[Jsap-users] Cmdline parsing

[Jari Matilainen]

Hi,

I have a problem that I figure is down to how JSAP parses the options, namely if 
I run a command like 'java client -c check_subsystem -a "-l QGPL -s EASY.PRD"',
the -a flaggedoption accepts a string which is to be sent to another class for
further parsing, but the client class tries to parse the string as if it was part
of the arguments.

I hope you can bring some clarity to the problem.

The part of my code this problem occurs in:

/**********************************************************************/
try
     {
       FlaggedOption opt1 = new FlaggedOption("cmd").setStringParser(JSAP.STRING_PARSER).setRequired(true).setShortFlag('c').setLongFlag("command").setAllowMultipleDeclarations(false);
       FlaggedOption opt2 = new FlaggedOption("args").setStringParser(JSAP.STRING_PARSER).setRequired(false).setShortFlag('a').setLongFlag("args").setAllowMultipleDeclarations(false);
       FlaggedOption opt3 = new FlaggedOption("warn").setStringParser(JSAP.LONG_PARSER).setRequired(false).setShortFlag('W').setLongFlag("warning").setAllowMultipleDeclarations(false);
       FlaggedOption opt4 = new FlaggedOption("crit").setStringParser(JSAP.LONG_PARSER).setRequired(false).setShortFlag('C').setLongFlag("critical").setAllowMultipleDeclarations(false);
       FlaggedOption opt5 = new FlaggedOption("tout").setStringParser(JSAP.INTEGER_PARSER).setRequired(false).setShortFlag('T').setLongFlag("timeout").setAllowMultipleDeclarations(false);
       FlaggedOption opt6 = new FlaggedOption("port").setStringParser(JSAP.INTEGER_PARSER).setRequired(false).setShortFlag('P').setLongFlag("port").setAllowMultipleDeclarations(false);
       FlaggedOption opt9 = new FlaggedOption("host").setStringParser(JSAP.STRING_PARSER).setRequired(false).setShortFlag('H').setLongFlag("host").setAllowMultipleDeclarations(false);

       Switch opt7 = new Switch("debug").setShortFlag('d').setLongFlag("debug");
       Switch opt8 = new Switch("help").setShortFlag('h').setLongFlag("help");

       opt1.setHelp("Specify the java class to call");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt1);
       opt2.setHelp("Arguments to the java class in the form -a 'arg1 arg2 arg3 ... argN'");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt2);
       opt3.setHelp("Warning threshold");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt3);
       opt4.setHelp("Critical threshold");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt4);
       opt5.setHelp("Timeout in seconds");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt5);
       opt6.setHelp("Port to connect to");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt6);
       opt9.setHelp("Host to connect to");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt9);
       opt7.setHelp("Enable debugging output");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt7);
       opt8.setHelp("Display help");
       jsap.registerParameter(opt8);
     }
     catch (Exception e)
     {
       System.out.println("Error building argument list: " + e.getMessage());
       System.exit(2);
     }

     JSAPResult config = jsap.parse(args);

     if(config.getBoolean("help"))
     {
         System.err.println("Usage: java " + client.class.getName());
         System.err.println("\t" + jsap.getUsage());
         System.err.println(jsap.getHelp());
         System.exit(0);
     }

     if(!config.success())
     {
       System.err.println();

       for(java.util.Iterator errs = config.getErrorMessageIterator(); errs.hasNext();)
       {
         System.err.println("Error: " + errs.next());
       }
       System.err.println();

       System.err.println("Usage: java " + client.class.getName());
       System.err.println();
       System.err.println(jsap.getHelp());

       System.exit(2);
     }

     String cmd = config.getString("cmd");
     String cmdargs = config.getString("args", "");
     String[] argv;

     // The statement below is just for cosmetics. If argv isn't an empty string array, the argument parsing in the plugins
     // would think there is one argument to parse
     if(cmdargs.equals(""))
     {
       argv = new String[] {};
     }
     else
     {
       argv = cmdargs.split(" ");
     }

     long warn = config.getLong("warn", 1);
     long crit = config.getLong("crit", 1);
     int timeout = config.getInt("tout", 10);
     int port = config.getInt("port", 3333);
     String host = config.getString("host","localhost");
     boolean debug = config.getBoolean("debug");

/**********************************************************************/

/Jari