Java: picocli: How to provide argument to command without naming it?

Question

Is it possible to provide argument to @CommandLine.Command without explicitly naming the argument in picocli?

As example the following command can be invoked as: open n 1. However, I would like to be able to invoke the command as open 1.

@CommandLine.Command(name = "open",
    mixinStandardHelpOptions = true,
    version = "1.0",
    description = "Open note")
@Getter
@ToString
public class OpenCommand implements Runnable {
    @CommandLine.ParentCommand TopLevelCommand parent;


    @CommandLine.Option(names = {"number", "n"}, description = "Number of note to open")
    private Integer number;


    public void run() {

        System.out.println(String.format("Number of note that will be opened: " + number));
    }
}

Place the commands in quotation marks. `"open n 1" "open 1"` are two different command line arguments on the same command line. — DevilsHnd - 退職した, May 11 '22 at 10:50

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 12 '22 at 05:25

Picocli offers the @Parameters annotation for positional parameters, in addition to the @Option annotation, which is for named parameters.

If you use the @Parameters annotation for the number, instead of @Option(names = "n"), then end users can invoke the command as open 1.

That is a fairly minimal change, the resulting code could look like this:

@CommandLine.Command(name = "open",
    mixinStandardHelpOptions = true,
    version = "1.0",
    description = "Open note")
@Getter
@ToString
public class OpenCommand implements Runnable {
    @CommandLine.ParentCommand TopLevelCommand parent;

    @CommandLine.Parameters(description = "Number of notes to open")
    private Integer number;

    public void run() {
        System.out.printf("Number of notes that will be opened: %s%n", number);
    }
}

Java: picocli: How to provide argument to command without naming it?

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