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How to use the eclipse launch configuration string prompt for two values?

Prompting the user in the Eclipse external tool run configuration is simple enough:

${string_prompt:"Enter a string":"DefaultString"}

However, is there a way for me to configure my run configuration to use this as two separate arguments to my external tool? Something that would result in:

my.exe --arg1=${string_prompt1} --arg2=${string_prompt1}

I definitely don't want to push this logic into the application, itself. I just want to simplify a local test build configuration. Any ideas?

Solution

  • You can have only one prompt in which you can pass as many arguments as you want separated by spaces. The strings you provide with the prompt will be assigned to args variable of public static void main method of your class.

    To provide defaults for more than a argument, you could use something like this:

    ${string_prompt:"Enter two values separated by space":firstDefault secondDefault}

    If you need to repeat your test many times with same parameters, you can think about using a saved run configuration in which you fix your parameters (just list them into "Program arguments" of "Arguments" tab).