select from a small amount of options in spring shell

Question

I am currently trying to make an cli app with Spring Shell.

I want the user to able to fast pick one of 2-3 options. My current code works fine in eclipse but when I sta

Answer 1

Spring Shell 2 is based on JLine 3. For just a "small amount of options" I would recommend to use a feature like tab completion.

(It works on Powershell, but I never get any tab-completion support in Eclipse-Console).

It is quite easy:

import java.util.List;
import org.jline.reader.LineReader;
import org.jline.reader.LineReaderBuilder;
import org.jline.reader.impl.completer.StringsCompleter;
import org.jline.terminal.Terminal;
import org.springframework.context.annotation.Lazy;
import org.springframework.shell.standard.ShellComponent;
import org.springframework.shell.standard.ShellMethod;

@ShellComponent
public class CompleterInteractionCommand {

    private final List OPTIONS = List.of("create", "update", "delete");
    private final Terminal terminal;

    public CompleterInteractionCommand(@Lazy final Terminal terminal) {
        this.terminal = terminal;
    }

    @ShellMethod
    public String completeSelect() {
        LineReader lineReader = LineReaderBuilder.builder()
                .terminal(this.terminal)
                .completer(new StringsCompleter(this.OPTIONS))
                .build();
        /* Important: This allows completion on an empty buffer, rather than inserting a tab! */
        lineReader.unsetOpt(LineReader.Option.INSERT_TAB);

        String desription = "select on of this options: " + OPTIONS + "\n"
                          + " use TAB (twice) to select them\n";        
        String input = lineReader.readLine(desription + "input: ").trim();
        return "you selected \"" + input + "\"";
    }
}