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OutputStreamWriter.javaAPI DocJava SE 5 API6769Fri Aug 26 14:57:00 BST 2005java.io

OutputStreamWriter

public class OutputStreamWriter extends Writer
An OutputStreamWriter is a bridge from character streams to byte streams: Characters written to it are encoded into bytes using a specified {@link java.nio.charset.Charset charset}. The charset that it uses may be specified by name or may be given explicitly, or the platform's default charset may be accepted.

Each invocation of a write() method causes the encoding converter to be invoked on the given character(s). The resulting bytes are accumulated in a buffer before being written to the underlying output stream. The size of this buffer may be specified, but by default it is large enough for most purposes. Note that the characters passed to the write() methods are not buffered.

For top efficiency, consider wrapping an OutputStreamWriter within a BufferedWriter so as to avoid frequent converter invocations. For example:

Writer out
= new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(System.out));

A surrogate pair is a character represented by a sequence of two char values: A high surrogate in the range '\uD800' to '\uDBFF' followed by a low surrogate in the range '\uDC00' to '\uDFFF'. If the character represented by a surrogate pair cannot be encoded by a given charset then a charset-dependent substitution sequence is written to the output stream.

A malformed surrogate element is a high surrogate that is not followed by a low surrogate or a low surrogate that is not preceded by a high surrogate. It is illegal to attempt to write a character stream containing malformed surrogate elements. The behavior of an instance of this class when a malformed surrogate element is written is not specified.

see
BufferedWriter
see
OutputStream
see
java.nio.charset.Charset
version
1.47, 04/01/12
author
Mark Reinhold
since
JDK1.1

Fields Summary
private final StreamEncoder
se
Constructors Summary
public OutputStreamWriter(OutputStream out, String charsetName)
Create an OutputStreamWriter that uses the named charset.

param
out An OutputStream
param
charsetName The name of a supported {@link java.nio.charset.Charset charset}
exception
UnsupportedEncodingException If the named encoding is not supported

	super(out);
	if (charsetName == null)
	    throw new NullPointerException("charsetName");
	se = StreamEncoder.forOutputStreamWriter(out, this, charsetName);
    
public OutputStreamWriter(OutputStream out)
Create an OutputStreamWriter that uses the default character encoding.

param
out An OutputStream

	super(out);
	try {
	    se = StreamEncoder.forOutputStreamWriter(out, this, (String)null);
	} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
	    throw new Error(e);
        }
    
public OutputStreamWriter(OutputStream out, Charset cs)
Create an OutputStreamWriter that uses the given charset.

param
out An OutputStream
param
cs A charset
since
1.4
spec
JSR-51

	super(out);
	if (cs == null)
	    throw new NullPointerException("charset");
	se = StreamEncoder.forOutputStreamWriter(out, this, cs);
    
public OutputStreamWriter(OutputStream out, CharsetEncoder enc)
Create an OutputStreamWriter that uses the given charset encoder.

param
out An OutputStream
param
enc A charset encoder
since
1.4
spec
JSR-51

	super(out);
	if (enc == null)
	    throw new NullPointerException("charset encoder");
	se = StreamEncoder.forOutputStreamWriter(out, this, enc);
    
Methods Summary
public voidclose()
Close the stream.

exception
IOException If an I/O error occurs

	se.close();
    
public voidflush()
Flush the stream.

exception
IOException If an I/O error occurs

	se.flush();
    
voidflushBuffer()
Flush the output buffer to the underlying byte stream, without flushing the byte stream itself. This method is non-private only so that it may be invoked by PrintStream.

	se.flushBuffer();
    
public java.lang.StringgetEncoding()
Return the name of the character encoding being used by this stream.

If the encoding has an historical name then that name is returned; otherwise the encoding's canonical name is returned.

If this instance was created with the {@link #OutputStreamWriter(OutputStream, String)} constructor then the returned name, being unique for the encoding, may differ from the name passed to the constructor. This method may return null if the stream has been closed.

return
The historical name of this encoding, or possibly null if the stream has been closed
see
java.nio.charset.Charset
revised
1.4
spec
JSR-51

	return se.getEncoding();
    
public voidwrite(int c)
Write a single character.

exception
IOException If an I/O error occurs

	se.write(c);
    
public voidwrite(char[] cbuf, int off, int len)
Write a portion of an array of characters.

param
cbuf Buffer of characters
param
off Offset from which to start writing characters
param
len Number of characters to write
exception
IOException If an I/O error occurs

	se.write(cbuf, off, len);
    
public voidwrite(java.lang.String str, int off, int len)
Write a portion of a string.

param
str A String
param
off Offset from which to start writing characters
param
len Number of characters to write
exception
IOException If an I/O error occurs

	se.write(str, off, len);