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Java Local Development Environments Advanced Tooling Finishing TreeStory

java.lang.NullPointerException (Look around Prompter.java line 81)

The code runs perfectly on my local environment, but once I coy it over to your editor I get this exception. Where's the bug?

com/teamtreehouse/Main.java
package com.teamtreehouse;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String story = "Thanks __name__ for helping me out.  You are really a __adjective__ __noun__ and I owe you a __noun__.";
        Prompter prompter = new Prompter();
        Template tmpl = new Template(story);
        prompter.run(tmpl);
    }
}
com/teamtreehouse/Prompter.java
package com.teamtreehouse;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
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);
            System.out.printf("Your TreeStory:%n%n%s", tmpl.render(results));
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("There was a problem prompting for words");
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(0);
        }
    }

    /**
     * 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;
    }


    /**
     * 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 {
        boolean censored = false;
        String input = "";
        while (!censored) {
            censored =true;
            if (phrase.startsWith("a"))
                System.out.printf("Please enter an %s  :", phrase);
            else
                System.out.printf("Please enter a %s  :", phrase);
            input = mReader.readLine().trim();
            for (String word : mCensoredWords) {
                if (word.contentEquals(input)) {
                    censored = false;
                    System.out.println("Watch your mouth! %n");
                    break;
                }
            }
        }
        return input;
    }
}
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

1 Answer

In your promptForWord() method have you tried removing the .trim() off of the line:
input = mReader.readLine().trim(); and adding it back on the line: if (word.contentEquals(input)) { // if(word.contentEquals(input.trim())){

Something to try.

Well I just moved the trim function to the condition statement and I got the exception on that line now. So I tried removing the trim function completely to find that exception! Bummer! java.lang.NullPointerException (Look around String.java line 1066)