Play Framework prompt override

[thisismana]

I'm having troubles enabling your plugin in a play project. In our library project, it works as described. But for the play project, I always get the default prompt.

plugin.sbt

addSbtPlugin("com.typesafe.play" % "sbt-plugin" % "2.5.4")

addSbtPlugin("com.scalapenos" % "sbt-prompt" % "1.0.0")

build.sbt

lazy val root = (project in file("."))
  .enablePlugins(PlayScala)
  .settings(promptTheme := ScalapenosTheme)

I tried moving the promptTheme to the root level of the sbt file, but no effect. Am I missing something? The prompt stays at play's? default [helloWorld] $.

I also tried to register it as a global sbt plugin.

[agemooij]

Unfortunately both plugins try to set the same SBT setting and obviously the Play one wins, probably due to fact that SBT loads the Play plugin after it loads the sbt-prompt plugin.

I don't think I can do much to fix this in the plugin itself. This is not something that is easily worked around from the plugin level since the order in which the plugin is loaded relative to other plugins that it doesn't depend upon is undetermined AFAIK.

A project-level workaround could be to enable both plugins and then manually set the shell prompt to the one from the sbt-prompt plugin.

Could you try the following line in your project definition?:

shellPrompt := (state ⇒ promptTheme.value.render(state))

You might need to add the following import:

import com.scalapenos.sbt.prompt.SbtPrompt.autoImport._

This is straight from the sbt-prompt plugin. My theory is that repeating it in the project itself makes sure that you overwrite the prompt set by the Play plugin.

Let me know wether this works.

[orendain]

Just a headsup that:
shellPrompt := (state ⇒ promptTheme.value.render(state))
worked fine. SbtPrompt displayed over Play's.

[agemooij]

Thanks for the heads up!