number format exception - For input string: "35,9"

Question

I need to generate random values and print them.

But it throws an Exception:

 java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: "35,9"
    at sun.misc.FloatingDecimal.readJavaFormatString(FloatingDecimal.java:1241)
    at java.lang.Double.parseDouble(Double.java:540)
    at com.epam.lab.model.sweets.SweetsGenerator.paramFormatter(SweetsGenerator.java:71)
    at com.epam.lab.model.sweets.SweetsGenerator.next(SweetsGenerator.java:55)
    at com.epam.lab.model.NewYearGift.generate(NewYearGift.java:40)
    at com.epam.lab.controller.GiftController.generateGift(GiftController.java:86)
    at com.epam.lab.controller.GiftController.showGiftContent(GiftController.java:213)
    at com.epam.lab.view.Application.process(Application.java:89)
    at com.epam.lab.view.Application.estimateUserInput(Application.java:49)
    at com.epam.lab.view.Application.start(Application.java:43)
    at com.epam.lab.view.Main.main(Main.java:19)

It happens only here:

public Sweets next() {      
    Sweets current = instances[rand.nextInt(instances.length)];
    double sugarParam = paramFormatter(randomSugarLevel(), PRECISION);
    double weightParam = paramFormatter(randomWeight(), PRECISION);

    try {
        return (Sweets) current.getClass()
                .getConstructor(double.class, double.class)
                .newInstance(sugarParam, weightParam);
        // Report programmer errors at run time:
    } catch (Exception e) {
        LOG.error("RuntimeException", e);
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
}


private double paramFormatter(double sugarParam, DecimalFormat df) {
    return Double.parseDouble(df.format(sugarParam));
}


private double randomWeight() {
    return WEIGHT_MIN + (Math.random() * ((WEIGHT_MAX - WEIGHT_MIN) + 1));
}


private double randomSugarLevel() {
    return SUGAR_MIN + (Math.random() * ((SUGAR_MAX - SUGAR_MIN) + 1));
}

And precision is constant:

private static final DecimalFormat PRECISION = new DecimalFormat("#.#");

But all looks ok.

How to solve this issue?

Answer 1

The input string contains , instead of .. Replace the , with . to get rid of the exception. Ideally, the input should be 35.9 and not 35,9.

If you are using , as the decimal separator, then you could use the DecimalFormatSymbols to replace , as the decimal separator.

The following code demonstrates the use of DecimalFormatSymbols class:

DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#.#");
DecimalFormatSymbols dfs = DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance();
dfs.setDecimalSeparator(',');
df.setDecimalFormatSymbols(dfs);
System.out.println(df.parse("35,9"));

The above code prints 35.9