Abandoning JDKs prior to 8. All source is Java 8-compatible, and bytecode is compiled to 1.8 version. gh-108
Resolved gh-96 so that help formatter descriptions for options whose arguments have default values can use ValueConverter.revert() on the result of OptionDescriptor.converter() to display the default values in a manner other than their toString() representations.
Resolved gh-101 by adding OptionSet.valueOfOptional() and OptionSpec.valueOptional().
Changes in version 5.0.4
Resolved gh-122 so that long options ending with an equals will have an empty value.
Changes in version 5.0.3
Resolved gh-96 so that options that take an argument but don't change the argument type from String still show a String type indicator in the default option help.
Resolved gh-104 so that EnumConverter performs case-insensitive matching against arguments of options. Thanks to Martin Paljak for this.
Changes in version 5.0.2
Made some package-private abstract classes become public classes with package-private constructors. This makes it possible to call some methods from Kotlin that were previously inaccessible. Thanks to Mirko Friedenhagen for this.
Changes in version 5.0.1
Resolved gh-92 so that in the event that printHelpOn() is called more than once, the output is not duplicated.
Changes in version 5.0
Abandoning JDKs prior to 7. All source is Java 7-compatible, and bytecode is compiled to 1.7 version.
Resolved gh-51 by adding OptionSpecBuilder.availableIf() and OptionSpecBuilder.availableUnless(). Thanks to Christian Ohr for this.
Resolved gh-70 by adding EnumConverter and PathConverter. Thanks to Christian Ohr for this.
Resolved gh-88 by adding an OptionParser constructor to allow suppression of option abbreviations. Thanks to Louis Bergelson for this.
Changes in version 4.10
Resolved gh-85 by correcting the description column width consumption of the built-in help formatter.
Changes in version 4.9
Resolved gh-79 by correcting the behavior of OptionException.multipleOptionString when handling options with synonyms.
Resolved gh-72 by externalizing some of the literal strings in BuiltinHelpFormatter into resource bundles.
Resolved gh-76 by modifying the behavior of OptionalArgumentOptionSpec so that if the argument following the option does not "look like" an option but can be converted to the option argument's type, treat the argument as the argument of the option.
Resolved gh-68 by modifying BuiltinHelpFormatter to be more extensible and documenting the behavior of the newly accessible methods.
Resolved gh-73 by correcting the behavior of OptionSet.specs() to remove all instances of the non-option argument spec.
Changes in version 4.8
Resolved gh-65 by modifying the build file to create a JAR with OSGi metadata.
Resolved gh-63 by externalizing exception messages into resource bundles. Currently, we ship only with messages for locale "en_US". Translations for other locales are more than welcome.
Resolved gh-58 by rewriting exception messaging to clarify synonymous options. Synonyms are be separated by slashes (/); lists of distinct options will be separated by commas (,) in square brackets ([]).
Changes in version 4.7
Resolved gh-57 by admitting the underscore as a legal option character.
Resolved gh-53 by correcting OptionSet.hasOptions() to answer correctly for no switches.
Resolved gh-56 by correcting the default help formatting not to use a Set for rows of output, but List.
Resolved gh-59 by relaxing the return type of ValueConverter.valueType().
Changes in version 4.6
Resolved gh-31 by offering OptionSpecBuilder.requiredUnless(). Thanks to Christian Ohr for this.
Resolved gh-38 by offering OptionParser.recognizedOptions(). Thanks to Antoine Neveux for this.
Resolved gh-35 by offering OptionSet.asMap(). Thanks to Brian Oxley for this.
Changes in version 4.5
Resolved gh-17 by offering OptionParser.nonOptions() and NonOptionArgumentSpec.
Resolved gh-27 by offering OptionParser.allowsUnrecognizedOptions(). Thanks to Erik Broes for this.
Changes in version 4.4
Resolved gh-16 by offering BuiltinHelpFormatter that allows configuration of overall row width and column separator width. Thanks to Ryan Breidenbach for contributing code to this.
Resolved gh-12 by offering OptionSpecBuilder.requiredIf().
Resolved gh-14 by offering AbstractOptionSpec.forHelp().
Resolved gh-13 by offering ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec.withValuesSeparatedBy(String).
Added InetAddressValueConverter. Thanks to Raymund Fülöp for this.
Changes in version 4.3
Resolved gh-9 by offering OptionSet.specs(), which gives a list of the specs corresponding to the options detected on a parse, in the order in which the options occurred on the command line.
Changes in version 4.2
Resolved gh-8 by offering ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec.defaultsTo(V[]) in addition to ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec.defaultsTo(V, V...).
Removing some internal unused classes and methods.
Changes in version 4.1
Resolved gh-7 by allowing short option clusters to contain options which can accept arguments. When such an option is encountered, the remaining characters in the cluster are treated as the argument to the option. Thanks to Alan van Dam for this.
Resolved gh-6 with general improvements to the project's site. Thanks to Michael Osipov for this.
Changes in version 4.0
Resolved gh-4 by adding method OptionParser.formatHelpWith(HelpFormatter) to allow programmers to influence what help is printed with OptionParser.printHelpOn(). A HelpFormatter is handed a map, keyed by option text, whose values are OptionDescriptors that describe the options the parser has been configured with.
Added method OptionSet.hasOptions(). Thanks to Michael Osipov for this.
Resolved gh-3 by using SimpleDateFormat.toPattern() rather than SimpleDateFormat.toLocalizedPattern() in DateConverter. Thanks to Michael Osipov for this.
