/* NullWriter.java Created: 2 February 2009 Module By: Jonathan Abbey, jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ganymede Directory Management System Copyright (C) 1996-2010 The University of Texas at Austin Contact information Web site: http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2 Author Email: ganymede_author@arlut.utexas.edu Email mailing list: ganymede@arlut.utexas.edu US Mail: Computer Science Division Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin PO Box 8029, Austin TX 78713-8029 Telephone: (512) 835-3200 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package arlut.csd.Util; /*------------------------------------------------------------------------------ class NullWriter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/ /** * This class provides a 'no-op' Writer subclass. * * It is intended to perform the equivalent of writing to /dev/null on * Unix systems, for software components that are designed to write to * a Writer but which may also perform desired side-effects at the * same time. * * By using NullWriter, such a component can be run once against the * NullWriter to capture the side effects, then again at a later point * against a functioning Writer to perform the actual I/O. */ public class NullWriter extends java.io.Writer { public NullWriter() { } public void close() { } public void flush() { } public void write (char[] cbuf, int off, int len) { } }