Class LineWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:
Closeable, Flushable, Appendable, AutoCloseable

public class LineWriter extends FilterWriter
Writes characters to a stream while replacing various EOL by a unique string. This class catches all occurrences of "\r", "\n" and "\r\n", and replaces them by the platform depend EOL string ("\r\n" on Windows, "\n" on Unix), or any other EOL explicitly set at construction time. This writer also remove trailing blanks before end of lines, but this behavior can be changed by overriding isWhitespace(char).
Since:
2.0
Author:
Martin Desruisseaux (IRD)
  • Constructor Details

    • LineWriter

      public LineWriter(Writer out)
      Constructs a LineWriter object that will use the platform dependent line separator.
      Parameters:
      out - A writer object to provide the underlying stream.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if out is null.
    • LineWriter

      public LineWriter(Writer out, String lineSeparator)
      Constructs a LineWriter object that will use the specified line separator.
      Parameters:
      out - A writer object to provide the underlying stream.
      lineSeparator - String to use as line separator.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - if out or lineSeparator is null.
  • Method Details

    • getLineSeparator

      public String getLineSeparator()
      Returns the current line separator.
      Returns:
      The current line separator.
    • setLineSeparator

      public void setLineSeparator(String lineSeparator)
      Changes the line separator. This is the string to insert in place of every occurences of "\r", "\n" or "\r\n".
      Parameters:
      lineSeparator - The new line separator.
      Throws:
      IllegalArgumentException - If lineSeparator is null.
    • write

      public void write(int c) throws IOException
      Writes a single character.
      Overrides:
      write in class FilterWriter
      Throws:
      IOException - If an I/O error occurs.
    • write

      public void write(char[] cbuf, int offset, int length) throws IOException
      Writes a portion of an array of characters.
      Overrides:
      write in class FilterWriter
      Parameters:
      cbuf - Buffer of characters to be written.
      offset - Offset from which to start reading characters.
      length - Number of characters to be written.
      Throws:
      IOException - If an I/O error occurs.
    • write

      public void write(String string, int offset, int length) throws IOException
      Writes a portion of an array of a string.
      Overrides:
      write in class FilterWriter
      Parameters:
      string - String to be written.
      offset - Offset from which to start reading characters.
      length - Number of characters to be written.
      Throws:
      IOException - If an I/O error occurs.
    • flush

      public void flush() throws IOException
      Flushs the stream's content to the underlying stream. This method flush completly all internal buffers, including any whitespace characters that should have been skipped if the next non-blank character is a line separator.
      Specified by:
      flush in interface Flushable
      Overrides:
      flush in class FilterWriter
      Throws:
      IOException - If an I/O error occurs.
    • isWhitespace

      protected boolean isWhitespace(char c) throws IOException
      Returns true if the specified character is a white space that can be ignored on end of line. The default implementation returns Character.isSpaceChar(char). Subclasses can override this method in order to change the criterion.
      Parameters:
      c - The character to test.
      Returns:
      true if c is a character that can be ignored on end of line.
      Throws:
      IOException - if this method can not determine if the character is ignoreable.
      Since:
      2.5