Helper.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009 Red Hat, Inc.
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     Red Hat - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.linuxtools.internal.callgraph.core;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.eclipse.ui.console.ConsolePlugin;
import org.eclipse.ui.console.TextConsole;

public class Helper {

    /**
     * @param name : A String that can be found in the console (BE AS SPECIFIC AS POSSIBLE)
     * @return The TextConsole having 'name' somewhere within it's name
     */
    public static TextConsole getConsoleByName(String name) {
        for (int i = 0; i < ConsolePlugin.getDefault().getConsoleManager()
                .getConsoles().length; i++) {
            if (ConsolePlugin.getDefault().getConsoleManager().
                    getConsoles()[i].getName().contains(name)) {
                return (TextConsole)ConsolePlugin.getDefault().getConsoleManager().getConsoles()[i];
            }
        }
        return null;
    }

    /**
     * Read the contents of a file
     * @param absoluteFilePath : The absolute path of the file from which to read.
     * @return : The contents of the file as a String.
     */
    public static String readFile(String absoluteFilePath) {

        try (BufferedReader bw = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(new File(absoluteFilePath)))) {
            String output = ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
            String tmp = ""; //$NON-NLS-1$
            while ((tmp = bw.readLine()) != null) {
                output+=tmp + "\n"; //$NON-NLS-1$
            }
            bw.close();

            return output;
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }

    public static BufferedWriter setBufferedWriter(String absoluteFilePath) {
        try {
            File f = new File(absoluteFilePath);
            f.delete();
            f.createNewFile();
            FileWriter fstream;
            fstream = new FileWriter(absoluteFilePath, true);
            return new BufferedWriter(fstream);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            SystemTapUIErrorMessages err = new SystemTapUIErrorMessages
                    (Messages.getString("SystemTapView.FileIOErr"), //$NON-NLS-1$
                    Messages.getString("SystemTapView.FileIOErr"), //$NON-NLS-1$
                    Messages.getString("SystemTapView.FileIOErrMsg")); //$NON-NLS-1$
            err.schedule();
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    }

}