Class App

java.lang.Object

org.owasp.dependencycheck.App

public class App
extends Object

The command line interface for the DependencyCheck application.

Author:

Jeremy Long

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
	App()	Builds the App object.
protected	App(Settings settings)	Builds the App object; this method is used for testing.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
protected String	ensureCanonicalPath(String path)	Takes a path and resolves it to be a canonical & absolute path.
static void	main(String[] args)	The main method for the application.
protected void	populateSettings(CliParser cli)	Updates the global Settings.
int	run(String[] args)	Main CLI entry-point into the application.

Methods inherited from class Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

App

public App()

Builds the App object.

App

protected App(Settings settings)

Builds the App object; this method is used for testing.

Parameters:

settings - the configured settings

Method Details

main

public static void main(String[] args)

The main method for the application.

Parameters:

args - the command line arguments

run

public int run(String[] args)

Main CLI entry-point into the application.

Parameters:

args - the command line arguments

Returns:

the exit code to return

populateSettings

protected void populateSettings(CliParser cli)
                         throws InvalidSettingException

Updates the global Settings.

Parameters:

cli - a reference to the CLI Parser that contains the command line arguments used to set the corresponding settings in the core engine.

Throws:

InvalidSettingException - thrown when a user defined properties file is unable to be loaded.

ensureCanonicalPath

protected String ensureCanonicalPath(String path)

Takes a path and resolves it to be a canonical & absolute path. The caveats are that this method will take an Ant style file selector path (../someDir/**\/*.jar) and convert it to an absolute/canonical path (at least to the left of the first * or ?).

Parameters:

path - the path to canonicalize

Returns:

the canonical path