"Option Names as Option Values" not working

[clausnagel]

I would like one of my options to be able to take option names as the parameter value. The release info of version 4.4.0 indicates that the parser does no longer assign values that match an option name to an option, unless the value is in quotes. I am happy to use quotes for this purpose.

However, the following example code copied from the online documentation does not work for me:

class App {
    @Option(names = "-x") String x;
    @Option(names = "-y") String y;

    public static void main(String... args) {
        App app = new App();
        new CommandLine(app).setTrimQuotes(true).parseArgs(args);
        System.out.printf("x='%s', y='%s'%n", app.x, app.y);
    }
}

When passing -x="-y" to the code, I do not get the expected result (-y is assigned to x) but the following error is thrown:

picocli.CommandLine$MissingParameterException: Expected parameter for option '-x' but found '-y'

I tested with 4.4.0 and 4.5.2. What am I doing wrong?

[clausnagel]

Sorry, discussed in #1125.