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Java Local Development Environments Advanced Tooling Refactoring

Local Development Environments - Refactoring

I receive a compiler error saying that it cannot recognize getSongForArtist. However, I don't receive any error message in my local SDE.

What could be the problem?

3 Answers

Hi Ethan,

What have you done here; changed code in IntelliJ IDEA, then pasted that into the online compiler? Where is the error occurring?

Can you post your code?

Steve.

Oh I thought I attached my code from the problem. This is the snapshot.

package com.teamtreehouse;

import com.teamtreehouse.model.SongBook;
import com.teamtreehouse.model.Song;

import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.util.ArrayDeque;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Queue;

public class KaraokeMachine {
  private SongBook mSongBook;
  private BufferedReader mReader;
  private Map<String, String> mMenu;
  private Queue<Song> mSongRequestQueue;

  public KaraokeMachine(SongBook songBook) {
    mSongBook = songBook;
    mReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    mSongRequestQueue = new ArrayDeque<Song>();
    mMenu = new HashMap<String, String>();
    mMenu.put("add", "Add a new song to the song book");
    mMenu.put("choose", "Choose a song to sing!");
    mMenu.put("play", "Play next song in the queue");
    mMenu.put("quit", "Give up. Exit the program.");
  }

  private String promptAction() throws IOException { 
    System.out.printf("There are %d songs available and %d in the queue. Your options are: %n",
                      mSongBook.getSongCount(),
                      mSongRequestQueue.size());
    for (Map.Entry<String, String> option : mMenu.entrySet()) {
      System.out.printf("%s - %s %n", 
                        option.getKey(), 
                        option.getValue());
    }
    System.out.printf("What do you want to do:  ");
    String choice = mReader.readLine();
    return choice.trim().toLowerCase();
  }

  public void run () {
    String choice ="";
    do {
      try {
        choice = promptAction();
        switch(choice) {
          case "add":
            Song song = promptNewSong();
            mSongBook.addSong(song);
            System.out.printf("%s added! %n%n", song);
               //TODO: Add a new song
            break;
          case "play":
            playNext();
          case "choose":
            String artist = promptArtist();
            Song artistSong = promptSongForArtist(artist);
            mSongRequestQueue.add(artistSong);
          //TODO: Add to a song queue
            System.out.printf("You chose: %s %n", artistSong);
            break;
          case "quit":
            System.out.println("Thanks for playing!");
            break;
          default:
            System.out.printf("Unknown choice: '%s'. Try again. %n%n%n", 
                              choice);
        }
      } catch(IOException ioe) {
        System.out.println("Problem with input");
        ioe.printStackTrace();
      }                            
    } while(!choice.equals("quit"));
    }

  private Song promptNewSong() throws IOException {
      System.out.print("Enter the artist's name: ");
      String artist = mReader.readLine();
      System.out.print("Enter the title: ");
      String title = mReader.readLine();
      System.out.print("Enter the video URL: ");
      String videoUrl = mReader.readLine();
      return new Song(artist, title, videoUrl);
    }

  private String promptArtist() throws IOException {
    System.out.println("Available artists:");
    List<String> artists = new ArrayList<>(mSongBook.getArtists());
    int index = promptForIndex(artists);
    return artists.get(index);

  } 

  private Song promptSongForArtist(String artist) throws IOException {
    List<Song> songs = mSongBook.getSongForArtist(artist);
    List<String> songTitles = new ArrayList<>();
    for (Song song : songs) {
      songTitles.add(song.getTitle());
    }
    System.out.printf("Available songs for %s %n", artist);
    int index = promptForIndex(songTitles);
    return songs.get(index);
  }


  private int promptForIndex(List<String> options) throws IOException {
      int counter = 1;
      for (String option : options) {
        System.out.printf("%d.) %s %n", counter, option);
        counter++;
      }
      System.out.print("Your choice:  ");
      String optionAsString = mReader.readLine();
      int choice = Integer.parseInt(optionAsString.trim());
      return choice -1;
    }

   public void playNext() {
     Song song = mSongRequestQueue.poll();
     if (song == null) {
       System.out.println("Sorry there are no songs in the queue." + 
                          "  Use choose from the menu to add some");
     } else {
       System.out.printf("%n%n%n open %s to hear %s by %s %n%n%n",
                         song.getVideoUrl(),
                         song.getTitle(),
                         song.getArtist());
     }
   }

  }

Difficult to say what the issue is.

One observation would be that the method you are calling on mSongBook which you have called getSongForArtist returns a sorted list, i.e. multiple songs. I can't see what you've called that method but it may well be called getSongsForArtist, as in the plural, since it returns more than one song.

Your compiler is complaining that the method doesn't exist so best check it does first!

If that doesn't help, can you let us know what you've done, what the error is, where it occurs etc.

Steve.