Java is too limited when dealing with the Console (original) (raw)

Brunoais brunoaiss at gmail.com
Sun Nov 13 10:35:07 UTC 2016

Since java 6, a class named Console was created. This class allows reading and writing directly to the console, including getting input without echoing for password purposes.

Unfortunately, that class does not include useful functionality for java programs to work on the console and output formatted text. The feature I miss the most is knowing how many columns I have to type into in order to deliver an easier to read formatted output while avoiding line wraps that are not coded in.

There are other things I miss like having multi-line progress bars (so far I can do single line if it is the last line by using "\r" and re-writing the line).

Other times, it is more user friendly to wait for any key press instead of specifically waiting for "Enter" which will also add more lines to the console.

I did some search and found nothing about this. Why hasn't this been implemented for java code?

More information about the core-libs-dev mailing list