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package java.io;
/**
* Abstract class for writing to character streams. The only methods that a
* subclass must implement are write(char[], int, int), flush(), and close().
* Most subclasses, however, will override some of the methods defined here in
* order to provide higher efficiency, additional functionality, or both.
*
* @version 12/17/01 (CLDC 1.1)
* @since JDK1.1, CLDC 1.0
* @see java.io.OutputStreamWriter
* @see java.io.Reader
*/
public abstract class Writer {
/**
* Temporary buffer used to hold writes of strings and single characters
*/
private char[] writeBuffer;
/**
* Size of writeBuffer, must be >= 1
*/
private final int writeBufferSize = 1024;
/**
* The object used to synchronize operations on this stream. For
* efficiency, a character-stream object may use an object other than
* itself to protect critical sections. A subclass should therefore use
* the object in this field rather than <tt>this</tt> or a synchronized
* method.
*/
protected Object lock;
/**
* Create a new character-stream writer whose critical sections will
* synchronize on the writer itself.
*/
protected Writer() {
this.lock = this;
}
/**
* Create a new character-stream writer whose critical sections will
* synchronize on the given object.
*
* @param lock Object to synchronize on.
*/
protected Writer(Object lock) {
if (lock == null) {
throw new NullPointerException();
}
this.lock = lock;
}
/**
* Write a single character. The character to be written is contained in
* the 16 low-order bits of the given integer value; the 16 high-order bits
* are ignored.
*
* <p> Subclasses that intend to support efficient single-character output
* should override this method.
*
* @param c int specifying a character to be written.
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
public void write(int c) throws IOException {
synchronized (lock) {
if (writeBuffer == null){
writeBuffer = new char[writeBufferSize];
}
writeBuffer[0] = (char) c;
write(writeBuffer, 0, 1);
}
}
/**
* Write an array of characters.
*
* @param cbuf Array of characters to be written
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
public void write(char cbuf[]) throws IOException {
write(cbuf, 0, cbuf.length);
}
/**
* Write a portion of an array of characters.
*
* @param cbuf Array of characters
* @param off Offset from which to start writing characters
* @param len Number of characters to write
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
abstract public void write(char cbuf[], int off, int len) throws IOException;
/**
* Write a string.
*
* @param str String to be written
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
public void write(String str) throws IOException {
write(str, 0, str.length());
}
/**
* Write a portion of a string.
*
* @param str A String
* @param off Offset from which to start writing characters
* @param len Number of characters to write
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
public void write(String str, int off, int len) throws IOException {
synchronized (lock) {
char cbuf[];
if (len <= writeBufferSize) {
if (writeBuffer == null) {
writeBuffer = new char[writeBufferSize];
}
cbuf = writeBuffer;
} else { // Don't permanently allocate very large buffers.
cbuf = new char[len];
}
str.getChars(off, (off + len), cbuf, 0);
write(cbuf, 0, len);
}
}
/**
* Flush the stream. If the stream has saved any characters from the
* various write() methods in a buffer, write them immediately to their
* intended destination. Then, if that destination is another character or
* byte stream, flush it. Thus one flush() invocation will flush all the
* buffers in a chain of Writers and OutputStreams.
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
abstract public void flush() throws IOException;
/**
* Close the stream, flushing it first. Once a stream has been closed,
* further write() or flush() invocations will cause an IOException to be
* thrown. Closing a previously-closed stream, however, has no effect.
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
abstract public void close() throws IOException;
}