Get Eclipse application arguments

CliUtils.java

/*
 * This content is released under the MIT License (http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT).
 * Copyright (c) 2014 Luca Cesari <luc@cesari.me>
 */

package lucacesari.gists;

import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform;
import org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI;

public class CliUtils {
    private CliUtils() {}

    public static  Map<String, String> getApplicationArguments() {
        final String[] args = Platform.getApplicationArgs();
        if (args.length == 0) {
            return Collections.emptyMap();
        } else {
            final Map<String,String> map = new HashMap<String, String>();
            for (int i = 0; i < args.length; i += 1) {
                if (args[i].charAt(0) == '-') {
                    final String option = args[i].substring(1);
                    String value = "";
                    if (i + 1 < args.length && args[i + 1].charAt(0) != '-') {
                        i += 1;
                        value = args[i];
                    }

                    map.put(option, value);
                }
            }
            return map;
        }
    }
}