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                <a style='color:#326ca6;text-decoration:none;' href='https://issues.shibboleth.net/jira/browse/MDA-67'><strong>allow the setting of Spring variables from the command line</strong></a>
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        <div class="comment-block" style="background-color:#edf5ff;border:1px solid #dddddd;color:#000000;padding:12px;"><p>Or, still very hard.</p>

<p>Parsing the command line with JCommander does turn out to be very straightforward.  However, there appears to be no way to influence the EvaluationContext used in the ApplicationContext.</p>

<p>I'm attaching some code that could be used to implement the parsing part of this, but it looks to me like actually implementing something useful will have to wait for a future version of Spring.</p>

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<pre class="code-java">    <span class="code-comment">// Dynamic parameters
</span>    
    /**
     * Dynamic parameters to allow definition of Spring variables.
     */
    @DynamicParameter(names = <span class="code-quote">"-D"</span>)
    <span class="code-keyword">private</span> Map&lt;<span class="code-object">String</span>, <span class="code-object">String</span>&gt; variableDefinitions = <span class="code-keyword">new</span> HashMap&lt;&gt;();
    
    /**
     * Return the variable definition options.
     * 
     * @<span class="code-keyword">return</span> {@link Map} from variable name to variable value.
     */
    @Nonnull <span class="code-keyword">public</span> Map&lt;<span class="code-object">String</span>, <span class="code-object">String</span>&gt; getVariableDefinitions() {
        <span class="code-keyword">return</span> variableDefinitions;
    }

        out.println(<span class="code-object">String</span>.format(<span class="code-quote">"  --%-20s %s"</span>, <span class="code-quote">"Da=b"</span>, <span class="code-quote">"Define spring variable 'a' with value 'b'."</span>));
        out.println();

        <span class="code-keyword">for</span> (Entry&lt;<span class="code-object">String</span>, <span class="code-object">String</span>&gt; entry : cli.getVariableDefinitions().entrySet()) {
            <span class="code-comment">// whatever
</span>        }

<span class="code-keyword">package</span> net.shibboleth.metadata.cli;

<span class="code-keyword">import</span> java.util.Map;

<span class="code-keyword">import</span> org.testng.Assert;
<span class="code-keyword">import</span> org.testng.annotations.Test;

<span class="code-keyword">public</span> class SimpleCommandLineArgumentsTest {

    @Test <span class="code-keyword">public</span> void getVariableDefinitions() <span class="code-keyword">throws</span> Exception {
        <span class="code-keyword">final</span> SimpleCommandLineArguments cli = <span class="code-keyword">new</span> SimpleCommandLineArguments();
        <span class="code-keyword">final</span> <span class="code-object">String</span>[] argv = {
                <span class="code-quote">"file"</span>, <span class="code-quote">"-Daaa=bbb"</span>, <span class="code-quote">"pipe"</span>, <span class="code-quote">"-Dalfa=bravo"</span>,
        };
        cli.parseCommandLineArguments(argv);
        <span class="code-keyword">final</span> Map&lt;<span class="code-object">String</span>, <span class="code-object">String</span>&gt; vars = cli.getVariableDefinitions();
        Assert.assertEquals(cli.getInputFile(), <span class="code-quote">"file"</span>);
        Assert.assertEquals(cli.getPipelineName(), <span class="code-quote">"pipe"</span>);
        Assert.assertEquals(vars.size(), 2);
        Assert.assertEquals(vars.get(<span class="code-quote">"aaa"</span>), <span class="code-quote">"bbb"</span>);
        Assert.assertEquals(vars.get(<span class="code-quote">"alfa"</span>), <span class="code-quote">"bravo"</span>);
        Assert.assertNull(vars.get(<span class="code-quote">"ccc"</span>));
    }
}
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