[PIVOT-1033] Allow startup properties of the form "--switch" in addition to "--option=value"

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: wtk
• Assignee: Roger Lee Whitcomb
• Reporter: Roger Lee Whitcomb
• Created: 23/Apr/18 17:19
• Updated: 23/Apr/18 20:08

Description

Sometimes applications need options that are either specified or not (a common one is "–verbose" for instance), where there is no need for a value, but simply the presence (or absence) of the flag.  Our current option processing in BrowserApplicationContext and DesktopApplicationContext will not allow that – it always requires "–option=value".  This could be changed.  Then the Map could have a Boolean.TRUE as the value (which could be ignored, of course), but the semantics would be the same as if the option were given as ("–option=true"), but with less typing required ("--option").