ewe.io
Class FileWriter

java.lang.Object
  ewe.io.Writer
      ewe.io.TextWriter
          ewe.io.OutputStreamWriter
              ewe.io.FileWriter

public class FileWriter

extends OutputStreamWriter

This is a convenience class for writing to files. It creates an FileOutputStream and initializes an OutputStreamWriter to write to it.

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class ewe.io.TextWriter

closed, codec, output, stream

Fields inherited from class ewe.io.Writer

lock

Constructor Summary

FileWriter(File file)
This method initializes a new FileWriter object to write to the specified File object.

FileWriter(File file, boolean append)
This method initializes a new FileWriter object to write to the specified File object.

FileWriter(String name)
This method intializes a new FileWriter object to write to the specified named file.

FileWriter(String name, boolean append)
This method intializes a new FileWriter object to write to the specified named file.

Methods inherited from class ewe.io.OutputStreamWriter

getEncoding, setCodec

Methods inherited from class ewe.io.TextWriter

close, flush, print, println, println, write, writeAll

Methods inherited from class ewe.io.Writer

getLock, write, write, write, write

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, toString

Constructor Detail

FileWriter

public FileWriter(File file)
           throws SecurityException,
                  IOException

This method initializes a new FileWriter object to write to the specified File object.

Parameters:

file - The File object to write to.

FileWriter

public FileWriter(File file,
                  boolean append)
           throws IOException

This method initializes a new FileWriter object to write to the specified File object.

Parameters:

file - The File object to write to.

append - true to start adding data at the end of the file, false otherwise.

FileWriter

public FileWriter(String name)
           throws IOException

This method intializes a new FileWriter object to write to the specified named file.

Parameters:

name - The name of the file to write to

FileWriter

public FileWriter(String name,
                  boolean append)
           throws IOException

This method intializes a new FileWriter object to write to the specified named file. This form of the constructor allows the caller to determin whether data should be written starting at the beginning or the end of the file.

Parameters:

name - The name of the file to write to

append - true to start adding data at the end of the file, false otherwise.