[CLI-51] [cli] Parameter value "-something" misinterpreted as a parameter

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Nightly Builds
• Fix Version/s: 1.1
• Component/s: CLI-1.x

Environment

Operating System: Windows NT
Platform: PC

• Bugzilla Id: 34831
• Assignee: Henri Yandell
• Reporter: Nigel King
• Created: 10/May/05 10:50
• Updated: 22/May/07 17:47
• Resolved: 22/May/07 17:47

Description

If a parameter value is passed that contains a hyphen as the (delimited) first
character, CLI parses this a parameter. For example using the call
java myclass -t "-something"
Results in the parser creating the invalid parameter -o (noting that it is
skipping the 's')

My code is using the Posix parser as follows
Options options = buildCommandLineOptions();
CommandLineParser parser = new PosixParser();
CommandLine commandLine = null;
try {

commandLine = parser.parse(options, args);
}
catch (ParseException e) {

System.out.println("Invalid parameters. " + e.getMessage() + NEW_LINE);
System.exit(EXIT_CODE_ERROR);
}

This has been tested against the nightly build dated 20050503.