Re: Read a file to get an ArrayList

From:
Nigel Wade <nmw@ion.le.ac.uk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.help
Date:
Thu, 22 Jul 2010 17:30:14 +0100
Message-ID:
<i29ro4$c7f$1@south.jnrs.ja.net>
On 22/07/10 15:51, Lew wrote:

Nigel Wade wrote:

You simply read it back in the way it was written out:

 FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream("t.tmp");
 ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);


  try
  {


Well, I was leaving such details as an exercise for the OP. I merely
intended to point them in the right direction, in line with the example
in the Javadocs.

But now you've brought it up, that try block should enclose the
FileInputStream/ObjectInputStream creation...

    @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" ) // matches what was written

  ArrayList<String> dimensions = (ArrayList<String>) ois.readObject();


    @SuppressWarnings( "unchecked" ) // matches what was written

  ArrayList<String> colorpxl = (ArrayList<String>) ois.readObject();


  }
  catch ( ClassCastException exc )
  {
    // log and handle ...
  }

 ois.close();


.... and you should also catch IOException (or each individual sub-class
that might get thrown if you really want to), and don't forget the
ClassNotFoundException.

--
Nigel Wade

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