Almost all of the original Java I/O stream classes have corresponding Reader and Writer classes to provide native Unicode manipulation. However, there are some places where the byte-oriented InputStreams and OutputStreams are the correct solution; in particular, the java.util.zip libraries are byte-oriented rather than char-oriented. So the most sensible approach to take is to try to use the Reader and Writer classes whenever you can, and you’ll discover the situations when you have to use the byte-oriented libraries, because your code won’t compile.
Here is a table that shows the correspondence between the sources and sinks of information (that is, where the data physically comes from or goes to) in the two hierarchies.
Corresponding Java 1.1 class | |
InputStream | Reader |
OutputStream | Writer |
FileInputStream | FileReader |
FileOutputStream | FileWriter |
StringBufferInputStream | StringReader |
(no corresponding class) | StringWriter |
ByteArrayInputStream | CharArrayReader |
ByteArrayOutputStream | CharArrayWriter |
PipedInputStream | PipedReader |
PipedOutputStream | PipedWriter |
In general, you’ll find that the interfaces for the two different hierarchies are similar if not identical.
Typical uses of I/O streams
Although you can combine the I/O stream classes in many different ways, you’ll probably just use a few combinations. The following example can be used as a basic reference; it shows the creation and use of typical I/O configurations. Note that each configuration begins with a commented number and title that corresponds to the heading for the appropriate explanation that follows in the text.
//: c12:IOStreamDemo.java
// Typical I/O stream configurations.
// {RunByHand}
// {Clean: IODemo.out,Data.txt,rtest.dat}
import java.io.*;
public class IOStreamDemo {
// Throw exceptions to console:
public static void main(String[] args)
throws IOException {
// 1. Reading input by lines:
BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
new FileReader("IOStreamDemo.java"));
String s, s2 = new String();
while((s = in.readLine())!= null)
s2 += s + "/n";
in.close();
// 1b. Reading standard input:
BufferedReader stdin = new BufferedReader(
new InputStreamReader(System.in));
System.out.print("Enter a line:");
System.out.println(stdin.readLine());
// 2. Input from memory
StringReader in2 = new StringReader(s2);
int c;
while((c = in2.read()) != -1)
System.out.print((char)c);
// 3. Formatted memory input
try {
DataInputStream in3 = new DataInputStream(
new ByteArrayInputStream(s2.getBytes()));
while(true)
System.out.print((char)in3.readByte());
} catch(EOFException e) {
System.err.println("End of stream");
}
// 4. File output
try {
BufferedReader in4 = new BufferedReader(
new StringReader(s2));
PrintWriter out1 = new PrintWriter(
new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("IODemo.out")));
int lineCount = 1;
while((s = in4.readLine()) != null )
out1.println(lineCount++ + ": " + s);
out1.close();
} catch(EOFException e) {
System.err.println("End of stream");
}
// 5. Storing & recovering data
try {
DataOutputStream out2 = new DataOutputStream(
new BufferedOutputStream(
new FileOutputStream("Data.txt")));
out2.writeDouble(3.14159);
out2.writeUTF("That was pi");
out2.writeDouble(1.41413);
out2.writeUTF("Square root of 2");
out2.close();
DataInputStream in5 = new DataInputStream(
new BufferedInputStream(
new FileInputStream("Data.txt")));
// Must use DataInputStream for data:
System.out.println(in5.readDouble());
// Only readUTF() will recover the
// Java-UTF String properly:
System.out.println(in5.readUTF());
// Read the following double and String:
System.out.println(in5.readDouble());
System.out.println(in5.readUTF());
} catch(EOFException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
// 6. Reading/writing random access files
RandomAccessFile rf =
new RandomAccessFile("rtest.dat", "rw");
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
rf.writeDouble(i*1.414);
rf.close();
rf = new RandomAccessFile("rtest.dat", "rw");
rf.seek(5*8);
rf.writeDouble(47.0001);
rf.close();
rf = new RandomAccessFile("rtest.dat", "r");
for(int i = 0; i < 10; i++)
System.out.println("Value " + i + ": " +
rf.readDouble());
rf.close();
}
}
My Programme:
package com.mycompany.iotest;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
public class IOFile {
public void ioFile(File file) throws FileNotFoundException{
/* First choice */
FileReader freader = new FileReader(file);
BufferedReader breader2 = new BufferedReader(freader);
try {
breader2.readLine();
breader2.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
/* Second choice in some cases like reading a zipfile*/
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);
BufferedReader breader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
try {
breader.readLine();
breader.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}