IVY-1321 Make Main.run() public

[twogee]

Inspired by #69

[twogee]

This addresses IVY-1321 and IVY-1578

[supertick]

I agree @twogee now that I've seen your change, your solution would be better.
I felt too, adding a new command line option was not the best, but also felt strongly, with minimal work the standalone interface could be supported. I'm glad your change supports the interface without the additional option.

Now perhaps these https://www.google.com/search?q=ivy+programmatic+stackoverflow
can be answered simply with

try {
    CommandLineParser parser = getParser();
    // parse the command line arguments	  
    CommandLine line = parser.parse(args);	         
    ResolveReport  report = Main.run(line, false);
    // iterate through the report
} catch (Exception e) {
    // do something to handle error
}

Thanks.

[twogee]

Actually, you should be able to do

try {
    ResolveReport  report = Main.run(args, false);
    // iterate through the report
} catch (Exception e) {
    // do something to handle error
}

But, I was hasty and the tests still fail. I'll try to rectify that later today.

[twogee]

I'm a bit surprised that StackOverflow does not refer to Apache Confluence

[twogee]

@supertick if you're fine with this PR, please close #69. I will merge this one later.

[supertick]

I would make a default overload which took only a String[] arg to model exactly the Main.main input, but all the rest is perfect, including the better isCli boolean vs silly cli option

ResolveReport report = Main.run(new String[]{ .... exact standalone api ... })

I would leave the Exception throws signature in the overloaded run method...

Thanks for your consideration, work, and mention ;) !
Cheers !

[twogee]

Thanks for bearing with me 😉please see the revised commit.

[supertick]

Looks great !
(had to look up what REPL is - thanks for the heads up)