This chapter presents the following content: I/O basics, file I/O classes, file I/O basic operations, text file output, text file input, HTML file generator, text format versus binary format, binary I/O, object I/O. | Chapter 15 – Files I/O basics File I/O Classes File I/O Basic Operations Text File Output PrintWriter import Statement with a * Text File Input Scanner, FileReader HTML File Generator Text Format Versus Binary Format Binary I/O Output with: DataOutputStream, FileOutputStream Input with: DataInputStream, FileInputStream Object I/O Output with: ObjectOutputStream, FileOutputStream Input with: ObjectInputStream, FileInputStream 1 I/O Basics So far, all input has come from the keyboard and all output has been to the console window. Keyboard and console input/output (I/O) is temporary, not permanent. For permanent I/O, use files. Benefit of reading input from a file: Allows input to be reused without having to re-enter the input via the keyboard. Benefits of saving output to a file: Allows output to be re-viewed without having to rerun the program. Allows program chaining where the output of one program is used as the input for another program. 2 File I/O Classes For programs that manipulate files, you'll need to use several pre-built classes from the Java API library. The Java API is organized as a hierarchy of packages where each package contains a group of classes. Here's the file I/O portion of the Java API library: 3 File I/O Classes There are lots of classes that deal with file I/O, and there's overlap with some of those classes. In other words, some classes handle the same sort of file operation(s). The book covers the file I/O classes that are the easiest to use. Here are the file I/O classes that the book covers: If you want to write text to a file, use the PrintWriter class. If you want to read text from a file, use the Scanner and FileReader classes. If you want to write objects to a file, use the ObjectOutputStream and FileOutputStream classes. If you want to read objects from a file, use the ObjectInputStream and FileInputStream classes. When you write "text" to a file, you store the text as characters where each character is represented by its | Chapter 15 – Files I/O basics File I/O Classes File I/O Basic Operations Text File Output PrintWriter import Statement with a * Text File Input Scanner, FileReader HTML File Generator Text Format Versus Binary Format Binary I/O Output with: DataOutputStream, FileOutputStream Input with: DataInputStream, FileInputStream Object I/O Output with: ObjectOutputStream, FileOutputStream Input with: ObjectInputStream, FileInputStream 1 I/O Basics So far, all input has come from the keyboard and all output has been to the console window. Keyboard and console input/output (I/O) is temporary, not permanent. For permanent I/O, use files. Benefit of reading input from a file: Allows input to be reused without having to re-enter the input via the keyboard. Benefits of saving output to a file: Allows output to be re-viewed without having to rerun the program. Allows program chaining where the output of one program is used as the input for another program. 2 File I/O Classes For programs that
