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Java Local Development Environments Advanced Tooling Finishing TreeStory

Zoltan Humpok
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Zoltan Humpok
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 24,429 Points

My code running well in IntelliJ IDEA, but fails in the test... What's wrong?

It seems that the readLine() method reads 2 inputs first and then at the end there is a null input... How can I fix it?

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

import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Prompter prompter = new Prompter();
        String story = "Thanks __name__ for helping me out.  You are really a __adjective__ __noun__ and I owe you a __noun__.";
        System.out.printf("%s%n", story);
        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);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.out.println("There was a problem prompting for words");
            e.printStackTrace();
            System.exit(0);
        }
        String story = tmpl.render(results);
        System.out.printf("%nYour TreeStory: %n%n%s ", story);
    }

    /**
     * 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 {
        String word = "";
        do {
            System.out.printf("Pleas write a(n) %s :", phrase);
            word = mReader.readLine();

            if (this.mCensoredWords.contains(word)) {
                System.out.println(" This is a censored word! try again! ");
            }

        } while (mCensoredWords.contains(word));

        return word;
    }
}
pseudo-tests.md
#  This is essentially what I am testing 
1.  The user is prompted for a string template (the one with the double underscores in it)

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

2 Answers

Craig Dennis
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Craig Dennis
Treehouse Teacher

Make sure you prompt for the story and not use the provided one. See step #1.

Did you get it solved?

Hi ! first thing : Good work that u did next thing is that > we use ( public ) modifier with the class which contains main method last thing is u did not create class Template ? (I am not sure if there any class called Template )

Zoltan Humpok
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Zoltan Humpok
Front End Web Development Techdegree Student 24,429 Points

Yes I have the Template class too... It was a simple bug or missing info in the bug report of this course tester, I have finally corrected and finished the course for the 4th run, but done! :D