]
b (-b) b b [b [b]]

Source:

package org.apache.commons.cli2.issues;

import java.util.List;
import org.apache.commons.cli2.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.cli2.Group;
import org.apache.commons.cli2.builder.ArgumentBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.cli2.builder.DefaultOptionBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.cli2.builder.GroupBuilder;
import org.apache.commons.cli2.commandline.Parser;
import org.apache.commons.cli2.option.DefaultOption;

public class WithMinimum
{
public static void main(String[] args)

{ final DefaultOptionBuilder obuilder = new DefaultOptionBuilder(); final ArgumentBuilder abuilder = new ArgumentBuilder(); final GroupBuilder gbuilder = new GroupBuilder(); DefaultOption aOption = obuilder// .withShortName("a") .withLongName("a") .withArgument(abuilder .withName("a") .withDefault("10") .create()) .create(); DefaultOption bOption = obuilder .withShortName("b") .withLongName("b") .withArgument(abuilder .withName("b") .withMinimum(2) .withMaximum(4) .withDefault("100") .withDefault("1000") // .withDefault("10000") // .withDefault("1000000") .create()) .create(); Group options = gbuilder .withName("options") .withOption(aOption) .withOption(bOption) .create(); Parser parser = new Parser(); parser.setHelpTrigger("--help"); parser.setGroup(options); CommandLine cl = parser.parseAndHelp(args); if (cl == null) System.exit(1); int a = Integer.parseInt(cl.getValue(aOption).toString()); List b = cl.getValues(bOption); System.out.printf("a=%d b=%s%n", a, b); }

}