Eclipse hangs in bazaar operations that require user input

there is a partial workaround (at least in *nix systems), which is the use of ssh-agent/ssh-askapass for sftp connections.

1) Have a look at bzrlib.ui and implements your own get_password
2) Embedding user and password in url will avoid bzr prompting for a password

My Eclipse hung when I had to accept the hostkey for bazaar.launchpad.net - that is similar problem but not related to passing user/pass credentials - I think.

Hi Niklas,
Thanks for your comments,
this is not strictly user/pass input, but is user input.
This is the same problem that happen when ssh ask your passphrase, bzr
spawns a ssh subprocess and this process is the one that waits for
user input.

I'm trying to find a way to solve this issue.

Regards,

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Niklas Andersson
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> My Eclipse hung when I had to accept the hostkey for
> bazaar.launchpad.net - that is similar problem but not related to
> passing user/pass credentials - I think.
>
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> Eclipse hangs in bazaar operations that require user input
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/121936
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> Status in Bazaar Plugin for Eclipse: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Commands that require authentication or unexpected (by bzr-eclipse) input hangs Eclipse.
>
> This happen because there is no way to tell Bazaar the user and password to use from the command line.
>
> There is a Blueprint (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/bzr/+spec/authentication-ring) which (when implemented) should allow bzr-eclipse to execute commands that require authentication.
>

Hi. How's a fix for this issue coming along? We're experiencing it too and it's a roadblock in adopting Bazaar as a VCS : )

Hi Norm,
I wasn't able to get the free time to fix this, also it depends on big changes to the xmloutput plugin.

What problem are you hitting?
Maybe we can find a workaround for it

Regards,

Hi Guillermo,

Sorry for the late response. I wasn't notified by Launchpad that there was a reply in this thread :)
We've decided to stick with our existing Subversion setup for now, so I can't really recall the details of the issue anymore. We will revisit Bazaar with the open sourcing of Launchpad in a few months. If the issue is still open by that time I'll be glad to help you find some workarounds :)

Cheers

The blueprint says it is "implemented" already.

Just wondering though, is it possible to make BzrEclipse use the SSH implementation that is already present with Eclipse? I was thinking having passing an override on the SSH implementation used by Bazaar that calls upon Eclipse instead.

To do that, you would have to do something like jbzr. Right now, bzr-eclipse uses the native installation, so It is getting it's SSH settings from the environment.

In my recent attempts I was unable to reproduce this.