a simple example for C#

[tgavin-dremio]

Adding this C# example based on a few requests for this in stackoverflow. This is just an example to show connecting to Dremio and run a query.

[ArgusLi]

Out of curiosity, is there a reason why a namespace is needed here?

[ArgusLi]

Could these magic numbers be placed outside of the Main function like below?
const string DEFAULT_HOST = "localhost"
This would make them more easy to find and change.

Would a class also be a good way to modularise this information? There would only be one argument when passing these arguments into methods.

[ArgusLi]

I believe splitting main into many smaller methods that are all called in main could lead to more modularity and better readability.

[ArgusLi]

Parsing the command line arguments should fall into a static private method.

[ArgusLi]

This logic assumes that the user will use the command flags correctly. I think a more robust algorithm would be to:

1. Have the method for parsing the command line arguments return a Dictionary <string, string> that has the keys being the command line flags and the values being the value of the flag.
2. When creating the Dictionary, have the initial values be the default values of the flags
3. Loop through the arguments list by each argument
4. Have a null string lastFlag to keep track of the previous command flag
5. Go through the following control structure for each argument:

// Skip if is null or white space
if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(argument))
{
    continue;
}
// Add argument to lastFlag if starts with -
if (argument.StartsWith("-", StringComparison.Ordinal))
{
    lastFlag = argument;
}
// If lastFlag is not null, save the 
else if (lastFlag != null && optionsDic.ContainsKey(lastFlag))
{
    commandLineArguments.Add(lastFlag, argument);
    lastFlag = null;
}

6. Return the dictionary

[ArgusLi]

Creating a separate method for this would modularise and make the code more legible.

[ArgusLi]

Creating a separate method for this would modularise and make the code more legible.

[ArgusLi]

Creating a separate option to disable certificate validation would be more user friendly - the control structure for the arguments list would have to be modified slightly to accept a flag with no value.

[ArgusLi]

Creating a separate method for this would modularise and make the code more legible.

[tgavin-dremio]

Thanks for reviewing @ArgusLi -- I will plan to make this more than just a simple example then :-)

[tgavin-dremio]

Created a number of functions and added a generic command-line args parser