Java tutorial
/** * (c) Copyright 2012 WibiData, Inc. * * See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional * information regarding copyright ownership. * * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. * You may obtain a copy of the License at * * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 * * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and * limitations under the License. */ package org.kiji.examples.phonebook.util; import java.io.BufferedReader; import java.io.Closeable; import java.io.IOError; import java.io.IOException; import java.io.InputStreamReader; import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException; import org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils; /** * A source of input that delivers prompts to the user and reads responses from the console. */ public final class ConsolePrompt implements Closeable { /** The underlying reader instance. */ private BufferedReader mConsoleReader; /** Initialize a ConsolePrompt instance. */ public ConsolePrompt() { try { mConsoleReader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in, "UTF-8")); } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException uee) { // UTF-8 is specified as supported everywhere on Java; should not get here. throw new IOError(uee); } } /** * Display a prompt and then wait for the user to respond with input. * * @param prompt the prompt string to deliver. * @return the user's response. * @throws IOError if there was an error reading from the console. */ public String readLine(String prompt) { System.out.print(prompt); try { return mConsoleReader.readLine(); } catch (IOException ioe) { throw new IOError(ioe); } } /** * Close all underlying resources. */ @Override public void close() { IOUtils.closeQuietly(mConsoleReader); } }