com.google.common.io

Class CharSource

java.lang.Object

com.google.common.io.CharSource

public abstract class CharSource
extends Object

A readable source of characters, such as a text file. Unlike a Reader, a CharSource is not an open, stateful stream of characters that can be read and closed. Instead, it is an immutable supplier of InputStream instances.

CharSource provides two kinds of methods:

• Methods that return a reader: These methods should return a new, independent instance each time they are called. The caller is responsible for ensuring that the returned reader is closed.
• Convenience methods: These are implementations of common operations that are typically implemented by opening a reader using one of the methods in the first category, doing something and finally closing the reader that was opened.

Several methods in this class, such as readLines(), break the contents of the source into lines. Like BufferedReader, these methods break lines on any of \n, \r or \r\n, do not include the line separator in each line and do not consider there to be an empty line at the end if the contents are terminated with a line separator.

Any ByteSource containing text encoded with a specific character encoding may be viewed as a CharSource using ByteSource.asCharSource(Charset).

Since:

14.0

Author:

Colin Decker

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
CharSource()

Method Summary

Methods

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
long	copyTo(Appendable appendable) Appends the contents of this source to the given Appendable (such as a Writer).
long	copyTo(CharSink sink) Copies the contents of this source to the given sink.
BufferedReader	openBufferedStream() Opens a new BufferedReader for reading from this source.
abstract Reader	openStream() Opens a new Reader for reading from this source.
String	read() Reads the contents of this source as a string.
String	readFirstLine() Reads the first link of this source as a string.
ImmutableList<String>	readLines() Reads all the lines of this source as a list of strings.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

CharSource

public CharSource()

Method Detail

openStream

public abstract Reader openStream()
                           throws IOException

Opens a new Reader for reading from this source. This method should return a new, independent reader each time it is called.

The caller is responsible for ensuring that the returned reader is closed.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs in the process of opening the reader

openBufferedStream

public BufferedReader openBufferedStream()
                                  throws IOException

Opens a new BufferedReader for reading from this source. This method should return a new, independent reader each time it is called.

The caller is responsible for ensuring that the returned reader is closed.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs in the process of opening the reader

copyTo

public long copyTo(Appendable appendable)
            throws IOException

Appends the contents of this source to the given Appendable (such as a Writer). Does not close appendable if it is Closeable.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs in the process of reading from this source or writing to appendable

copyTo

public long copyTo(CharSink sink)
            throws IOException

Copies the contents of this source to the given sink.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs in the process of reading from this source or writing to sink

read

public String read()
            throws IOException

Reads the contents of this source as a string.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs in the process of reading from this source

readFirstLine

@Nullable
public String readFirstLine()
                     throws IOException

Reads the first link of this source as a string. Returns null if this source is empty.

Like BufferedReader, this method breaks lines on any of \n, \r or \r\n, does not include the line separator in the returned line and does not consider there to be an extra empty line at the end if the content is terminated with a line separator.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs in the process of reading from this source

readLines

public ImmutableList<String> readLines()
                                throws IOException

Reads all the lines of this source as a list of strings. The returned list will be empty if this source is empty.

Like BufferedReader, this method breaks lines on any of \n, \r or \r\n, does not include the line separator in the returned lines and does not consider there to be an extra empty line at the end if the content is terminated with a line separator.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs in the process of reading from this source