Command line progress bar in Java

Question

I have a Java program running in command line mode. I would like to display a progress bar, showing the percentage of job done. The same kind of progress bar you would see u

Answer 1

I have made a percentage progress bare to check the remain download file.

I call the method periodically in my file download to check the total file-size and remaining and present that in %.

It can be used for other task purpose as well.

Test and output example

progressPercentage(0, 1000);
[----------] 0%

progressPercentage(10, 100);
[*---------] 10%

progressPercentage(500000, 1000000);
[*****-----] 50%

progressPercentage(90, 100);
[*********-] 90%

progressPercentage(1000, 1000);
[**********] 100%

Test with for loop

for (int i = 0; i <= 200; i = i + 20) {
    progressPercentage(i, 200);
    try {
        Thread.sleep(500);
    } catch (Exception e) {
    }
}

The method can be easily modified:

public static void progressPercentage(int remain, int total) {
    if (remain > total) {
        throw new IllegalArgumentException();
    }
    int maxBareSize = 10; // 10unit for 100%
    int remainProcent = ((100 * remain) / total) / maxBareSize;
    char defaultChar = '-';
    String icon = "*";
    String bare = new String(new char[maxBareSize]).replace('\0', defaultChar) + "]";
    StringBuilder bareDone = new StringBuilder();
    bareDone.append("[");
    for (int i = 0; i < remainProcent; i++) {
        bareDone.append(icon);
    }
    String bareRemain = bare.substring(remainProcent, bare.length());
    System.out.print("\r" + bareDone + bareRemain + " " + remainProcent * 10 + "%");
    if (remain == total) {
        System.out.print("\n");
    }
}