This issue seems related to GRADLE-1147. Assuming we by "character input to interactive child processes" mean the ability to get user input from the console, we seem to have two facts affecting the ability to do this in the current 1.0m3 release:

• As per GRADLE-1147, the only way to not have the gradle progress logging pollute your console prompt when prompting for user input is to run java >= 6 (the System.console() call and the Console class are java 6 artifacts) and use the Console class returned by the System.console() call.
• The System.console() call returns null if running using "gradle --daemon".

So if you run java 6 and do not run using --daemon, there is a good way for doing this. You can also run your gradle build using "gradle -q", but as that is not the default I don't find this solution quite acceptable either. The issue is exasperated by the fact that "--daemon" is (as far as I understand) going to be the default in future releases of gradle.

We won't switch on the daemon as the default until there is some way to get input into the daemon process. The plan is that you will be able to read input via System.in regardless of which UI is used to launch the build.

In the case of launching from the command-line, input from the command-line terminal will be made available in the daemon process.

For GUI interfaces, we will provide some way for tooling api clients to provide input to be made available in the daemon process. It is then up to each GUI to make use of this.

Any updates for this issue? Can't seem to find any on the forums or in JIRA for the current (m8) release and this is still an issue for us. Also with the current release being daemon friendly to the point where all our devs are using daemon as default, getting character input from the daemon process has become a priority.

Any hope for this being resolved?

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This is still an active request.

+1, this is still and active request.

The Gradle GUI has been deprecated and is scheduled to be removed with Gradle 4.0. We are not going to work on this issue anymore.

This issue is not about the "gradle gui" but rather about the console "user interface", i.e. about giving the build user the ability to interact with the console build in a clean way.

@Matias Thanks for clarifying. The title was fairly misleading. I am marking this issue as duplicate of https://issues.gradle.org/browse/GRADLE-1147.