I have shown two senarios below: // setup spark context
val user = readLine("username: ") val pass = System.console.readPassword("password: ") <- null pointer exception here and.... // setup spark context val user = readLine("username: ") val console = System.console <- null pointer exception here val pass = console.readPassword("password: ") thanks, Jem On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:04 AM Akhil Das <ak...@sigmoidanalytics.com> wrote: > Can you paste the code? Something is missing > > Thanks > Best Regards > > On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 3:14 PM, Jem Tucker <jem.tuc...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> In the driver when running spark-submit with --master yarn-client >> >> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 10:23 AM Akhil Das <ak...@sigmoidanalytics.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Where does it returns null? Within the driver or in the executor? I just >>> tried System.console.readPassword in spark-shell and it worked. >>> >>> Thanks >>> Best Regards >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 2:32 PM, Jem Tucker <jem.tuc...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> We have an application that requires a username/password to be entered >>>> from the command line. To screen a password in java you need to use >>>> System.console.readPassword however when running with spark System.console >>>> returns null?? Any ideas on how to get the console from spark? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Jem >>>> >>> >>> >