RFR: JDK-8080679: Include jline in JDK for Java and JavaScript REPLs

[A. Sundararajan]

*  jdk/make/lib/Lib-jdk.jline.gmk

     has copyright year 2011, 2015 despite being a new file. Any 
specific reason?

* jdk.jline depends on java.desktop. Is that needed by the code by jline 
code? I am asking because Nashorn requires only "compact 1" profile so 
far and so can be used on compact1 embedded platforms. If desktop 
dependency is needed, I guess nashorn has to use it reflectively...

+1 from nashorn point of view.

Thanks,
-Sundar


On Thursday 18 June 2015 07:55 PM, Jan Lahoda wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am proposing to add JLine 2.12.1 into the jdk repository for use by 
> the Java and Nashorn REPLs. Full patch is available here:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlahoda/8080679/webrev.00/full/
>
> To aid the review, I've split this patch into to smaller patches:
> -a patch that only adds unmodified jline sources at appropriate places 
> in the jdk repository:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlahoda/8080679/webrev.00/clean-jline/
>
> -a patch that shows the additional changes I've done:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~jlahoda/8080679/webrev.00/additional/
>
> This split is intended solely to simplify reviewing, my plan is to 
> integrate this as a single patch.
>
> The main additional changes are:
> -plugging the new module, jdk.jline, into the JDK build. Currently, 
> the JLine packages are exported only to jdk.scripting.nashorn (the 
> plan is to also export them to the future jdk.jshell module). (The 
> patch is not adding the dependency from jdk.scripting.nashorn to 
> jdk.jline, though - I expect that to be added when needed.)
> -the sources are re-packaged from package "jline" to "jdk.internal.jline"
> -removing trailing whitespace, adding newlines at the end of the 
> files, encoding characters that are not ASCII
> -avoiding the dependency on another library, jansi, by reimplementing 
> two elements that were used from the other library. These are mainly 
> the changes in WindowsTerminal and ConsoleReader.java. This also 
> includes the WindowsTerminal.cpp native library. The native part is 
> heavily inspired by:
> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~sherman/rl/src/java.base/windows/native/libjava/Console_md.c.html 
>
> As I am not experienced in native programming, comments to the native 
> part would be particularly useful.
> -changes to resolve javac warnings in JLine.
> -tests for some of the added functionality.
>
> Any comments are welcome!
>
> Thanks,
>     Jan