Thanks for this proposal! That should significantly improve the user experience 
with the CLI.


> Le 21 févr. 2024 à 06:08, Zixuan Liu <node...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
> Hi Pulsar Community,
> 
> The pulsar CLI(pulsar-admin, pulsar-client, pulsar-shell, and so on) uses
> the jcommander [1] as CLI parser, which is an awesome project, but the
> maintainer is not active and cannot keep up with modern CLI
> features(auto-completion, sub-command, native-images, suggest commands, and
> so on). Then I found the picocli [2] project to meet these needs, which is
> active and powerful. For comparison, please see [3].
> 
> Error prompt:
> ```
> bin/pulsar-admin clusters update cluster-a -b
> 
> # jcommander
> Need to provide just 1 parameter
> 
> # picocli
> Unknown option: '-b'
> ```
> 
> Suggest commands:
> ```
> bin/pulsar-admin cluste
> 
> # jcommander
> Expected a command, got cluste
> 
> # picocli
> Unmatched argument at index 0: 'cluste'
> Did you mean: pulsar-admin clusters?
> ```
> 
> What do you think about migrating CLI parse from jcommander to picocli?
> 
> Thanks,
> Zixuan
> 
> [1] - https://github.com/cbeust/jcommander
> [2] - https://picocli.info/
> [3] - https://github.com/remkop/picocli/wiki/picocli-vs-JCommander

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