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Tom Quarendon commented on KARAF-5382:
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The effect of this is that, actually, session.readLine isn't a great deal of
use. If you try to use if for non masked input, you get undesirable
highlighting and completion (the LineReader thinks you are trying to type in a
shell command).
The only solution seems to be to create your own LineReader object, (casting
the karaf Terminal to a jline Terminal), or read from the session.getKeyboard
directly, which is rather tedious. However I've had other issues with doing
that which I've been unable to reduce to a simple example (key presses not
being recognised, seems like LineReaders don't clean up properly or something).
> Karaf shell session.readLine consumes backslashes
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> Key: KARAF-5382
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KARAF-5382
> Project: Karaf
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: karaf-shell
> Reporter: Tom Quarendon
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> I don't know what the intended use case is for session.readLine, but the
> behaviour w.r.t backslashes is odd.
> I use is to prompt for a password from the user. So in an action, call
> session.readLine("prompt", '*'). However, if the user's password contains a
> backslash, readLine doesn't return what the user typed, which is mighty
> confusing.
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