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Bug 514444

Summary:	There must be a way to prompt for passwords in the debugger.
Product:	[Eclipse Project] JDT	Reporter:	Steve Owens <steve>
Component:	Debug	Assignee:	JDT-Debug-Inbox <jdt-debug-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	loskutov
Version:	4.7
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Steve Owens

2017-03-29 16:50:43 EDT

So there is a long standing bug from which this bug is duplicated.  Basically there are at least 70 votes around the bug where Eclipse returns null for System.console() when running the debugger.

The Eclipse team seems to be punting on this issue offering security concerns as an excuse.  Look the real ask is we want a way that we can prompt for passwords that works consistently in both a real console and the debugger.

This article talks about creating a text device http://illegalargumentexception.blogspot.com/2010/09/java-systemconsole-ides-and-testing.html

Perhaps there is a way that the eclipse debugger can offer access to the same sort of abstraction?

Comment 1 Andrey Loskutov

2017-03-29 16:53:33 EDT

*** Bug 514443 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Andrey Loskutov

2017-03-29 16:55:05 EDT

Steve, can you please point to the long standing bug you mentioned?

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2019-10-04 15:49:57 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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