Java stream

JAVA
I/O Streams
Prepared by
Miss. Arati A. Gadgil

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I/O Streams
An I/O Stream represents an input source or an output destination. A
stream can represent many different kinds of sources and destinations,
including disk files, devices, other programs, and memory arrays.
Streams support many different kinds of data, including simple bytes,
primitive data types, localized characters, and objects. Some streams
simply pass on data; others manipulate and transform the data in useful
ways.
A stream is a sequence of data.
A program uses an input stream to read data from a source, one item at a
time.
A program uses an output stream to write data to a destination, one item
at time

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The basic stream classes are defined in the package “java.io”.
A Java program is reasonably well served by its default state when
execution begins. Three streams are setup and ready to go. There are two
output streams, identified by the objects System.out and System.err, and
one input stream, identified by the object System.in. These objects are
defined as public data fields in the System class of the java.lang package
The err and out objects are instances of the PrintStream class and the
in object is an instance of the InputStream class.
Java defines two types of streams.
Byte Stream : It provides a convenient means for handling input and
output of byte.
Character Stream : It provides a convenient means for handling input
and output of characters. Character stream uses Unicode and therefore
can be internationalized.

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Byte Stream Classes
Byte stream is defined by using two abstract class at the top of hierarchy,
they are InputStream and OutputStream
BufferedInputStream :Used for Buffered Input Stream.
BufferedOutputStream: Used for Buffered Output Stream.
DataInputStream: Contains method for reading java standard datatype
DataOutputStream: An output stream that contain method for writing
java standard data type

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FileInputStreamInput: stream that reads from a file
FileOutputStreamOutput: stream that write to a file.
InputStream: Abstract class that describe stream input.
OutputStream: Abstract class that describe stream output.
PrintStreamOutput: Stream that contain print() and println() method
Methods
read() : reads byte of data.
write() : Writes byte of data.

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Character Stream Classes
Character stream is also defined by using two abstract class at the top of
hierarchy, they are Reader and Writer.
Charcter stream classes
BufferedReaderHandles buffered input stream.
BufferedWriterHandles buffered output stream.
FileReaderInput stream that reads from file.
FileWriterOutput stream that writes to file.
InputStreamReaderInput stream that translate byte to character

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OutputStreamReaderOutput stream that translate character to byte.
PrintWriterOutput Stream that contain print() and println() method.
ReaderAbstract class that define character stream input
WriterAbstract class that define character stream output

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We use the object of BufferedReader class to take inputs from the
keyboard.
read() method is used with BufferedReader object to read characters. As
this function returns integer type value has we need to use typecasting to
convert it into char type.
To read string we have to use readLine() function with BufferedReader
class's object.

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Scanner
constructors
Scanner(File source)
Constructs a new Scanner that produces values scanned from
the specified file.
Scanner(InputStream source)
the specified input stream.
Scanner(Readable source)
the specified source.
Scanner(String source)
the specified string.

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Scanner will read a line of input from its source
Scanner sc = new Scanner (System.in);
int i = sc.nextInt();
System.out.println("You entered" + i);
This example reads a single int from System.in and outputs it to
System.out. It does not check that the user actually entered an int.

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Next Methods
String next() Finds and returns the next complete token from this
scanner.
boolean nextBoolean() Scans the next token of the input into a boolean
value and returns that value.
byte nextByte() Scans the next token of the input as a byte.
double nextDouble() Scans the next token of the input as a double.
float nextFloat() Scans the next token of the input as a float.
int nextInt() Scans the next token of the input as an int.
String nextLine() Advances this scanner past the current line and returns
the input that was skipped.
long nextLong() Scans the next token of the input as a long.
short nextShort() Scans the next token of the input as a short.

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hasNext methods
boolean hasNext()
Returns true if this scanner has another token in its input.
boolean hasNextBoolean()
Returns true if the next token in this scanner's input can be interpreted as
a boolean value using a case insensitive pattern created from the string
"true|false".
boolean hasNextByte()
a byte value in the default radix using the nextByte() method.
boolean hasNextDouble()
a double value using the nextDouble() method.
boolean hasNextFloat()
a float value using the nextFloat() method.

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boolean hasNextInt()
Returns true if the next token in this scanner's input can be
interpreted as an int value in the default radix using the nextInt()
method.
boolean hasNextLine()
Returns true if there is another line in the input of this scanner.
boolean hasNextLong()
interpreted as a long value in the default radix using the
nextLong() method.
boolean hasNextShort()
interpreted as a short value in the default radix using the
nextShort() method.

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RandomAccessFile
The RandomAccessFile class in the Java IO API allows you to move
around a file and read from it or write to it. We can replace existing parts
of a file too. This is not possible with the FileInputStream or
FileOutputStream.
RandomAccessFile file = new
RandomAccessFile("c:datafile.txt", "rw");
To read or write at a specific location in a RandomAccessFile you must
first position the file pointer at the location to read or write. This is done
using the seek() method. The current position of the file pointer can be
obtained by calling the getFilePointer() method.
file.seek(200);
long pointer = file.getFilePointer(); file.close();

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Reading from a RandomAccessFile
Reading from a RandomAccessFile is done using one of it many read()
methods.
int aByte = file.read();
file.close();
The read() method reads the byte located a the position in the file
currently pointed to by the file pointer in theRandomAccessFile instance.

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Writing to a RandomAccessFile
Writing to a RandomAccessFile can be done using one it its
many write() methods.
file.write("Hello World".getBytes());
file.close();
Just like with the read() method the write() method advances the file
pointer after being called. That way you don't have to constantly move
the file pointer to write data to a new location in the file.

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