How to provide user input to java code during Debug mode in Visual Studio Code

Question

I'm using Visual Studio Code to develop some code in Java. I tried a simple code as shown below :

    int no_friends;

    Scanner sc = new Scanner(System.in);

    System.out.println("Enter values");
    no_friends = sc.nextInt();
    System.out.println("Value entered is : " + no_friends);

I placed a breakpoint on the sc.nextInt() line and the debugger successfully stopped this line. However, I did not find a way to give an input to the program while it is in debug mode. Is there a way to pass user input values to the code during debug mode ?

Answer 1

Replace the part in the launch.json with

{
    "type": "java",
    "name": "Debug (Launch)",
    "request": "launch",
    "cwd": "${workspaceFolder}",
    "console": "externalTerminal",
    "stopOnEntry": false,
    "mainClass": "",
    "args": ""
}

Answer 2

Changing the console property to "integratedTerminal" in launch.json fixed the issue for for me.

"console": "integratedTerminal"

Hope that helps.