java.io.Console (was: Is SharedSecrets thread-safe?)

[Alan Bateman]

On 04/01/2021 23:09, Johannes Kuhn wrote:
> :
>
> * 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