Keystore Password Prompt is broken

[breautek]

Bug Report

Problem

For release signing, passwords can be excluded and the build system will issue a prompt asking for the password.

The build.json password fields when left empty should cause gradle to prompt for the password during build, but an error is thrown instead.

What is expected to happen?

Password prompts to be shown.

What does actually happen?

An error is thrown:

FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.

* Where:
Script '/development/cordova/tests/tp-iri-client/platforms/android/CordovaLib/cordova.gradle' line: 141

* What went wrong:
Failed to create component for 'dialog' reason: java.awt.HeadlessException
> java.awt.HeadlessException (no error message)

* Try:
Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace. Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output. Run with --scan to get full insights.

* Get more help at https://help.gradle.org

BUILD FAILED in 12s

Information

I've debugged this problem and it's because when gradle daemon is enabled, there is no "console", therefore you cannot use a headless (terminal) password prompt.

So to use password prompts, we must turn off headless mode, which will enable GUI password prompt when invoked.

First brought attention from #1020 (comment)

I've already debugged the problem and a PR is incoming shortly...

Command or Code

cordova build android --release

While having a buiild.json file, with password and storePassword as empty strings.

Environment, Platform, Device

Issue was replicated on both Ubuntu & Windows

Version information

Cordova CLI 9
cordova-android 9

Checklist

• I searched for existing GitHub issues
• I updated all Cordova tooling to most recent version
• I included all the necessary information above

[breautek]

General consensus is to remove the keystore prompt feature altogether: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfd8f4c44acf3fc278dda409d2e677ce24ec3a65e34f5b7db5202d5eb%40%3Cdev.cordova.apache.org%3E