The ideal way to resolve this would be to
reporting this to the maintainers of org.python.core.PySystemState
and asking them to fix such reflective access going forward.
If the default mode permits illegal reflective access, however, then
it’s essential to make that known so that people aren’t surprised when
this is no longer the default mode in a future release.
From one of the threads on the mailing list :
–illegal-access=permit
This will be the default mode for JDK 9. It opens every package in
every explicit module to code in all unnamed modules, i.e., code on
the class path, just as –permit-illegal-access does today.
The first illegal reflective-access operation causes a warning to be
issued, as with –permit-illegal-access, but no warnings are issued
after that point. This single warning will describe how to enable
further warnings.
–illegal-access=deny
This disables all illegal reflective-access operations except for
those enabled by other command-line options, such as –add-opens.
This will become the default mode in a future release.
Warning messages in any mode can be avoided, as before, by the judicious use of the –add-exports and –add-opens options.
Hence a current temporary solution available is to use –add-exports as the VM arguments as mentioned in the docs :
–add-exports module/package=target-module(,target-module)*
Updates module to export package to target-module, regardless of
module declaration. The target-module can be all unnamed to export to
all unnamed modules.
This would allow the target-module to access all public types in package. In case you want to access the JDK internal classes which would still be encapsulated, you would have to allow a deep reflection using the –add-opens argument as:
–add-opens module/package=target-module(,target-module)*
Updates module to open package to target-module, regardless of module
declaration.
In your case to currently accessing the java.io.Console, you can simply add this as a VM option –
–add-opens java.base/java.io=ALL-UNNAMED
Also, note from the same thread as linked above
When deny becomes the default mode then I expect permit to remain supported for at least one release so that developers can continue to migrate their code. The permit, warn, and debug modes will, over time, be removed, as will the –illegal-access option itself.
So it’s better to change the implementation and follow the ideal solution to it.
DMelt seems to use Jython and this warning is something that the Jython maintainers will need to address. There is an issue tracking it here:
http://bugs.jython.org/issue2582