No Maven output color in netbeans consoles

[albilu]

Apache NetBeans version

Apache NetBeans 18

What happened

Unlike all other main IDES Netbeans is unable to print Maven logs with color.

Netbeans:

IntelliJ IDEA:

How to reproduce

Run a Maven project in Netbeans.

Did this work correctly in an earlier version?

No / Don't know

Operating System

Windows/Linux

JDK

Any

Apache NetBeans packaging

Apache NetBeans provided installer

Anything else

Related issues:
fusesource/jansi#87
https://peter.quantr.hk/2018/12/solved-the-root-cause-why-netbeans-cant-print-colored-text-using-latest-maven/#page-content

Are you willing to submit a pull request?

No

[Chris2011]

Afaik there is also red for warnings which seems incorrect for me. Or maybe it was ant. But afaik red should be errornous stuff and maybe yellow warnings, etc.

[neilcsmith-net]

The workaround is given in the Jansi issue you linked, and also the trade off that introduces (eg. other aspects of output parsing no longer work).

Moving this to a feature request.

[mbien]

I am not planning to implement this, adding Contribution welcome An issue or feature not currently being worked on, but a contribution would be welcomed! label.

[asbachb]

I wonder if it would be useful to have an alternative to the current output panel. For mvnd the output is not optimal as well. When you launch it from the embedded terminal it looks quite good but lacks features like folding (which I actually never used).
Maybe we could introduce an option to execute maven on the terminal?

[Chris2011]

Then we can also have an alternative output panel for git, ant, npm, etc... so I would like to let them as it is, because we already have more than just maven.

[mbien]

the folding is just a UI gimmick. The reason it is there is because NB has to compute the context for links in many situations. If you doing that already you may as well add the folding which is a low hanging fruit once you parse the output.

mvnd integration is fairly rudimentary. Partially because the project itself hasn't stabilized yet. I can't use it in many projects still since it often causes other issues.

[neilcsmith-net]

@Chris2011 well, we could look at an option to run any external process in the terminal rather than the output window - ie. ant and npm, but not git (while using jgit).

[Chris2011]

@neilcsmith-net but then we need real implementation of native terminals also for Windows users w/o using cygwin or anything else. And this is another rabbithole. IMHO.

[neilcsmith-net]

@Chris2011 of course, and for macOS on Arm for that matter. Having a (non-default) option isn't that much of a rabbithole, if someone wanted to work on it.

[asbachb]

I wonder if it's an option to ship with a java terminal emulator like https://github.com/JetBrains/jediterm

[Chris2011]

I wonder if it's an option to ship with a java terminal emulator like https://github.com/JetBrains/jediterm

Ui that looks interesting :D. Maybe will have a look later. Another project......

[neilcsmith-net]

The interesting part of that might be https://github.com/JetBrains/pty4j

[moquinr]

@neilcsmith-net but then we need real implementation of native terminals also for Windows users w/o using cygwin or anything else. And this is another rabbithole. IMHO.

Why can't it use a wsl 2 terminal if it's enabled, like Docker Desktop does... then you have a full linux shell available... not sure if the new Windows Terminal support is a possibility...

[Chris2011]

It is somehow hardcoded that if windows it searches for pty smth like that and if this is not installed like cygwin, you got an info. WSL is not working like pty it is another implementation. I dunno how hard it will be for WSL but if we can reuse some other tools like pty4j or jediterm or whatever, that could be good.

[Chris2011]

We don't need to reinvent the wheel again, luckily. But someone needs to start on it.

[rrangelo]

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