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The CharSink.java Java example source code

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2012 The Guava Authors
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except
 * in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
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 * is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express
 * or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under
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package com.google.common.io;

import static com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkNotNull;

import com.google.common.annotations.GwtIncompatible;
import com.google.errorprone.annotations.CanIgnoreReturnValue;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;

/**
 * A destination to which characters can be written, such as a text file. Unlike a {@link Writer}, a
 * {@code CharSink} is not an open, stateful stream that can be written to and closed. Instead, it
 * is an immutable <i>supplier of {@code Writer} instances.
 *
 * <p>{@code CharSink} provides two kinds of methods:
 * <ul>
 * <li>Methods that return a writer: These methods should return a new, independent
 *     instance each time they are called. The caller is responsible for ensuring that the returned
 *     writer is closed.
 * <li>Convenience methods: These are implementations of common operations that are typically
 *     implemented by opening a writer using one of the methods in the first category, doing
 *     something and finally closing the writer that was opened.
 * </ul>
 *
 * <p>Any {@link ByteSink} may be viewed as a {@code CharSink} with a specific {@linkplain Charset
 * character encoding} using {@link ByteSink#asCharSink(Charset)}. Characters written to the
 * resulting {@code CharSink} will written to the {@code ByteSink} as encoded bytes.
 *
 * @since 14.0
 * @author Colin Decker
 */
@GwtIncompatible
public abstract class CharSink {

  /**
   * Constructor for use by subclasses.
   */
  protected CharSink() {}

  /**
   * Opens a new {@link Writer} for writing to this sink. This method should return a new,
   * independent writer each time it is called.
   *
   * <p>The caller is responsible for ensuring that the returned writer is closed.
   *
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs in the process of opening the writer
   */
  public abstract Writer openStream() throws IOException;

  /**
   * Opens a new buffered {@link Writer} for writing to this sink. The returned stream is not
   * required to be a {@link BufferedWriter} in order to allow implementations to simply delegate to
   * {@link #openStream()} when the stream returned by that method does not benefit from additional
   * buffering. This method should return a new, independent writer each time it is called.
   *
   * <p>The caller is responsible for ensuring that the returned writer is closed.
   *
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs in the process of opening the writer
   * @since 15.0 (in 14.0 with return type {@link BufferedWriter})
   */
  public Writer openBufferedStream() throws IOException {
    Writer writer = openStream();
    return (writer instanceof BufferedWriter)
        ? (BufferedWriter) writer
        : new BufferedWriter(writer);
  }

  /**
   * Writes the given character sequence to this sink.
   *
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error in the process of writing to this sink
   */
  public void write(CharSequence charSequence) throws IOException {
    checkNotNull(charSequence);

    Closer closer = Closer.create();
    try {
      Writer out = closer.register(openStream());
      out.append(charSequence);
      out.flush(); // https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1330
    } catch (Throwable e) {
      throw closer.rethrow(e);
    } finally {
      closer.close();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Writes the given lines of text to this sink with each line (including the last) terminated with
   * the operating system's default line separator. This method is equivalent to
   * {@code writeLines(lines, System.getProperty("line.separator"))}.
   *
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs in the process of writing to this sink
   */
  public void writeLines(Iterable<? extends CharSequence> lines) throws IOException {
    writeLines(lines, System.getProperty("line.separator"));
  }

  /**
   * Writes the given lines of text to this sink with each line (including the last) terminated with
   * the given line separator.
   *
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs in the process of writing to this sink
   */
  public void writeLines(Iterable<? extends CharSequence> lines, String lineSeparator)
      throws IOException {
    checkNotNull(lines);
    checkNotNull(lineSeparator);

    Closer closer = Closer.create();
    try {
      Writer out = closer.register(openBufferedStream());
      for (CharSequence line : lines) {
        out.append(line).append(lineSeparator);
      }
      out.flush(); // https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1330
    } catch (Throwable e) {
      throw closer.rethrow(e);
    } finally {
      closer.close();
    }
  }

  /**
   * Writes all the text from the given {@link Readable} (such as a {@link Reader}) to this sink.
   * Does not close {@code readable} if it is {@code Closeable}.
   *
   * @return the number of characters written
   * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs in the process of reading from {@code readable} or
   *     writing to this sink
   */
  @CanIgnoreReturnValue
  public long writeFrom(Readable readable) throws IOException {
    checkNotNull(readable);

    Closer closer = Closer.create();
    try {
      Writer out = closer.register(openStream());
      long written = CharStreams.copy(readable, out);
      out.flush(); // https://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/issues/detail?id=1330
      return written;
    } catch (Throwable e) {
      throw closer.rethrow(e);
    } finally {
      closer.close();
    }
  }
}