Don't prompt for password if it was passed as argument

[bramp]

This is a feature request. I would like to accept a password as a argument, or if it's missing prompt for it. This would work in a similar way to "mysql -p", for example:

$ mysql -p
Enter password: 
...

or

$ mysql -pSomething
...

[nikolavp]

Isn't this what you are looking for? Note that i recently did some "patching" work on the way the prompting works in a separate project.

Maybe this is not included in the documentation and is not clear enough?

[jeremysolarz]

@cbeust hm the request seems valid

A call like this

public class Password {
    public static class ArgsPassword {
        @Parameter(names = "-password", description = "Connection password", password = true)
        private String password;
    }

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        ArgsPassword arg = new ArgsPassword();
        JCommander jc = new JCommander(arg);
        jc.parse("-password", "test");
    }
}

still asks for the password.

[cbeust]

Agreed.

[triceo]

@jeremysolarz This issue is assigned to you - are you working on it? If not, I may take a stab at it.

[jeremysolarz]

Yes, please! 😄

[triceo]

@jeremysolarz PR submitted. Feel free to review or let me know if I should ask someone else.