BshConsole

A BeanShell console with history, vars/commands completion and more...

Relationship with Beanshell

This project is not a beanshell fork. Beanshell is the best Java interpreter out there, but it missed a modern command line console with arrows handling, history, auto-completion etc. BshConsole wishes to fill this gap.

Please note that BshConsole uses a specialization of the standard bsh.Interpreter, but it should be completely compatible. If you notice any difference in parsing/execution behaviour between Beanshell and BshConsole please file an issue.

Distribution

The easiest way to get BshConsole is to download the distribution package from maven central at https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/github/stefanofornari/bsh-console/ (pick the version and search for the tar.gz artifact).

A few instructions

• Tab starts completion suggestions looking into class path for classes or beanshell commands and variables
• ^C discards the input during parsing and try to stop the command in execution when parsing is done and there is code running
• ^Z send the current execution command in background so that you can keep typing new commands; an identifier of the task is displayed in the status bar until the execution is completed.
• In BshConsole the BeanShell variable bsh.propmt does not control the prompt anymore, use getBshPrompt() instead.
• use cls() to clear the screen (since 1.2.0)

Building from source

You can build BshConsole from source as well, with the following caveat: BshConsole is based on the latest (HEAD/SNAPHOT) of Beanshell 2.1.0; this has not been released yet and is currently (Aug 4th, 2018) available only building from source as a maven snapshot. This prevented to release a version of BshConsole. To overcome this problem, BshConsole uses a released version of a Beanshell snapshot from the fork https://github.com/stefanofornari/beanshell. You should be able to replace a fresh build of the Beanshell jar into /lib without any problem. If you encounter any issues, please open a ticket. To deploy on maven central after releasing: mvn -Prelease-sign-artifacts package deploy -DskipTests