How to interrupt java.util.Scanner nextLine call

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This article describes an approach to avoiding blocking when reading. It gives the code snippet, which you could amend as I indicate in a comment.

import java.io.*;
import java.util.concurrent.Callable;

public class ConsoleInputReadTask implements Callable<String> {
  public String call() throws IOException {
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(
        new InputStreamReader(System.in));
    System.out.println("ConsoleInputReadTask run() called.");
    String input;
    do {
      System.out.println("Please type something: ");
      try {
        // wait until we have data to complete a readLine()
        while (!br.ready()  /*  ADD SHUTDOWN CHECK HERE */) {
          Thread.sleep(200);
        }
        input = br.readLine();
      } catch (InterruptedException e) {
        System.out.println("ConsoleInputReadTask() cancelled");
        return null;
      }
    } while ("".equals(input));
    System.out.println("Thank You for providing input!");
    return input;
  }
}

You could either use this code directly, or write a new closable InputStream class, wrapping up the logic described in this article.

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