On 04/01/2021 23:09, Johannes Kuhn wrote:
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* java.io.Console has a nice API - but it only works (at least on
Windows) if there is indeed a console attached. It usually doesn't
work inside an IDE.
Is there an interest to allow IDEs to create their own Console
implementation, exposed through SPI?
I would volunteer to write the spec and a patch, but there should be
some general interest for this - as someone has to sponsor that.
(And as a fair warning: It would be my first bigger contribution to
OpenJDK.)
If you have cycles to explore, prototype, and write-up options then it
could be useful for the discussion. The issue of System::console has
come up once or twice in the context of IDEs. It may be that we don't
need a provide implementation that is located by ServiceLoader, instead
it might be that the JDK just needs something specified to the java
launcher to run it with an alternative Console implementation.
-Alan
