On Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:59:39 GMT, Alan Bateman <al...@openjdk.org> wrote:

>> The `java.io.Console` has several backends: a simple on in `java.base`, a 
>> more convenient one in `jdk.internal.le` (with line-reading based on JLine) 
>> and one for JShell.
>> 
>> The backend based on JLine is proving to be a somewhat problematic - JLine 
>> is very powerful, possibly too powerful and complex for the simple task of 
>> editing a line with no completion, no history, no variables, no commands, 
>> etc. As a consequence, there are inevitable sharp edges in this backend.
>> 
>> The idea in this PR is to replace the use of JLine in the `jdk.internal.le` 
>> backend with a simple escape code interpreter, that only handles a handful 
>> of keys/codes (left/right arrow, home, end, delete, backspace, enter), and 
>> ignores the rest. The goal is to have something simple with less surprising 
>> behavior.
>
> src/java.base/share/classes/module-info.java line 172:
> 
>> 170:         java.rmi,
>> 171:         jdk.charsets,
>> 172:         jdk.internal.le,
> 
> What code in JLine is using shared secrets? I wonder what we need to change 
> to avoid this.

Oops, sorry. I forgot to remove these (qualified export of 
`jdk.internal.access` and `sun.nio.cs`) after a refactoring. Will remove them 
in a next update.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24242#discussion_r2013832440

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