The following example uses a QualifiedSwitch to allow the user to specify the language(s) to use in verbose mode.
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
JSAP jsap = new JSAP();
FlaggedOption opt1 = new FlaggedOption("count")
.setStringParser(new IntegerStringParser())
.setDefault("1")
.setRequired(true)
.setShortFlag('n')
.setLongFlag(JSAP.NO_LONGFLAG);
opt1.setHelp("The number of times to say hello (default=1).");
jsap.registerParameter(opt1);
QualifiedSwitch sw1 = (QualifiedSwitch)
(new QualifiedSwitch("verbose")
.setShortFlag('v')
.setLongFlag("verbose")
.setList(true)
.setListSeparator(','));
sw1.setHelp("Requests verbose output.");
jsap.registerParameter(sw1);
UnflaggedOption opt2 = new UnflaggedOption("name")
.setStringParser(new StringStringParser())
.setDefault("World")
.setRequired(true)
.setGreedy(true);
opt2.setHelp("One or more names of people you would like to greet.");
jsap.registerParameter(opt2);
JSAPResult config = jsap.parse(args);
if (!config.success()) {
System.err.println();
// print out specific error messages describing the problems
// with the command line, THEN print usage, THEN print full
// help. This is called "beating the user with a clue stick."
for (java.util.Iterator errs = config.getErrorMessageIterator();
errs.hasNext();) {
System.err.println("Error: " + errs.next());
}
System.err.println();
System.err.println("Usage: java "
+ Manual_HelloWorld_8.class.getName());
System.err.println(" "
+ jsap.getUsage());
System.err.println();
System.err.println(jsap.getHelp());
System.exit(1);
}
String[] names = config.getStringArray("name");
String[] languages = config.getStringArray("verbose");
if (languages.length == 0) languages = new String[] {"en"};
for (int lang = 0; lang < languages.length; ++lang) {
for (int i = 0; i < config.getInt("count"); ++i) {
for (int j = 0; j < names.length; ++j) {
System.out.println((config.getBoolean("verbose") ? getVerboseHello(languages[lang]) : "Hi")
+ ", "
+ names[j]
+ "!");
}
}
}
}
private static String getVerboseHello(String language) {
if ((language == null) || "en".equalsIgnoreCase(language)) {
return("Hello");
} else if ("de".equalsIgnoreCase(language)) {
return("Guten Tag");
} else {
return("(Barely audible grunt)");
}
}[mlamb@morbo]$ java com.martiansoftware.jsap.examples.Manual_HelloWorld_8 -n 2 --verbose Zoidberg Hello, Zoidberg! Hello, Zoidberg! [mlamb@morbo]$ java com.martiansoftware.jsap.examples.Manual_HelloWorld_8 --verbose:de Farnsworth Guten Tag, Farnsworth! [mlamb@morbo]$ java com.martiansoftware.jsap.examples.Manual_HelloWorld_8 -v:de,en Branigan Guten Tag, Branigan! Hello, Branigan! [mlamb@morbo]$ java com.martiansoftware.jsap.examples.Manual_HelloWorld_8 Horrible_Gelatanous_Blob Hi, Horrible_Gelatanous_Blob!