Updated implementation of the getPassword() method and added support for "fuzzy" arg lookup in the getValue() method in the Console class

Author: pborissow

src/javaxt/utils/Console.java

@@ -203,46 +203,7 @@ public static String getUserName(String prompt){
    *  entered.
    */
     public static String getPassword(String prompt) {
-
-        String password = "";
-        ConsoleEraser consoleEraser = new ConsoleEraser();
-        System.out.print(prompt);
-        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
-        consoleEraser.start();
-        try {
-            password = in.readLine();
-        }
-        catch (IOException e){
-            System.out.println("Error trying to read your password!");
-            //System.exit(1);
-        }
-
-        consoleEraser.halt();
-        System.out.print("\b");
-
-        return password;
-    }
-
-
-  //**************************************************************************
-  //** ConsoleEraser Class
-  //**************************************************************************
-    private static class ConsoleEraser extends Thread {
-        private boolean running = true;
-        public void run() {
-            while (running) {
-                System.out.print("\b ");
-                try {
-                    Thread.currentThread().sleep(1);
-                }
-                catch(InterruptedException e) {
-                    break;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-        public synchronized void halt() {
-            running = false;
-        }
+        return new String(System.console().readPassword(prompt));
     }
 
 
@@ -282,13 +243,23 @@ public static HashMap<String, String> parseArgs(String[] args){
   //**************************************************************************
   /** Returns a value for a given set of command line arguments
    *  @param args HashMap of command line inputs generated by parseArgs()
-   *  @param keys One or more keywords to search (e.g. "-threads", "-t")
+   *  @param keys One or more keywords to search (e.g. "--threads", "-t")
    */
     public static Value getValue(HashMap<String, String> args, String ...keys){
         for (String key : keys){
             if (args.containsKey(key)){
                 return new Value(args.get(key));
             }
+            else{
+
+              //Fuzzy match (user passed one hyphen instead of two)
+                if (key.startsWith("-")){
+                    String k = key.substring(1);
+                    if (k.startsWith("-") && args.containsKey(k)){
+                        return new Value(args.get(k));
+                    }
+                }
+            }
         }
         return new Value(null);
     }