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§2.20 Class RandomAccessFile
public class java.io.RandomAccessFile
extends java.lang.Object (I-§1.12)
implements java.io.DataOutput (I-§2.25),
java.io.DataInput (I-§2.24)
{
// Constructors
public RandomAccessFile(File file, String mode); §2.20.1
public RandomAccessFile(String name, String mode); §2.20.2
// Methods
public void close(); §2.20.3
public final FileDescriptor getFD(); §2.20.4
public long getFilePointer(); §2.20.5
public long length(); §2.20.6
public int read(); §2.20.7
public int read(byte b[]); §2.20.8
public int read(byte b[], int off, int len); §2.20.9
public final boolean readBoolean(); §2.20.10
public final byte readByte(); §2.20.11
public final char readChar(); §2.20.12
public final double readDouble(); §2.20.13
public final float readFloat(); §2.20.14
public final void readFully(byte b[]); §2.20.15
public final void readFully(byte b[], int off, int len); §2.20.16
public final int readInt(); §2.20.17
public final String readLine(); §2.20.18
public final long readLong(); §2.20.19
public final short readShort(); §2.20.20
public final int readUnsignedByte(); §2.20.21
public final int readUnsignedShort(); §2.20.22
public final String readUTF(); §2.20.23
public void seek(long pos); §2.20.24
public int skipBytes(int n); §2.20.25
public void write(byte b[]); §2.20.26
public void write(byte b[], int off, int len); §2.20.27
public void write(int b); §2.20.28
public final void writeBoolean(boolean v); §2.20.29
public final void writeByte(int v); §2.20.30
public final void writeBytes(String s); §2.20.31
public final void writeChar(int v); §2.20.32
public final void writeChars(String s); §2.20.33
public final void writeDouble(double v); §2.20.34
public final void writeFloat(float v); §2.20.35
public final void writeInt(int v); §2.20.36
public final void writeLong(long v); §2.20.37
public final void writeShort(int v); §2.20.38
public final void writeUTF(String str); §2.20.39
}
Instances of this class support both reading and writing to a random access file. An application can modify the position in the file at which the next read or write occurs.
RandomAccessFile
public RandomAccessFile(File file, String mode)
throws IOException
- Creates a random access file stream to read from, and optionally to write
to, the file specified by the File argument.
- The mode argument must either be equal to "r" or to "rw", indicating either
to open the file for input, or for both input and output, respectively.
- Parameters:
file
-
the file object
mode
-
the access mode
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
- Throws
- IllegalArgumentException (I-§1.32)
- If the mode argument is not equal to "r" or to "rw".
- Throws
- SecurityException (I-§1.43)
- If a security manager exists, its checkRead method (I-§1.15.19) is
called with the path name (I-§2.7.16) of the File argument to see if the
application is allowed read access to the file. If the mode argument is
equal to "rw", its checkWrite method (I-§1.15.19) also is called with the
path name to see if the application is allowed write access to the file.
RandomAccessFile
public RandomAccessFile(String name, String mode)
throws IOException
- Creates an random access file stream to read from, and optionally to write
to, a file with the specified name.
- The mode argument must either be equal to "r" or "rw", indicating either to
open the file for input or for both input and output.
- Parameters:
name
-
the system dependent file name
mode
-
the access mode
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
- Throws
- IllegalArgumentException (I-§1.32)
- If the mode argument is not equal to "r" or to "rw".
- Throws
- SecurityException (I-§1.43)
- If a security manager exists, its checkRead method (I-§1.15.19) is
called with the name argument to see if the application is allowed read
access to the file. If the mode argument is equal to "rw", its checkWrite
method (I-§1.15.19) also is called with the name argument to see if
the application is allowed write access to the file. Either of these may
result in a security security exception (I-§1.43).
close
public void close()
throws IOException
- Closes this random access file stream and releases any system resources
associated with the stream.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
getFD
public final FileDescriptor getFD()
throws IOException
- Returns:
- the file descriptor object (I-§2.8) associated with this stream.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
getFilePointer
public long getFilePointer()
throws IOException
- Returns the current offset in this file.
- Returns:
- the offset from the beginning of the file, in bytes, at which the next
read or write occurs.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
length
public long length()
throws IOException
- Returns:
- the length of this file.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
read
public int read()
throws IOException
- Reads a byte of data from this file. This method blocks if no input is yet
available.
- Returns:
- the next byte of data, or -1 if the end of the file is reached.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
read
public int read(byte b[])
throws IOException
- Reads up to b.length bytes of data from this file into an array of bytes. This
method blocks until at least one byte of input is available.
