minwin-gcc-5-2/libjava/classpath/java/io/StringWriter.java

/* StringWriter.java -- Writes bytes to a StringBuffer
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package java.io;

// Wow is this a dumb class.  CharArrayWriter can do all this and
// more.  I would redirect all calls to one in fact, but the javadocs say
// use a StringBuffer so I will comply.

/**
  * This class writes chars to an internal <code>StringBuffer</code> that
  * can then be used to retrieve a <code>String</code>.
  *
  * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
  * @author Tom Tromey (tromey@cygnus.com)
  */
public class StringWriter extends Writer
{
  /**
   * This is the default size of the buffer if the user doesn't specify it.
   * @specnote The JCL Volume 1 says that 16 is the default size.
   */
  private static final int DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE = 16;

  /**
   * This method closes the stream.  The contents of the internal buffer
   * can still be retrieved, but future writes are not guaranteed to work.
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error orrurs.
   */
  public void close () throws IOException
  {
    // JCL says this does nothing.  This seems to violate the Writer
    // contract, in that other methods should still throw an
    // IOException after a close.  Still, we just follow JCL.
  }

  /**
   * This method flushes any buffered characters to the underlying output.
   * It does nothing in this class.
   */
  public void flush ()
  {
  }

  /**
   * This method returns the <code>StringBuffer</code> object that this
   * object is writing to.  Note that this is the actual internal buffer, so
   * any operations performed on it will affect this stream object.
   *
   * @return The <code>StringBuffer</code> object being written to
   */
  public StringBuffer getBuffer ()
  {
    return buffer;
  }

  /**
   * This method initializes a new <code>StringWriter</code> to write to a
   * <code>StringBuffer</code> initially sized to a default size of 16
   * chars.
   */
  public StringWriter ()
  {
    this (DEFAULT_BUFFER_SIZE);
  }

  /**
   * This method initializes a new <code>StringWriter</code> to write to a
   * <code>StringBuffer</code> with the specified initial size.
   *
   * @param size The initial size to make the <code>StringBuffer</code>
   */
  public StringWriter (int size)
  {
    super ();
    buffer = new StringBuffer (size);
    lock = buffer;
  }

  /**
   * This method returns the contents of the internal <code>StringBuffer</code>
   * as a <code>String</code>.
   *
   * @return A <code>String</code> representing the chars written to
   * this stream.
   */
  public String toString ()
  {
    return buffer.toString();
  }

  /**
   * This method writes a single character to the output, storing it in
   * the internal buffer.
   *
   * @param oneChar The <code>char</code> to write, passed as an int.
   */
  public void write (int oneChar)
  {
    buffer.append((char) (oneChar & 0xFFFF));
  }

  /**
   * This method writes <code>len</code> chars from the specified
   * array starting at index <code>offset</code> in that array to this
   * stream by appending the chars to the end of the internal buffer.
   *
   * @param chars The array of chars to write
   * @param offset The index into the array to start writing from
   * @param len The number of chars to write
   */
  public void write (char[] chars, int offset, int len)
  {
    buffer.append(chars, offset, len);
  }

  /**
   * This method writes the characters in the specified <code>String</code>
   * to the stream by appending them to the end of the internal buffer.
   *
   * @param str The <code>String</code> to write to the stream.
   */
  public void write (String str)
  {
    buffer.append(str);
  }

  /**
   * This method writes out <code>len</code> characters of the specified
   * <code>String</code> to the stream starting at character position
   * <code>offset</code> into the stream.  This is done by appending the
   * characters to the internal buffer.
   *
   * @param str The <code>String</code> to write characters from
   * @param offset The character position to start writing from
   * @param len The number of characters to write.
   */
  public void write (String str, int offset, int len)
  {
//      char[] tmpbuf = new char[len];
//      str.getChars(offset, offset+len, tmpbuf, 0);
//      buf.append(tmpbuf, 0, tmpbuf.length);
    // This implementation assumes that String.substring is more
    // efficient than using String.getChars and copying the data
    // twice.  For libgcj, this is true.  For Classpath, it is not.
    // FIXME.
    buffer.append(str.substring(offset, offset + len));
  }

  /** @since 1.5 */
  public StringWriter append(char c)
  {
    write(c);
    return this;
  }

  /** @since 1.5 */
  public StringWriter append(CharSequence cs)
  {
    write(cs == null ? "null" : cs.toString());
    return this;
  }

  /** @since 1.5 */
  public StringWriter append(CharSequence cs, int start, int end)
  {
    write(cs == null ? "null" : cs.subSequence(start, end).toString());
    return this;
  }

  /**
   * This is the <code>StringBuffer</code> that we use to store bytes that
   * are written.
   */
  private StringBuffer buffer;
}