Resolved gh-5 by allowing primitive Class objects whose wrapper types are considered "value types" for purposes of ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec.ofType() in place of the wrapper classes. Thanks to Daniel Yokomizo for suggesting this.
Changes in version 3.3
Resolved gh-1 by adding method required() to class ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec, to allow callers to indicate that a given option must be present on the command line. Thanks to Emils Solmanis for adding this.
Changes in version 3.2
Added method defaultsTo() to class ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec, to allow callers to specify default values for arguments of options. These influence the return values of OptionSpec.value(s)() and OptionSet.value(s)Of(). Default values also show up in the help screen entries for their options. This serves to resolve feature request 2484524.
Fixed a problem whereby the empty string, a string consisting solely of whitespace, or a string with embedded whitespace weren't being properly recognized as arguments of options when they should have.
Resolved feature request 2793762, having to do with improving the behavior of embedded newlines in option descriptions in help screens.
Changes in version 3.1
Added method withValuesConvertedBy() to class ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec, to allow callers to specify converters or validators that transform arguments of options into instances of specific Java types. This is useful for types which do not meet the requirements of ofType().
Added classes DateConverter and RegexMatcher as examples of useful argument converters.
Changes in version 3.0.1
Dependency on Ant more appropriately test-scoped in the Maven POM. That way, if you use JOpt Simple with Maven, you don't download Ant unnecessarily.
Changes in version 3.0
Version 3.0 supports Java 5 and greater only. If you need to use JOpt Simple in a pre-Java-5 environment, use the latest 2.x release.
Where appropriate, existing API calls have been updated to use Java generics.
Extracted and surfaced interface OptionSpec. OptionSpecs returned by the fluent interface methods can be used to retrieve arguments of the options they represent in a type-safe manner.
Removed all previously deprecated methods.
Added methods to OptionSet to allow detection of options and retrieval of option arguments using instances of OptionSpec.
Converted tests to JUnit 4.
Switched to MIT License.
Relaxing some List parameter types and return types of methods to Collection.
OptionArgumentConversionException no longer drops the original cause on the floor; hence OptionException can now be created with a cause.
Added the acceptsAll() method to class OptionParser. Options passed to a given invocation of this method are treated as synonymous, so that each gives the same answer when given as the argument to the methods has(), valuesOf(), etc. on OptionSet.
Surfaced the class KeyValuePair. This class can be very handy as a value type for arguments whose values take on the form key=value, such as the -D arguments to JVMs.
Added method withValuesSeparatedBy() to class ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec, to allow callers to specify multiple values for an option as a single argument with values separated by a given character.
Method ofType() on class ArgumentAcceptingOptionSpec now returns self rather than void.
Deprecated another "get for get's sake": OptionParser.setPosixlyCorrect() It is replaced with a less Java-beany-looking method.
Cleaned up the help screens produced by OptionParser.printHelpOn() so they are rendered as two 40-character columns, with long space-broken values split across lines as needed.
No changes to code; just getting Maven to do releases with its plugins.
Changes in version 2.3.3
Deprecated method OptionSet.wasDetected() in favor of OptionSet.has() -- the new name seems to read better.
OptionExceptions now override getMessage() sensibly, so that if a caller wants to handle the exception by catching it and displaying a message from the exception, she can do so and get satisfactory results.
Fixed a bug with POSIX-ly correct parsers. It was previously thought that POSIX-ly correct parsers should signal end of options when they detect an argument that does not lexically look like an option and could not be an argument of a previous option, required or optional. Such parsers now signal end of options when they detect an argument that does not lexically look like an option, and is not an argument of a previous option with a required argument. If you want such an argument to be treated as the argument of a preceding option whose argument is optional, you can still get this behavior by appending the argument to the option, either with abutting syntax (-d/tmp) or key-value syntax (-d=/tmp).
Changes in version 2.3
No feature changes in this release; but this release can now be used with JDK 1.3. Previous releases could be used only with JDK 1.4 or newer.
Changes in version 2.2
Removed all previously deprecated methods.
Re-clarified the contract of the one-arg String constructor of OptionParser: the constructor now raises NullPointerException if its argument is null. This is the convention for Java library methods which receive illegal null parameters.
Changes in version 2.1
Introduced a facility for OptionParsers to print a help screen, which describes the options they accept.
Added the ability to provide descriptions of options and their arguments when configuring an OptionParser. These descriptions are printed in the aforementioned help screens.
Clarified the contract of the one-arg String constructor of OptionParser: the constructor raises IllegalArgumentException if its argument is null.
Deprecated OptionParser.noArg(), OptionParser.requiredArg(), and OptionParser.optionalArg().
Deprecated some "gets for gets' sake": OptionException.getOption(), OptionSet.getNonOptionArguments(). They are replaced with less Java-beany-looking methods.
Changes in version 2.0
Introduced a "fluent interface" API for specifying options for an OptionParser to recognize. The old methods for option specification still work--you need not convert to the new methods.
Added the ability to specify that option arguments should be converted to specific types. You can do this either with the old option specification methods or with the new fluent interface API.
Deprecated OptionParser.requiresArg() in favor of OptionParser.requiredArg() -- the new name seems to read better.
Version 1.0
First major release.
Includes concrete classes OptionParser and OptionSet.
Supports POSIX getopt() and GNU getopt_long() command line syntax.
No type conversion on option arguments, they are all treated as Strings.
Methods noArg(), requiredArg(), and optionalArg() tell an OptionParser what options to recognize.