- Parameters:
b
-
the buffer into which the data is read
- Returns:
- the total number of bytes read into the buffer, or -1 is there is no more
data because the end of this file has been reached.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
read
public int read(byte b[], int off, int len)
throws IOException
- Reads up to len bytes of data from this file into an array of bytes. This
method blocks until at least one byte of input is available.
- Parameters:
b
-
the buffer into which the data is read
off
-
the start offset of the data
len
-
the maximum number of bytes read
- Returns:
- the total number of bytes read into the buffer, or -1 is there is no more
data because the end of the file has been reached.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
readBoolean
public final boolean readBoolean()
throws IOException
- Reads a boolean from this file. This method reads a single byte from the
file. A value of 0 represents false. Any other value represents true. This
method blocks until either the byte is read, the end of the stream is
detected, or an exception is thrown.
- Returns:
- the boolean value read.
- Throws
- EOFException (I-§2.24)
- If this file has reached the end.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
readByte
public final byte readByte()
throws IOException
- Reads a signed 8-bit value from this file. This method reads a byte from
the file. If the byte read is b, where , then the result is
readChar
public final char readChar()
throws IOException
- Reads a Unicode character from this file. This method reads two bytes
from the file. If the bytes read, in order, are b1 and b2, where
, then the result is equal to
readDouble
public final double readDouble()
throws IOException
- Reads a double from this file. This method reads a long value as if by the
readLong method (I-§2.20.19) and then converts that long to a double using
the long-Bits-To-Double method (I-§1.6.18) in class Double.
- This method blocks until either the eight bytes are read, the end of the
stream is detected, or an exception is thrown.
- Returns:
- the next eight bytes of this file, interpreted as a double.
- Throws
- EOFException (I-§2.24)
- If this file reaches the end before reading eight bytes.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
readFloat
public final float readFloat()
throws IOException
- Reads a float from this file. This method reads an int value as if by the readInt method (I-§2.20.17) and then converts that int to a float using the intBitsToFloat method (I-§1.7.14) in class Float.
- This method blocks until either the four bytes are read, the end of the
stream is detected, or an exception is thrown.
- Returns:
- the next four bytes of this file, interpreted as a float.
- Throws
- EOFException (I-§2.24)
- If this file reaches the end before reading four bytes.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
readFully
public final void readFully(byte b[])
throws IOException
- Reads b.length bytes from this file into the byte array. This method reads
repeatedly from the file until all the bytes are read. This method blocks
until all the bytes are read, the end of the stream is detected, or an exception is thrown.
- Parameters:
b
-
the buffer into which the data is read
- Throws
- EOFException (I-§2.24)
- If this file reaches the end before reading all the bytes.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
readFully
public final void readFully(byte b[], int off, int len)
throws IOException
- Reads exactly len bytes from this file into the byte array. This method reads
repeatedly from the file until all the bytes are read. This method blocks
until either all the bytes are read, the end of the stream is detected, or an
exception is thrown.
- Parameters:
b
-
the buffer into which the data is read
off
-
the start offset of the data
len
-
the number of bytes to read read
- Throws
- EOFException (I-§2.24)
- If this file reaches the end before reading all the bytes.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
readInt
public final int readInt()
throws IOException
- Reads a signed 32-bit integer from this file. This method reads four bytes
from the file. If the bytes read, in order, are b1, b2, b3, and b4 where
, then the result is equal to
readLine
public final String readLine()
throws IOException
- Reads the next line of text from this file. This method successively reads
bytes from the file until it reaches the end of a line of text.
- A line of text is terminated by a carriage return character ('\r'), a newline
character ('\n'), a carriage return character immediately followed by a newline character, or the end of the input stream. The line-terminating character(s), if any, are included as part of the string returned.
- This method blocks until either a newline character is read, a carriage
return and the byte following it are read (to see if it is a newline), the end
of the stream is detected, or an exception is thrown.
- Returns:
- the next line of text from this file.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
readLong
public final long readLong()
throws IOException
- Reads a signed 64-bit integer from this file. This method reads eight bytes
from the file. If the bytes read, in order, are b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, b6, b7, and b8,
where
- then the result is equal to
readShort
public final short readShort()
throws IOException
- Reads a signed 16-bit number from this file. The method reads two bytes
from this file. If the two bytes read, in order, are b1 and b2, where each of
the two values is between 0 and 255, inclusive, then the result is equal to:
readUnsignedByte
public final int readUnsignedByte()
throws IOException
- Reads an unsigned 8-bit number from this filr. This method reads a byte
from this file and returns that byte
- This method blocks until either the byte is read, the end of the stream is
detected, or an exception is thrown.
- Returns:
- the next byte of this file, interpreted as an unsigned 8-bit number.
