Package org.codehaus.plexus.util

Class WriterFactory

java.lang.Object

org.codehaus.plexus.util.WriterFactory

public class WriterFactory
extends Object

Utility to create Writers, with explicit encoding choice: platform default, XML, or specified.

Since:

1.4.4

Author:

Herve Boutemy

See Also:

• Charset
• Supported encodings

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final String	FILE_ENCODING	The file.encoding System Property.
static final String	ISO_8859_1	ISO Latin Alphabet #1, also known as ISO-LATIN-1.
static final String	US_ASCII	Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set.
static final String	UTF_16	Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output).
static final String	UTF_16BE	Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order.
static final String	UTF_16LE	Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order.
static final String	UTF_8	Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
WriterFactory()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static Writer	newPlatformWriter(File file)	Create a new Writer with default platform encoding.
static Writer	newPlatformWriter(OutputStream out)	Create a new Writer with default platform encoding.
static Writer	newWriter(File file, String encoding)	Create a new Writer with specified encoding.
static Writer	newWriter(OutputStream out, String encoding)	Create a new Writer with specified encoding.
static XmlStreamWriter	newXmlWriter(File file)	Create a new Writer with XML encoding detection rules.
static XmlStreamWriter	newXmlWriter(OutputStream out)	Create a new Writer with XML encoding detection rules.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Field Details

ISO_8859_1

public static final String ISO_8859_1

ISO Latin Alphabet #1, also known as ISO-LATIN-1. Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

See Also:

• Charset
• Constant Field Values

US_ASCII

public static final String US_ASCII

Seven-bit ASCII, also known as ISO646-US, also known as the Basic Latin block of the Unicode character set. Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

See Also:

• Charset
• Constant Field Values

UTF_16

public static final String UTF_16

Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, byte order specified by a mandatory initial byte-order mark (either order accepted on input, big-endian used on output). Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

See Also:

• Charset
• Constant Field Values

UTF_16BE

public static final String UTF_16BE

Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, big-endian byte order. Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

See Also:

• Charset
• Constant Field Values

UTF_16LE

public static final String UTF_16LE

Sixteen-bit Unicode Transformation Format, little-endian byte order. Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

See Also:

• Charset
• Constant Field Values

UTF_8

public static final String UTF_8

Eight-bit Unicode Transformation Format. Every implementation of the Java platform is required to support this character encoding.

See Also:

• Charset
• Constant Field Values

FILE_ENCODING

public static final String FILE_ENCODING

The file.encoding System Property.

Constructor Details

WriterFactory

public WriterFactory()

Method Details

newXmlWriter

public static XmlStreamWriter newXmlWriter(OutputStream out)
                                    throws IOException

Create a new Writer with XML encoding detection rules.

Parameters:

out - not null output stream.

Returns:

an XML writer instance for the output stream.

Throws:

IOException - if any.

See Also:

• XmlStreamWriter

newXmlWriter

public static XmlStreamWriter newXmlWriter(File file)
                                    throws IOException

Create a new Writer with XML encoding detection rules.

Parameters:

file - not null file.

Returns:

an XML writer instance for the output file.

Throws:

IOException - if any.

See Also:

• XmlStreamWriter

newPlatformWriter

public static Writer newPlatformWriter(OutputStream out)

Create a new Writer with default platform encoding.

Parameters:

out - not null output stream.

Returns:

a writer instance for the output stream using the default platform charset.

See Also:

• Charset.defaultCharset()

newPlatformWriter

public static Writer newPlatformWriter(File file)
                                throws IOException

Create a new Writer with default platform encoding.

Parameters:

file - not null file.

Returns:

a writer instance for the output file using the default platform charset.

Throws:

IOException - if any.

See Also:

• Charset.defaultCharset()

newWriter

public static Writer newWriter(OutputStream out,
 String encoding)
                        throws UnsupportedEncodingException

Create a new Writer with specified encoding.

Parameters:

out - not null output stream.

encoding - not null supported encoding.

Returns:

a writer instance for the output stream using the given encoding.

Throws:

UnsupportedEncodingException - if any.

See Also:

• Supported encodings

newWriter

public static Writer newWriter(File file,
 String encoding)
                        throws IOException

Create a new Writer with specified encoding.

Parameters:

file - not null file.

encoding - not null supported encoding.

Returns:

a writer instance for the output file using the given encoding.

Throws:

IOException - if any.

See Also:

• Supported encodings