Autocompletion feature for Terminal

[hatspencer]

Hi!

I was missing an autocompletion feature from the Terminal for a long time, so I just forked the GitHub project and added a simple extension. In short, I just added a new attribute with a method expression, and in that method I return the autocompleted command, if applicable. The value of the input box is replaced in case of completion.

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<p:terminal id="terminal" 
	commandHandler="#{terminalController.handleCommand}"
	autoCompleteHandler="#{terminalController.autoCompleteCommand}" />

I've just bound this to TAB. I think it is a good start, it feels really terminal-ish I saw there is an open issue for this feature, here Cagatay refers implementing something similar to textarea. What do you think?

P.S.: In my implementation I created a new class which extends the code of org.primefaces.component.terminal.Terminal.java. I did so because Terminal.java is generated. Noob question incoming: am I not able to change the source of that class?

[sudheer]

You can add the new attributes in terminal.xml file and maven-jsf plugin will generate Terminal.java file.Then you can create a PR with all the changes.