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Java Local Development Environments Advanced Tooling Finishing TreeStory

Karin Fernandez
Karin Fernandez
12,670 Points

TreeStory Challenge task issues

Hello, I'm going crazy trying to solve this challenge. This is the error I'm getting:

./com/teamtreehouse/Main.java:11: error: unreported exception IOException; must be caught or declared to be thrown Prompter myPrompter= new Prompter();

./com/teamtreehouse/Main.java:14: error: unreported exception IOException; must be caught or declared to be thrown myPrompter.promptForWords(tmpl);

Even when trying to solve this errors, a NullPointerException error shows up. I tried the same answers as other students, and always encounter errors. I don't know how to solve it, on my IDE is working perfect. Hope someone can help me. Thanks

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

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

public class Main {

    public static void main(String[] args){

        Prompter myPrompter= new Prompter();
        String story = "Thanks __name__ for helping me out.  You are really a __adjective__ __noun__ and I owe you a __noun__.";
        Template tmpl = new Template(story);
        myPrompter.promptForWords(tmpl);
        try{
          myPrompter.run(tmpl);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }


    }
}
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.*;


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

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

    private void loadCensoredWords() throws IOException {
        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) throws IOException {
        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 answers = tmpl.render(results);
        System.out.printf("Your TreeStory:%n%n%s", answers);
    }

    /**
     * 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>();
        String word="";
        for (String phrase : tmpl.getPlaceHolders()) {
            try{
                word = promptForWord(phrase);
            }catch(IOException ioe){
                ioe.printStackTrace();
            }

            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 entryWord="";
        do{
            System.out.printf("Please enter your word for %s: %n", phrase);
            try{
                entryWord = mReader.readLine();
            } catch (IOException ioe){
                ioe.printStackTrace();
            }
        }while(mCensoredWords.contains(entryWord.toLowerCase().trim()));

        return entryWord.trim();

    }
}
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

2 Answers

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,413 Points

Two things: 1) you don't have to call on promptForWords() in main(), run(template) will do that for you so you are currently promoting for the words twice. 2) You're missing Task 1: adding a method to Prompter that asks the user for a story template and use that instead of a hard-coded string.