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Java Java Data Structures - Retired Efficiency! Menu UI

John Paige
John Paige
7,436 Points

KaraokeMachine.java - mix of errors

I started off with 12 errors and fixed some of them. It seems that they're all connected to the promptNewSong method.

  package com.teamtreehouse;

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

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.Map;

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

  public KaraokeMachine(SongBook songBook) {
    mSongBook = songBook;
    mReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    mMenu = new HashMap<String, String>();
    mMenu.put("add", "Add a new song to the song book");
                                 mMenu.put("quit", "Give up.  Exit the program");
                                 }

    private String promptAction() throws IOException {
      System.out.printf("there are %d songs available.  Your options are: %n",
                        mSongBook.getSongCount());
      for (Map.Entry<String, String> option : mMenu.entrySet()) {
        System.out.printf("%s - %s %n",
                          option.getKey(),
                          option.getValue());
      }
      System.out.print("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);
         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 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);


     }
     }
   }                              
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m                                                                                                                                     
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m                                                                                                                                         
./com/teamtreehouse/KaraokeMachine.java:65: error: ';' expected                                                                                                           
Picked up JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m
Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx128m                                                                                                                                         
./com/teamtreehouse/KaraokeMachine.java:69: error: illegal start of expression                                                                                            
     private Song promptNewSong() throws IOException {                                                                                                                    
     ^                                                                                                                                                                    
./com/teamtreehouse/KaraokeMachine.java:69: error: ';' expected                                                                                                           
     private Song promptNewSong() throws IOException {                                                                                                                    
                               ^                                                                                                                                          
./com/teamtreehouse/KaraokeMachine.java:69: error: not a statement                                                                                                        
     private Song promptNewSong() throws IOException {                                                                                                                    
                                         ^                                                                                                                                
./com/teamtreehouse/KaraokeMachine.java:69: error: ';' expected                                                                                                           
     private Song promptNewSong() throws IOException {                                                                                                                    
                                                    ^                                                                                                                     
./com/teamtreehouse/KaraokeMachine.java:50: error: cannot find symbol                                                                                                     
           Song song = promptNewSong();                                                                                                                                   
                       ^                                                                                                                                                  
  symbol:   method promptNewSong()                                                                                                                                        
  location: class KaraokeMachine                                                                                                                                          
./com/teamtreehouse/KaraokeMachine.java:76: error: incompatible types: unexpected return value                                                                            
       return new Song(artist, title, videoUrl);                                                                                                                          
              ^                                                                                                                                                           
6 errors   

1 Answer

John Paige
John Paige
7,436 Points

Fixed it! It was a Scope issue. I had somehow wrote the promptNewSong method within the run block.