All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable, Flushable, Appendable, AutoCloseable

public class FileWriter
extends OutputStreamWriter 

Since:

JDK1.1

See Also:

OutputStreamWriter, FileOutputStream

• Field Summary

  • Fields inherited from class java.io.Writer

    lock

• Constructor Summary

  Constructors

  Constructor	Description
  FileWriter (File file)	Constructs a FileWriter object given a File object.
  FileWriter (File file, boolean append)	Constructs a FileWriter object given a File object.
  FileWriter (FileDescriptor fd)	Constructs a FileWriter object associated with a file descriptor.
  FileWriter (String fileName)	Constructs a FileWriter object given a file name.
  FileWriter (String fileName, boolean append)	Constructs a FileWriter object given a file name with a boolean indicating whether or not to append the data written.

• Method Summary

  • Methods inherited from class java.io.OutputStreamWriter

    close, flush, getEncoding, write, write, write

  • Methods inherited from class java.io.Writer

    append, append, append, write, write

  • Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

• Constructor Detail

  • FileWriter

    public FileWriter(String fileName)
     throws IOException 

    Constructs a FileWriter object given a file name.

    Parameters:

    fileName - String The system-dependent filename.

    Throws:

    IOException - if the named file exists but is a directory rather than a regular file, does not exist but cannot be created, or cannot be opened for any other reason

  • FileWriter

    public FileWriter(String fileName,
     boolean append)
     throws IOException 

    Constructs a FileWriter object given a file name with a boolean indicating whether or not to append the data written.

    Parameters:

    fileName - String The system-dependent filename.

    append - boolean if true, then data will be written to the end of the file rather than the beginning.

    Throws:

    IOException - if the named file exists but is a directory rather than a regular file, does not exist but cannot be created, or cannot be opened for any other reason

  • FileWriter

    public FileWriter(File file)
     throws IOException 

    Constructs a FileWriter object given a File object.

    Parameters:

    file - a File object to write to.

    Throws:

    IOException - if the file exists but is a directory rather than a regular file, does not exist but cannot be created, or cannot be opened for any other reason

  • FileWriter

    public FileWriter(File file,
     boolean append)
     throws IOException 

    Constructs a FileWriter object given a File object. If the second argument is true, then bytes will be written to the end of the file rather than the beginning.

    Parameters:

    file - a File object to write to

    append - if true, then bytes will be written to the end of the file rather than the beginning

    Throws:

    IOException - if the file exists but is a directory rather than a regular file, does not exist but cannot be created, or cannot be opened for any other reason

    Since:

    1.4

  • FileWriter

    public FileWriter(FileDescriptor fd)

    Constructs a FileWriter object associated with a file descriptor.

    Parameters:

    fd - FileDescriptor object to write to.