Natural CLI

Natural CLI is a Java library providing to developers command line interfaces with human readable sentences. It means, your software can understand easily command lines like the following:


   $acme start daemon mailservice
   $acme send file /tmp/pau.jpg to you@somehost.com
   $acme start backup in 10 minutes
   $acme zip to todaywork.zip files a.txt b.txt c.txt

It's very easy to define, only need strings like:


   start daemon <name:string>
   send file <file> to <email>
   start backup in <number> [minutes]
   zip to <file> files <filename> ...

Project:

Download the last release (1.2.2) with the last changes.
Obtain the sources or checkout them from the SVN repository.
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Main Features:

Java implementation.
Very easy to use. Please, visit the examples page and the Javadocs.
Type checking for parameters and user defined types.
Optional parameters and tokens.
The last token can be a parameter that took an arbitrary number of values.
Build-in help command to automatically show the commands syntax and others.
Full tested with JUnit.
Can be done compatible with Apache Commons CLI.
And much more!

Working on:

Rewriting parser to add more powerful syntaxs.
Natural CLI for Python.

Ferran Busquets