Hi all, once we had a discussion (it must be one or two years ago) whether Commons could support components in other (JVM) languages, too. IIRC, there were no strong objections, but there has never been a follow up.
For a project in Scala, I needed some limited functionality to process command line parameters. I came up with a functional solution that seemed to be pretty flexible. So I extracted the code into a separate repository [1] and enhanced it. It is now in a shape that it supports a lot of the features typical to a CLI library. The functional programming (FP) approach is probably somewhat special: you define extractors using a DSL, which are actually monads and thus can be nicely transformed and composed to more complex structures. The end product is a configuration object representing all the parameters passed to the application in a type-safe manner. The repository contains a README describing the high-level concepts and a tutorial [2] with a comprehensive description of all the features available. So I would like to ask again the question whether Commons could have components in other programming languages, and more specifically, whether this CLI for Scala library could be a candidate. Notes: - Except for the domain, there is no relation to the original [CLI]; the concepts are completely different. - The Scala CLI has been written in and for Scala; so the API can probably not be used from Java directly. - As special Scala language features are used, it won't be trivial to port this code to Java; but maybe some of the ideas could be incorporated into [CLI]? Thanks Oliver [1] https://github.com/oheger/scli [2] https://github.com/oheger/scli/blob/master/Tutorial.adoc --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@commons.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@commons.apache.org
