[Babeldoc-devel] Question about tool constructor architecture

[David G. <dg...@co...>]

I noticed that the constructor for Scanner looks like (or, actually, IS):

  public Scanner(String[] args) {
    super("scanner", I18n.get("scanner.Scanner.toolDescription"), args);
  }

which I believe causes the parent BabelDocCommand class constructor to 
initialize the command line properly and then invoke execute() on Scanner.  
What seems to be happening, though, is that, should any private variables be 
initialized at declaration (private boolean test = false;), and then set to 
true in execute(), it will be false again in finishUp().  Apparently, not all 
variables are initialized at the time that the constructor is called, and so 
the variables are initialized sometime after execute() is executing...

This caused me some intersting moments in trying to have the Scanner class end 
elegantly after displaying the help screen.  I assume that all the other 
tools use the same architecture.  Is this a known side effect?


David

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