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Java Local Development Environments Advanced Tooling Finishing TreeStory

Kiefer Levine
Kiefer Levine
6,184 Points

"Looks like you didn't present the TreeStory (3)" but I totally did.

I think this is just a case of Craig's test looking for something that I specifically didn't quite do. The code works -- there's no error in the IDE nor a functional error on the site. It displays the test text (assuming the test text is supposed to be two blanks in a sentence). Please help!

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

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

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Prompter prompter = new Prompter();
        System.out.println("Enter a story template! Make sure to put two underscores before and after each word you want to change!");
        String story = null;
        try (BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));){
            story = br.readLine();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(1);
        }
        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<>();
        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);
        }
        presentStory(tmpl, results);
    }

     public void presentStory (Template tmpl, List<String> results) {
        System.out.printf("%n%nYour TreeStory:%n%n%s", tmpl.render(results));
    }

    /**
     * Prompts user for each of the blanks
     *
     * @param tmpl The compiled template
     * @return The user's word choices
     * @throws IOException
     */
    public List<String> promptForWords(Template tmpl) throws IOException {
        List<String> words = new ArrayList<>();
        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) {
        boolean goodWord = false;
        String answer = "";
        int count = 0;
        do  {
            if (count > 0) {
                System.out.println("Hey! No potty language!%n%n%n");
            }
            count++;
            try {
                System.out.printf("Enter a %s for the story!%n", phrase);
                answer = mReader.readLine();
              if (answer == null) { answer = ""; }
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            for (String censoredWord : mCensoredWords) {
                if (!answer.trim().toLowerCase().equals(censoredWord.trim().toLowerCase())){
                    goodWord = true;
                } else { goodWord = false; }
            }
        } while (!goodWord);

        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

1 Answer

You don't need this after your run method.

public void presentStory (Template tmpl, List<String> results) {
        System.out.printf("%n%nYour TreeStory:%n%n%s", tmpl.render(results));
    }

To output the story. You can do so by simply calling the printf inside the run method.

Hope this helps!

Kiefer Levine
Kiefer Levine
6,184 Points

Sorry, lost track of this stuff. Naw, it doesn't change anything. I added that in the hope that a method just for it would trigger whatever flags Craig set up to try the program. I did this without that little method and got the same results.

After these two weeks and getting back to it, I updated IntelliJ and started it up again to see if I can't get this resolved and finish the course. And now it doesn't even work right in the IDE! I get an IOException at the readLine() in PromptForWord(). Same code, different issues. The heck? Please help!