How to give dialog box error if user enters random letters JOptionPane

Question

So i am new to java, and i am trying to use try and catch. For example if i ask how many grapes the user has, and they type bunches of letters, it will show a error dialog, instead of just getting a system error. I was able to do it with a scanner, but not with JOptionPane. I really want a dialog box to appear, that's why i am trying to use JOptionPane.showInputDialog.

Scanner which works...=

import java.util.Scanner;

class test {
    public static void main (String[] args)
    {

        Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);

        System.out.println("How many grapes do u have?");
        int grapes = 1;
        try
        {
            grapes = input.nextInt();
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println("Good job Sherlock you broke the program");
            return;
        }
        int mg;

        if (grapes >= 100)
            mg = 1;

        else
            mg = 2;

        switch (mg){
            case 1: System.out.println("You got a lot of grapes");
                break;
            case 2: System.out.println("You brarely got any grapes");
                break;
        }
    }
}

JOptionPane which doesn't work...

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class bday
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String age = "0";
        try
        {
            age = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What was your age yesterday?");
        }
        catch(Exception e)
        {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Thanks a lot, you broke it. CYA later.");
            return;
        }
        int iage = Integer.parseInt(age);

        String bday = "0";

         try
         {
             bday = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Was yesterday your B-Day? (True or False)");
         }
         catch (Exception e)
         {
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "WHY U MESS UP PROGRAM???.... BYE BYE!!");
            return;
         }
         boolean bage = Boolean.parseBoolean(bday);
        if (bage == true){
            iage += 1;
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "You are now " + iage);
        }
        else if (bage == false){
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Happy unbirthday!");
        }
        if (iage ==10){
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Congrats, double digits!");
        }
        if (iage >19){
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,  "U aint a Teenager");
        }
        else if (iage < 13)
            JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null,  "U aint a Teenager");          

    }
}

Answer 1

You're try/catching the wrong thing. You should place the parse statements in the try block since that is what throws the exception.

e.g., not

    String age = "0";
    try
    {
        age = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What was your age yesterday?");
    }
    catch(Exception e)
    {
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Thanks a lot, you broke it. CYA later.");
        return;
    }
    int iage = Integer.parseInt(age);

but rather:

String age = JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What was your age yesterday?");
try {
  iage = Integer.parseInt(age);
} catch (NumberFormatException nfe) {
  // show error
}  

Also, you should avoid catching Exception but rather should only catch specific exceptions, here NumberFormatException.

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Edit
In comment you ask:

One more question, should i do the same with the boolean?

The boolean type is a bit trickier (in my mind) when it comes to parsing. To see how the Boolean.parseBoolean(...) works, please have a look at the Boolean API, specifically the parseBoolean method. You'll see that it does not throw a NumberFormatException if the text entered does not make sense. The API will tell you what in fact is returned. A try/catch block won't work here. Consider using String's equalsIgnoreCase(...) if you need to trap for errors.