Package com.google.common.io

Class ByteSink

java.lang.Object

com.google.common.io.ByteSink

@GwtIncompatible
public abstract class ByteSink
extends Object

A destination to which bytes can be written, such as a file. Unlike an OutputStream, a ByteSink is not an open, stateful stream that can be written to and closed. Instead, it is an immutable supplier of OutputStream instances.

ByteSink provides two kinds of methods:

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

Since:

14.0

Author:

Colin Decker

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Modifier	Constructor	Description
protected	ByteSink()	Constructor for use by subclasses.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
CharSink	asCharSink(Charset charset)	Returns a CharSink view of this ByteSink that writes characters to this sink as bytes encoded with the given charset.
OutputStream	openBufferedStream()	Opens a new buffered OutputStream for writing to this sink.
abstract OutputStream	openStream()	Opens a new OutputStream for writing to this sink.
void	write(byte[] bytes)	Writes all the given bytes to this sink.
long	writeFrom(InputStream input)	Writes all the bytes from the given InputStream to this sink.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

ByteSink

protected ByteSink()

Constructor for use by subclasses.

Method Detail

asCharSink

public CharSink asCharSink(Charset charset)

Returns a CharSink view of this ByteSink that writes characters to this sink as bytes encoded with the given charset.

openStream

public abstract OutputStream openStream()
                                 throws IOException

Opens a new OutputStream for writing to this sink. This method returns a new, independent stream each time it is called.

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

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs while opening the stream

openBufferedStream

public OutputStream openBufferedStream()
                                throws IOException

Opens a new buffered OutputStream for writing to this sink. The returned stream is not required to be a BufferedOutputStream in order to allow implementations to simply delegate to openStream() when the stream returned by that method does not benefit from additional buffering (for example, a ByteArrayOutputStream). This method returns a new, independent stream each time it is called.

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

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O error occurs while opening the stream

Since:

15.0 (in 14.0 with return type BufferedOutputStream)

write

public void write(byte[] bytes)
           throws IOException

Writes all the given bytes to this sink.

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O occurs while writing to this sink

writeFrom

@CanIgnoreReturnValue
public long writeFrom(InputStream input)
               throws IOException

Writes all the bytes from the given InputStream to this sink. Does not close input.

Returns:

the number of bytes written

Throws:

IOException - if an I/O occurs while reading from input or writing to this sink