[Windows] Cannot interact with yeoman commands run on play console

[milliondreams]

After #20 we now support yeoman commands on windows too.

We still have an issue when a yeoman command requires additional input from user.

[pschulz]

@milliondreams can you reproduce the issue on Linux or Mac as well or does it work there?
FYI tested with

yo -version
1.0.0-rc.1.4

[milliondreams]

It works on linux... not sure about Mac though

[pschulz]

Okay, could you please give some more information to the play, sbt and yo
versions involved?
Tested at my side with:

play --version
sbt launcher version 0.12.2

play
[...]
play! 2.1.2 (using Java 1.7.0_25 and Scala 2.10.0),

yo --version
1.0.0-rc.1.4

[milliondreams]

I use,
Play - 2.1.1 (2.2 from the source build)
Yo - 1.0.4

sbt is 0.12.2 for Play 2.1.1 and 0.13 for 2.2.

I use sbt rather than the play command, can that be an issue. Will checkout later today....

[pschulz]

Do you have any news from the sbt list?

[pschulz]

I found some hints on the net to this issue.
It could be an error in jline, which is also used by sbt and scala itself.
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7703
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7061
jline/jline2#103

[milliondreams]

Patrick, are you working on this? Probably you could post to jline and sbt user groups and get a response. I am sorry, am not much help on this. I don't use a Windows system. Will try to rope in other help too!

[potgieterdl]

Same issue with play 2.2.1, sbt 0.13.

Fresh install of everything on windows 7. Cant interact with console at all. Cant even get out of it. need to kill window.

[pietrotull]

I get the same. Win 8, Play 2.2.2, scala 2.10.3, java 1.7. Same thing happens on both cmd & powershell. No way to interact with the console. Seems quite old, any news on this?

[milliondreams]

@pietrotull @potgieterdl

There have been some updates on this in JLine. In the Scala REPL issue here -
https://issues.scala-lang.org/browse/SI-7703

It should now work with if you use -Djline.WindowsTerminal.directConsole as the JVM param in the script to start SBT.

Can you confirm this? and will be great if you could send a pull request adding a note to the documentation on how to get this working for windows.

[pietrotull]

Thanks for the tip. I'll give it a go when I get back to office next week.

[milliondreams]

@pietrotull @potgieterdl Please give the latest release 0.7.0 a try.
Do use -Djline.WindowsTerminal.directConsole while starting sbt.

[sweepy84]

Also not working for me unfortunately, even with -Djline.WindowsTerminal.directConsole. Any ideas? It is simply unusable.