command line arguments

[Andre Costa]

Hi,

I am using Swarm-2.1.1/Java on FreeBSD, which was installed on our system
in Dec. 2000. No updates have been made to Swarm since then.

I am trying to pass my own command-line arguments to my Swarm application.
I referred to the online FAQ which has some documents and examples
provided by Sven Thomessen on this matter.

I was hoping to adapt some of the parsing code in TestArguments.java
(http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~pauljohn/SwarmFaq/WorkingExampleCode/java/
TestArgs-Example-5.txt )

What I need is very basic and it initally seemed simpler for
me to write my own parsing rather than take onboard the comprehensive
command-line system given by Sven.


In the "main" section of the app, I have

>  public static void main (String[] args) {
>    Globals.env.initSwarm ("agentNetwork","0.1","email",args);
>    int h = Globals.env.arguments.getLastArgIndex();
>
>   ...
>  }

which gives the following error when I compile:

>  Found 1 semantic error compiling "StartAgentSim.java":
>
>      15.         int h = (int) Globals.env.arguments.getLastArgIndex();
>                              <------------------->
>  *** Error: No field named "arguments" was found in type
>  "swarm/SwarmEnvironment". make: *** [all] Error 1

Other Globals.env fields and methods work fine. 
Is this problem to do with the version of Swarm that I am using ? (ie: is
the Globals.env.arguments a recent addition to the package ?)

Is it possible in principle for the inbuilt Swarm command line parsing 
 to co-exist with additional parsing code which I write - just as I would
for a pure Java app, assuming I don't use the existing Swarm command line
flags ?


Thanks,
Andre Costa.


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Andre Costa                             
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