| New Feature Request - passwordChar on <input > task | New Feature Request - passwordChar on <input > task 2005-05-05 - By Jeffrey E Care
Check the archives, this has been discussed ad-nauseum.
In summary, it's basically impossible to do in a portable, reliable way
without there being native support for this in the VM.
JEC
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Jeffrey E. Care (carej@(protected))
WebSphere Build SWAT Team Lead
WebSphere Build Tooling Lead (Project Mantis)
https://w3.opensource.ibm.com/projects/mantis
Ninju Bohra <ninju_bohra@(protected)> wrote on 05/05/2005 03:31:49 PM:
> Hello all,
>
> I have created some targets that run <sql> tasks and for determing
> the user name & password information to use (for the DB login) I use
> the <input> task, i.e.
>
> <target name="update_build">
> <input addproperty="db.user.name" message="What is your database
name"/>
> <input addproperty="db.password" message="What is your database
> password"/>
> <sql>
> .
> .
> .
> </sql>
> </target>
>
> It would be great to have an optional attribute of the <input> task,
> let's say called passwordChar, that if set would control which
> character(s) to display instead of echoing the keyboard input. So
> you could use
> <input addproperty="db.password" passwordChar="*" message="What
> is your database password"/>
>
> and all that would show up as the user types would a series of *
> (astericks)...
>
> What do you guys think??
>
>
>
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