I am trying to use JConsole but I am getting some weird results ...

First up: my environment:

bsh-2.0b4.jar

Eclipse

java version "1.7.0_55"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.4.7) (7u55-2.4.7-1ubuntu1)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.51-b03, mixed mode)

uname -a
Linux michael-desktop 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:30:00
UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


The console starts up and I get: 'JCE (type 'quit' to exit): '

Anything I type is directly echoed but the "readline" loop never loops.

Here is the code at this point:

package com.main;

import java.awt.Color;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;

import javax.swing.JFrame;

import bsh.util.GUIConsoleInterface;
import bsh.util.JConsole;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // new Thread(new Application()).start();
        // define a frame and add a console to it
        JFrame frame = new JFrame("JConsole example");

        JConsole console = new JConsole();

        frame.getContentPane().add(console);
        frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
        frame.setSize(600, 400);

        frame.setVisible(true);

        inputLoop(console, "JCE (type 'quit' to exit): ");

        System.exit(0);
    }

    /**
     * Print prompt and echos commands entered via the JConsole
     *
     * @param console
     *            a GUIConsoleInterface which in addition to basic input and
     *            output also provides coloured text output and name
completion
     * @param prompt
     *            text to display before each input line
     */
    private static void inputLoop(GUIConsoleInterface console, String
prompt) {
        Reader input = console.getIn();
        BufferedReader bufInput = new BufferedReader(input);

        String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");

        console.print(prompt, Color.BLUE);

        String line;
        try {
            while ((line = bufInput.readLine()) != null) {
                console.print("You typed: " + line + newline, Color.ORANGE);
                if (line.equals("quit"))
                    break;
                console.print(prompt, Color.BLUE);
            }
            bufInput.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

    }
}

So I changed the code to use the reader directly at which point I seem to
be getting the encoded utf8 escape sequences for anything I type?

Here is the input vs output:

JCE (type 'quit' to exit): hello
You typed: \
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: u
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 6
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 8
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: \
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: u
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 6
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 5
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: \
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: u
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 6
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: c
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: \
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: u
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 6
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: c
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: \
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: u
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 6
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: f
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: \
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: u
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: 0
JCE (type 'quit' to exit): You typed: a
JCE (type 'quit' to exit):

Here is the code for the new inputloop:

private static void inputLoop(GUIConsoleInterface console, String prompt) {
        Reader input = console.getIn();
        BufferedReader bufInput = new BufferedReader(input);

        String newline = System.getProperty("line.separator");

        console.print(prompt, Color.BLUE);

        char buffer[] = new char[1];
        String line;
        try {
            while (input.read(buffer)!=-1) {
                console.print("You typed: " + new String(buffer) + newline,
Color.ORANGE);
//                if (line.equals("quit"))
//                    break;
                console.print(prompt, Color.BLUE);
            }
            bufInput.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Is the sample code I am working with only valid for an older version? Is
this a bug?

I got the starting code from:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1255373/create-a-command-console

Thanks for any help in getting myself straight...

-Mike
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