[Engine-devel] Adding JCommander library to projects

[Alon Bar-Lev]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Martin Perina" <mperina at redhat.com>
> To: engine-devel at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2013 10:48:07 AM
> Subject: [Engine-devel] Adding JCommander library to projects
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm currently working on bug 904029, support for POSIX parameters and
> values
> in engine-manage-domains. I think there are two possible solutions:
> 
>   1) Write custom parser (similar to EngineConfigCLIParser used for
>   engine-config)
>   2) Add CLI parsing library to project and use it for all command
>   line clients
>      (first implementation could be for engine-manage-domains)
> 
> I think 2) is much better approach, but I'm not sure about the
> process of adding new
> library to project.
> 
> Personally I like JCommander ( http://jcommander.org ), using
> annotation for parameter
> specification is great. JCommander is licensed with Apache 2.0
> license, so the addition
> shouldn't be a problem.
> 
> So, would it be possible to add JCommander library to project?

I believe that any other solution will be better than current situation.

However, I recommend of horizontal change when such introduced, leaving hybrid implementation in tree will just make maintenance cost higher when introducing new dependency. It should not be that difficult to port all current implementation to the new dependency when selected.

Regards,
Alon.