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问题:

I need to write a simple command-line application in Java. It would be nice to use a library that takes care of parsing commands and takes care of things like flags and optional/mandatory parameters...

UPDATE

Something that has built-in TAB completion would be particularly great.

回答1:

I've used the Apache Commons CLI library for command-line argument parsing. It's fairly easy to use and has reasonably good documentation.

Which library you choose probably comes down to which style of options you prefer ("--gnu-style" or "-javac-style").

Update: picocli TAB completion recently became available and may be of interest. Not aware of any other command line parsing library that provides the command line completion requested in the OP.

回答2:

JLine looks helpful.

JLine is a Java library for handling console input. It is similar in functionality to BSD editline and GNU readline. People familiar with the readline/editline capabilities for modern shells (such as bash and tcsh) will find most of the command editing features of JLine to be familiar.

And it does list tab completion in its features. 

回答3:

As you're searching for a library that eases developing an interactive shell application, I'd suggest Cliche.

回答4:

Have a look at arg4j.

回答5:

In our company we are using JewelCli that uses an annotated Java interface definition to describe the Command Line Interface in a declarative style.

Light and simple to use, I'll recommend it.

回答6:

I have used the Java Simple Argument Parser extensively. It handles all sorts of option types, has a well-designed and library (including the option to write custom parsers), and provides good documentation both in the JavaDocs and online.

I think your desire for tab completion would be taken care of by the shell rather than the command-line parsing library.

回答7:

There is a Java port of GNU getopt library for command line parsing. For command editing and TAB completion there is JLine (as mmyers has already recommended).

回答8:

It's also worth looking at --jopt-simple.

It 'attempts to honor the command line option syntaxes of POSIX getopt() and GNU getopt_long().' It seems to have some community traction, notably being the command line parsing lib of choice for the OpenJDK.

Also, as Brett mentioned, tab completion is typically provided by your shell - you would write shell functions to provide that desired functionality.

p.s. Sorry for the duplicate answer, but this question is almost identical to Java library for parsing command-line parameters?

回答9:

I have used JSAP. I have found it to be stable and well documented.

I am not sure I understand what you mean by "built-in TAB completion". Can you elaborate.

回答10:

I tried a few libraries and ended up using argparse4j. It's a really nice Java port of Python's argparse.