Re: mix chars and bytes in a stream.
"Chris Uppal" <chris.uppal@metagnostic.REMOVE-THIS.org> wrote in message
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Sakagami Hiroki wrote:
Is it safe to mix unbuffered OutputStream and Writer output?
It is safe, but you should consider carefully what you want to do it for.
It
is very easy to mix them when you are writing out to a file or to the
network,
but it is significantly more difficult to un-mix them when you read it in
later.
Since there's no guarantee that a Reader won't read and buffer bytes that it
doesn't eventually return as characters, and there's no obverse of "flush()"
to push them back onto the InputStream.
public void output(OutputStream out) {
Writer w = new OutputStreamWriter(out);
out.write(SOME_BYTE_ARRAY);
w.write("blah blah");
out.write(OTHER_BYTE_ARRAY);
w.write("blah blah");
w.close();
}
You should create a new Writer each time you start writing characters, and
flush() it when you have finished. /Don't/ close it, or it will close the
OutputStream too. If you write some binary to the OutputStream and then
want
to write yet another sequence of text, then create a new
OutputStreamWriter.
Flush it when you're done, of course, but why is it necessary to create a
new one each time?
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