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Sanjay Nair
Courses Plus Student 2,477 Pointsconsole.readLine in not working with eclipse, Could you have on this?
When I try to run the example of eclipse it's not working. but it works on terminal. Can you help how can I run the program on eclipse as well?
2 Answers
Alexander Nikiforov
Java Web Development Techdegree Graduate 22,175 PointsIn Eclipse or other IDE you cannot use Console.readLine, for detailed explanation why, see here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26470972/trying-to-read-from-console-java
In order to prompt user for input in IDE commonly BufferedReader or Scanner are used. For what is better see here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2231369/scanner-vs-bufferedreader
I prefer BufferedReader, well I didn't dig up well Scanner and I know how to mock BufferedReader to test user input in Unit Testing. Here is code example how BufferedReader can be used:
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
BufferedReader bufferedReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String userInputString = "";
try {
userInputString = mBufferedReader.readLine();
} catch (IOException ioe) {
throw new IOException("Problems with reading user input");
}
// here you can use "userInputString"
}
