I am getting an odd error message for TreeStory

Question

I have tested this in the IDE and it ran OK. I think that I did not account for whatever test they used. However, I am not sure how to do that. I just know that I cannot get to TreeStory 3 or whatever.

Anyway, the error message is: Use double underscores '' to surround the words in wish you want to prompt for. Enter Your Story: Please write a Testing __first prompt and then second prompt: Please write a first prompt: Be nice, try another word for first prompt Be nice, try another word for first prompt Please write a second prompt: null We cannot compare the words to the censored words entry. Your TreeStory:

Testing PASS_2 and then null

com/teamtreehouse/Main.java

package com.teamtreehouse;

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import java.io.*;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
    // write your code here
        Prompter prompt = new Prompter();
        String story = prompt.promptForStory();
        Template tmpl = new Template(story);
        try {
            prompt.promptForWord(story);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        prompt.run(tmpl);

    }
}

com/teamtreehouse/Prompter.java

package com.teamtreehouse;

import java.io.*;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashSet;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Set;


public class Prompter {
    private BufferedReader mReader;
    private Set<String> mCensoredWords;

    public Prompter() {
        mReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        loadCensoredWords();
    }

    private void loadCensoredWords() {
        mCensoredWords = new HashSet<String>();
        Path file = Paths.get("resources", "censored_words.txt");
        List<String> words = null;
        try {
            words = Files.readAllLines(file);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("Couldn't load censored words");
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        mCensoredWords.addAll(words);
    }

    public void run(Template tmpl) {
        List<String> results = null;
        try {
            results = promptForWords(tmpl);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("There was a problem prompting for words");
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(0);
        }
        String rResults = tmpl.render(results);
        System.out.printf("Your TreeStory:%n%n%s", rResults);
    }

    /**
     * Prompts user for each of the blanks
     *
     * @param tmpl The compiled template
     * @return
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public List<String> promptForWords(Template tmpl) throws IOException {
        List<String> words = new ArrayList<String>();
        for (String phrase : tmpl.getPlaceHolders()) {
            String word = promptForWord(phrase);
            words.add(word);
        }
        return words;
    }

    public String promptForStory() {
        System.out.println("Use double underscores \'__\' to surround the words in wish you want to prompt for.");
        System.out.printf("Enter Your Story:  ");
        String text = null;

        try {
            text = mReader.readLine();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return text;
    }

    /**
     * Prompts the user for the answer to the fill in the blank.  Value is guaranteed to be not in the censored words list.
     *
     * @param phrase The word that the user should be prompted.  eg: adjective, proper noun, name
     * @return What the user responded
     */
    public String promptForWord(String phrase) throws IOException {
        System.out.printf("Please write a %s: ", phrase);
        String answer = "";
        try {
            answer = mReader.readLine();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        if (mCensoredWords == null||answer == null) {
            System.out.println(answer);
            System.out.println("We cannot compare the words to the censored words entry.");
        } else {
            while (mCensoredWords.contains(answer.toLowerCase())) {
                System.out.printf("Be nice, try another word for %s %n", phrase);
                answer = mReader.readLine();
            }
        }
        return answer;
    }
}

pseudo-tests.md

#  This is essentially what I am testing 
1.  The user is prompted for a new string template (the one with the double underscores in it).

  a. The prompter class has a new method that prompts for the story template, and that method is called.

2.  The user is then prompted for each word that has been double underscored.

   a. The answer is checked to see if it is contained in the censored words.
      User is continually prompted until they enter a valid word

3.  The user is presented with the completed story

Answer 1 · 2016-01-31T00:34:15Z

January 31, 2016 12:34am

In the try/catch block, you are prompting for a single word but passing the entire story as a phrase. You don't need to call promptForWord() yourself because the run() method will do that for you. Try it with removing the entire try/catch block and just call prompt.run(tmpl);

Answer 2 · 2016-01-31T01:02:29Z

January 31, 2016 1:02am

I tried it out, and it passed. Thank you.

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