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Feature Request: Tell Spring Shell to ignore command line arguments

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java, spring
Domain
cli

Research direction

No implementation files or tests are identified in the issue. Start by tracing Spring Shell startup argument parsing alongside Spring Boot external configuration handling; done means configuration arguments remain available to the application without being interpreted as shell commands.

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Context: I am developing a spring shell application. I want to be able to pass Spring ConfigurationProperties via the command line to the application.

Problem: The problem is that if I try to pass the ConfigurationProperties via the command line e.g.:

java -jar myapp.jar --flag1=value1 --flag2=value2

Spring Boot correctly parses --flag1=value1 --flag2=value2 as external configuration but then Spring shell tries to interpret

--flag1=value1 --flag2=value2

as a shell command which it is not.

Please provide a solution to this problem.

SO question: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77462680/how-to-tell-spring-shell-to-not-parse-command-line-arguments-as-shell-commands

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