Convenient mechanism to get key/value pairs for command line args

[Joseph Madden]

Hi All,

I'm writing a simple app and I'd like to log all values associated with all options (provided or defaulted).  So far, I have something like the following:

OptionParser OPTION_PARSER = new OptionParser();

#...add some specs

OptionSet optionSet = OPTION_PARSER.parse(args);

OPTION_PARSER.recognizedOptions().forEach((t, u) -> LOGGER.info("[{}] == {}", t, optionSet.valueOf(u)));

This produces duplicates for the options which have aliases.  Is there a better way to do this?

Any help appreciated.

Regards,

Joe

[Paul Holser]

Hi Joe, thanks for your interest, and my apologies for the late reply.

One option (no pun intended) would be to make OptionParser.recognizedOptions() return only one entry for an option that has synonyms.

Would it matter to you which synonym gets to be "recognized"? Would the first synonym specified be enough?

Let's discuss in a GitHub issue. Would you mind to create one?

Thanks,

p

[Paul Holser]

Hi Joe,

May I also suggest OptionSet.asMap()?

    optionSet.asMap().forEach((o, args) -> Logger.info("{} == {}", o, args));

Let us know how this works for you.

Cheers,

p

[Joseph Madden]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your reply.  Your suggestion works perfectly for my use case.

Cheers,

Joe