- Throws
- EOFException (I-§2.24)
- If this file has reached the end.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
readUnsignedShort
public final int readUnsignedShort()
throws IOException
- Reads an unsigned 16-bit number from this file. This method reads two
bytes from the file. If the bytes read, in order, are b1 and b2, where
, then the result is equal to
readUTF
public final String readUTF()
throws IOException
- Reads in a string from this file. The string has been encoded using a modified using a modified UTF-8 format.
- The first two bytes from are read as if by readUnsignedShort (I-§2.20.22).
This values gives the number of following bytes that are in the encoded
string. (Note: not the length of the resuling string). The following bytes are
then interpreted as bytes encoding characters in the UTF-8 format
(page I-225) and are converted into characters.
- This method blocks until either all the bytes are read, the end of the stream
is detected, or an exception is thrown.
- Returns:
- a Unicode string.
- Throws
- EOFException (I-§2.24)
- If this file reaches the end before reading all the bytes.
- Throws
- UTFDataFormatException (I-§2.31)
- If the bytes do not represent a valid UTF-8 encoding of a Unicode
string.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
seek
public void seek(long pos)
throws IOException
- Sets the offset from the beginning of this file at which the next read or
write occurs.
- Parameters:
pos
-
the absolute position
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
skipBytes
public int skipBytes(int n)
throws IOException
- Skips exactly n bytes of input.
- This method blocks until either all the bytes are skipped, the end of the
stream is detected, or an exception is thrown.
- Parameters:
n
-
the number of bytes to be skipped
- Returns:
- the number of bytes skipped, which is always n.
- Throws
- EOFException (I-§2.24)
- If this file reaches the end before skipping all the bytes.
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
write
public void write(byte b[])
throws IOException
- Writes b.length bytes from the specified byte array starting at offset off to
this file.
- Parameters:
b
-
the data
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
write
public void write(byte b[], int off, int len)
throws IOException
- Writes len bytes from the specified byte array starting at offset off to this
file.
- Parameters:
b
-
the data
off
-
the start offset in the data
len
-
the number of bytes to write
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
write
public void write(int b)
throws IOException
- Writes the specified byte to this file
- Parameters:
b
-
the byte to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeBoolean
public final void writeBoolean(boolean v)
throws IOException
- Writes a boolean to the file as a one-byte value. The value true is written out
as the value (byte)1; the value false is written out as the value (byte)0.
- Parameters:
v
-
a boolean value to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeByte
public final void writeByte(int v)
throws IOException
- Writes out a byte to the file as a one-byte value.
- Parameters:
v
-
a byte value to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeBytes
public final void writeBytes(String s)
throws IOException
- Writes out the string to the file as a sequence of bytes. Each character in
the string is written out, in sequence, by discarding its high eight bits.
- Parameters:
s
-
a string of bytes to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeChar
public final void writeChar(int v)
throws IOException
- Writes a char to the file as a two-byte value, high byte first.
- Parameters:
v
-
a char value to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeChars
public final void writeChars(String s)
throws IOException
- Writes a string to the file as a sequence of characters. Each character is
written to the data output stream as if by the writeChar method (I-§2.20.32).
- Parameters:
s
-
a String value to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeDouble
public final void writeDouble(double v)
throws IOException
- Converts the double argument to a long using the doubleToLongBits method
(I-§1.6.8) in class Double, and then writes that long value to the file as an
eight-byte quantity, high-byte first.
- Parameters:
v
-
a double value to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeFloat
public final void writeFloat(float v)
throws IOException
- Converts the float argument to an int using the floatToIntBits method
(I-§1.7.11) in class Float, and then writes that int value to the file as a four-
byte quantity, high-byte first.
- Parameters:
v
-
a float value to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeInt
public final void writeInt(int v)
throws IOException
- Writes an int to the file as four bytes, high-byte first.
- Parameters:
v
-
an int to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeLong
public final void writeLong(long v)
throws IOException
- Writes a long to the file as eight bytes, high-byte first.
- Parameters:
v
-
a long to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeShort
public final void writeShort(int v)
throws IOException
- Writes a short to the file as two bytes, high-byte first.
- Parameters:
v
-
a short to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
writeUTF
public final void writeUTF(String str)
throws IOException
- Writes out a string to the file using UTF-8 encoding in a machine-independent manner.
- First, two bytes are written to the file as if by the writeShort method
(I-§2.20.38) giving the number of bytes to follow. This value is the number
of bytes actually written out, not the length of the string. Following the
length, each character of the string is output, in sequence, using the UTF-8
encoding (page I-225) for each character.
- Parameters:
str
-
a string to be written
- Throws
- IOException (I-§2.29)
- If an I/O error occurs.
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