Best way to parse command-line parameters? [closed]

Answer 1

I'm going to pile on. I solved this with a simple line of code. My command line arguments look like this:

input--hdfs:/path/to/myData/part-00199.avro output--hdfs:/path/toWrite/Data fileFormat--avro option1--5

This creates an array via Scala's native command line functionality (from either App or a main method):

Array("input--hdfs:/path/to/myData/part-00199.avro", "output--hdfs:/path/toWrite/Data","fileFormat--avro","option1--5")

I can then use this line to parse out the default args array:

val nArgs = args.map(x=>x.split("--")).map(y=>(y(0),y(1))).toMap

Which creates a map with names associated with the command line values:

Map(input -> hdfs:/path/to/myData/part-00199.avro, output -> hdfs:/path/toWrite/Data, fileFormat -> avro, option1 -> 5)

I can then access the values of named parameters in my code and the order they appear on the command line is no longer relevant. I realize this is fairly simple and doesn't have all the advanced functionality mentioned above but seems to be sufficient in most cases, only needs one line of code, and doesn't involve external dependencies.