Object Oriented Programming

File I/O
Lecture 18
By
Irfan Latif Memon
 Outline
• File I/O
• Streams
• Simple file I/O
• Create a file
• Add the record to the file
• Read from existing file
 File I/O

• Java I/O (Input and Output) is used to process

the input and produce the output.
• Java uses the concept of stream to make I/O
operation fast.
• The java.io package contains all the classes
required for input and output operations.
• We can perform file handling in java by Java
I/O API.
 Stream

• A stream is a sequence of data. In Java a stream is

composed of bytes. It's called a stream because it is like
a stream of water that continues to flow. In java, 3
streams are created for us automatically. All these
streams are attached with console.
• 1) System.out: standard output stream
• 2) System.in: standard input stream
• 3) System.err: standard error stream
• .
 Stream
• Let's see the code to print output and error message
to the console
• System.out.println("simple message");  
• System.err.println("error message");  
• Let's see the code to get input from console.
•
int i=System.in.read();//returns ASCII code of 1st char
acter  
• System.out.println((char)i);//will print the character  
 OutputStream vs InputStream
• OutputStream
• Java application uses an output stream to
write data to a destination, it may be a file, an
array, peripheral device or socket.
• InputStream
• Java application uses an input stream to read
data from a source, it may be a file, an array,
peripheral device or socket.
OutputStream vs InputStream
 OutputStream class
• OutputStream class is an abstract class. It is
the super class of all classes representing an
output stream of bytes. An output stream
accepts output bytes and sends them to some
sink.
Method Description

•1)Useful
public methods
void of OutputStream
write(int)throws is used to write a byte to the current
IOException output stream.
2) public void write(byte[])throws is used to write an array of byte to
IOException the current output stream.
3) public void flush()throws flushes the current output stream.
IOException
4) public void close()throws is used to close the current output
IOException stream.
OutputStream Hierarchy
 InputStream class

• InputStream class is an abstract class. It is the

super class of all classes representing an input
stream of bytes.
• Useful methods of InputStream
Method Description

1) public abstract int read()throws reads the next byte of data from the
IOException input stream. It returns -1 at the end
of file.
2) public int available()throws returns an estimate of the number of
IOException bytes that can be read from the
current input stream.
3) public void close()throws is used to close the current input
IOException stream.
 Java FileOutputStream Class
• Java FileOutputStream is an output stream
used for writing data to a file.
• If you have to write primitive values into a file,
• use FileOutputStream class. You can write
byte-oriented as well as character-oriented
data through FileOutputStream class. But, for
character-oriented data, it is preferred to use
FileWriter than FileOutputStream.
Method Description

protected void finalize() It is sued to clean up the connection

with the file output stream.
void write(byte[] ary) It is used to write ary.length bytes
from the byte array to the file output
stream.
void write(byte[] ary, int off, int len) It is used to write len bytes from the
byte array starting at offset off to
the file output stream.
void write(int b) It is used to write the specified byte
to the file output stream.
FileChannel getChannel() It is used to return the file channel
object associated with the file output
stream.
FileDescriptor getFD() It is used to return the file descriptor
associated with the stream.
void close() It is used to closes the file output
 Java FileOutputStream Example 1:
write byte
• import java.io.FileOutputStream;  
• public class FileOutputStreamExample {  
•     public static void main(String args[]){    
•            try{    
•              FileOutputStream fout=new FileOutputStream("D:\\t
estout.txt");    
•              fout.write(65);    
•              fout.close();    
•              System.out.println("success...");    
•             }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}    
•       }    
• }  
 Java FileOutputStream example 2:
write string
• import java.io.FileOutputStream;  
• public class FileOutputStreamExample {  
•     public static void main(String args[]){    
•            try{    
•              FileOutputStream fout=new FileOutputStream("D:\\testout.txt")
;    
•              String s="Welcome to javaTpoint.";    
•              byte b[]=s.getBytes();//converting string into byte array    
•              fout.write(b);    
•              fout.close();    
•              System.out.println("success...");    
•             }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}    
•       }    
• }  
 Java FileInputStream Class
• Java FileInputStream class obtains input bytes
from a file. It is used for reading byte-oriented
data (streams of raw bytes) such as image
data, audio, video etc. You can also read
character-stream data. But, for reading
streams of characters, it is recommended to
use FileReader class.
 Java FileInputStream class
declaration
• Let's see the declaration for
java.io.FileInputStream class:

• public class FileInputStream extends InputStre
am  
Java FileInputStream class methods

Method Description

int available() It is used to return the estimated

number of bytes that can be read
from the input stream.
int read() It is used to read the byte of data
from the input stream.
int read(byte[] b) It is used to read up
to b.length bytes of data from the
input stream.
int read(byte[] b, int off, int len) It is used to read up to len bytes of
data from the input stream.
long skip(long x) It is used to skip over and discards x
bytes of data from the input stream.
FileChannel getChannel() It is used to return the unique
FileChannel object associated with
the file input stream.
FileDescriptor getFD() It is used to return the FileDescriptor
object.
protected void finalize() It is used to ensure that the close
method is call when there is no
more reference to the file input
stream.
 Java FileInputStream example 1: read single
character
• import java.io.FileInputStream;  
• public class DataStreamExample {  
•      public static void main(String args[]){    
•           try{    
•             FileInputStream fin=new FileInputStream("D:\\testout.txt");    
•             int i=fin.read();  
•             System.out.print((char)i);    
•   
•             fin.close();    
•           }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}    
•          }    
•         } 
 Java FileInputStream example 2: read all
characters
•
import java.io.FileInputStream;  
• public class DataStreamExample {  
•      public static void main(String args[]){    
•           try{    
•             FileInputStream fin=new FileInputStream("D:\\testout.txt");    
•             int i=0;    
•             while((i=fin.read())!=-1){    
•              System.out.print((char)i);    
•             }    
•             fin.close();    
•           }catch(Exception e){System.out.println(e);}    
•          }    
•         }