[CLI-256] Configure Options from usage statement

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Options definition
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Ralph LeVan
• Created: 15/Jul/15 21:07
• Updated: 15/Jul/15 21:07

Description

I wrote a layer on top of JSAP to configure its parser from a simple usage statement. I tried to push that code back to the developer, with no success. I'd like to see that code get into production somewhere so I can stop using my private fork.

For JSAP, configuration turned into this:
SimplerJSAP jsap = new SimplerJSAP("dbname [--taglist<String>] [--alternativeTagpaths<File>]");
JSAPResult config = jsap.parse(args);

This is much simpler and much much more readable than the JSAP code and it looks to me like the CLI version is just as complicated.