Question

i want to take input password through ant, i tried using <input message but it displays the character/password entered.

Instead of displaying the characters entered i want to display the ‘*’ character can anybody tell me how it is possible.

Thanks,
rbhawsar

Answer 1

Since Ant 1.8 you can specify an additional <handler/> tag inside of the <input/> tag with type “secure”:

<target name="test.input">
  <input message="Type password:" addproperty="pwd">
    <handler type="secure" />
  </input>
  <echo message="Password is: ${pwd}" />
</target>

See the documentation. It is even possible to write your own input handler class.

I tested it inside a Windows DOS box and it worked. But it failed to work inside a cygwin xterm session (the characters are shown).