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Java Java Objects (Retired) Creating the MVP Prompting for Guesses

Guilherme Rocha
Guilherme Rocha
934 Points
Posted by Guilherme Rocha
Guilherme Rocha
934 Points

I have a IOExeception

I'm trying to code this hangman code with Netbeans 8, but It's returning the following error: error: unreported exception IOException; must be caught or declared to be thrown String guessAsString = reader.readLine();

I'm using BufferedReader and InputStreamReader as Craig posted for another question, but don't works.

import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.InputStreamReader;

public class Prompter { private Game mGame;

public Prompter (Game game) {
    mGame = game;

}

public boolean promptForGuess() {
    InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(System.in);
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader);
    System.out.print("Enter a letter: ");
    String guessAsString = reader.readLine();
    char guess = guessAsString.charAt(0);
    return mGame.applyGuess(guess);

}

}

1 Answer

Jesse Devaney
Jesse Devaney
6,632 Points
Jesse Devaney
Jesse Devaney
6,632 Points

In case the user doesn't enter a string, you have to be able to handle that exception.

first import the IOException class at the top of you class like so, import java.io.*;

You can use a try catch statement now to test to see if an exception is thrown and to handle it accordingly, try { InputStreamReader inputStreamReader = new InputStreamReader(System.in); BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(inputStreamReader); System.out.print("Enter a letter: "); String guessAsString = reader.readLine(); char guess = guessAsString.charAt(0); return mGame.applyGuess(guess); } catch(IOException e) { System.out.println("Your input was invalid"); return promptForGuess(); //Do this to recall the method so they can be prompted again. }