Re: Enhancement request
Mark Space wrote:
public class IOUtil {
private IOUtil() {} // only static methods, can't instantiate
public static BufferedReader makeReader( String s ) {
return new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader( new
FileInputStream( s ) ) );
}
public static BufferedReader makeReader( File f ) {
return new BufferedReader( new InputStreamReader(
new FileInputStream( f ) ) );
}
}
etc. Tedious but do-able, and you only have to do it once. I'm not
sure if this could be improved with generic methods or covariant return
types.
If that's too tedious, it can be simplified to just:
return new BufferedReader( new FileReader( s ));
and
return new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter( s ));
I just don't get how anyone can find that too tedious, actually.
BufferedReader is a general wrapper for all Readers; it really cannot be made
specific to files, so it needs to specify the underlying Reader to keep its
generality. There's no way to condense that expression further and keep the
power of BufferedReader. So the necessity of having the one wrapped Reader as
a constructor argument. Same discussion for Writers. Why one would want or
need to add additional layers of indirection, such as wrapping a Reader around
a Stream explicitly for files, is an open question.
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