What is the best wrapping strategy ?
- by Riduidel
Hi,
I'm planning to integrate an external tool (ffmpeg in my particular case, but it could be anything, in fact, as lolng as its tasks are long running ones). This tool has a lot of command-line parameters.
For now, I've done to simple things with it, already requiring me a good bunch of class writing, to embed all the information it can return to me.
I now face the even more complex task of having to send it a bunch of parameters and to handle possible errors.
So, what is a best way for that ?
Create classes containing all possible options
Relying upon a reverse equivalent of commons-cli / CliBuilder / OptionParser
Directly write all options from user input
Obiwan Kenobi powers (or anything I don't even know about)
Please notice I do it in an uncommon language (for the sake of me, don't ask me what it is, as it looks like a desperate and sterile union between CoffeeScript and lua), as a consequence, there can be no framework doing what I want in the language I use.
