Added support for URL parameters

2 files changed, 52 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/main/java/com/beust/jcommander/converters/URLConverter.java b/src/main/java/com/beust/jcommander/converters/URLConverter.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1f3734b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/com/beust/jcommander/converters/URLConverter.java
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (C) 2010 the original author or authors.
+ * See the notice.md file distributed with this work for additional
+ * information regarding copyright ownership.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+package com.beust.jcommander.converters;
+
+import com.beust.jcommander.ParameterException;
+
+import java.net.MalformedURLException;
+import java.net.URL;
+
+/**
+ * Convert a string into a URI.
+ * 
+ * @author samvv
+ */
+public class URLConverter extends BaseConverter<URL> {
+
+	public URLConverter(String optionName) {
+		super(optionName);
+	}
+
+	public URL convert(String value) {
+		try {
+			return new URL(value);
+		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+			throw new ParameterException(
+					getErrorString(value, "a RFC 2396 and RFC 2732 compliant URL"));
+			
+		}
+	}
+}
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diff --git a/src/test/java/com/beust/jcommander/args/ArgsConverter.java b/src/test/java/com/beust/jcommander/args/ArgsConverter.java
index 159ed78..c33475c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/beust/jcommander/args/ArgsConverter.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/beust/jcommander/args/ArgsConverter.java
@@ -23,13 +23,17 @@ import com.beust.jcommander.converters.FileConverter;
 
 import java.io.File;
 import java.math.BigDecimal;
+import java.net.URI;
 import java.util.List;
 
 public class ArgsConverter {
 
   @Parameter(names = "-file", converter = FileConverter.class)
   public File file;
-
+  
+//  @Parameter(names = "-uri")
+//  public URI uri;
+  
   @Parameter(names = "-listStrings")
   public List<String> listStrings;
 
@@ -38,4 +42,5 @@ public class ArgsConverter {
 
   @Parameter(names = "-listBigDecimals")
   public List<BigDecimal> listBigDecimals;
+  
 }