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/*
* @(#)Reader.java 1.9 98/07/01
*
* Copyright 1995-1998 by Sun Microsystems, Inc.,
* 901 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, California, 94303, U.S.A.
* All rights reserved.
*
* This software is the confidential and proprietary information
* of Sun Microsystems, Inc. ("Confidential Information"). You
* shall not disclose such Confidential Information and shall use
* it only in accordance with the terms of the license agreement
* you entered into with Sun.
*/
package java.io;
/**
* Abstract class for reading character streams. The only methods that a
* subclass must implement are read(char[], int, int) and close(). Most
* subclasses, however, will override some of the methods defined here in order
* to provide higher efficiency, additional functionality, or both.
*
*
* @see BufferedReader
* @see LineNumberReader
* @see CharArrayReader
* @see InputStreamReader
* @see FileReader
* @see FilterReader
* @see PushbackReader
* @see PipedReader
* @see StringReader
* @see Writer
*
* @version 1.9, 98/07/01
* @author Mark Reinhold
* @since JDK1.1
*/
public abstract class Reader {
/**
* The object used to synchronize operations on this stream. For
* efficiency, a character-stream object may use an object other than
* itself to protect critical sections. A subclass should therefore use
* the object in this field rather than <tt>this</tt> or a synchronized
* method.
*/
protected Object lock;
/**
* Create a new character-stream reader whose critical sections will
* synchronize on the reader itself.
*/
protected Reader() {
this.lock = this;
}
/**
* Create a new character-stream reader whose critical sections will
* synchronize on the given object.
*/
protected Reader(Object lock) {
this.lock = lock;
}
/**
* Read a single character. This method will block until a character is
* available, an I/O error occurs, or the end of the stream is reached.
*
* <p> Subclasses that intend to support efficient single-character input
* should override this method.
*
* @return The character read, as an integer in the range 0 to 16383
* (<tt>0x00-0xffff</tt>), or -1 if the end of the stream has
* been reached
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
public int read() throws IOException {
char cb[] = new char[1];
if (read(cb, 0, 1) == -1)
return -1;
else
return cb[0];
}
/**
* Read characters into an array. This method will block until some input
* is available, an I/O error occurs, or the end of the stream is reached.
*
* @param cbuf Destination buffer
*
* @return The number of bytes read, or -1 if the end of the stream
* has been reached
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
public int read(char cbuf[]) throws IOException {
return read(cbuf, 0, cbuf.length);
}
/**
* Read characters into a portion of an array. This method will block
* until some input is available, an I/O error occurs, or the end of the
* stream is reached.
*
* @param cbuf Destination buffer
* @param off Offset at which to start storing characters
* @param len Maximum number of characters to read
*
* @return The number of characters read, or -1 if the end of the
* stream has been reached
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
abstract public int read(char cbuf[], int off, int len) throws IOException;
/** Maximum skip-buffer size */
private static final int maxSkipBufferSize = 8192;
/** Skip buffer, null until allocated */
private char skipBuffer[] = null;
/**
* Skip characters. This method will block until some characters are
* available, an I/O error occurs, or the end of the stream is reached.
*
* @param n The number of characters to skip
*
* @return The number of characters actually skipped
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
int nn = (int) Math.min(n, maxSkipBufferSize);
synchronized (lock) {
if ((skipBuffer == null) || (skipBuffer.length < nn))
skipBuffer = new char[nn];
long r = n;
while (r > 0) {
int nc = read(skipBuffer, 0, nn);
if (nc == -1)
break;
r -= nc;
}
return n - r;
}
}
/**
* Tell whether this stream is ready to be read.
*
* @return True if the next read() is guaranteed not to block for input,
* false otherwise. Note that returning false does not guarantee that the
* next read will block.
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
public boolean ready() throws IOException {
return false;
}
/**
* Tell whether this stream supports the mark() operation.
*/
public boolean markSupported() {
return false;
}
/**
* Mark the present position in the stream. Subsequent calls to reset()
* will attempt to reposition the stream to this point. Not all
* character-input streams support the mark() operation.
*
* @param readAheadLimit Limit on the number of characters that may be
* read while still preserving the mark. After
* reading this many characters, attempting to
* reset the stream may fail.
*
* @exception IOException If the stream does not support mark(),
* or if some other I/O error occurs
*/
public void mark(int readAheadLimit) throws IOException {
throw new IOException("mark() not supported");
}
/**
* Reset the stream. If the stream has been marked, then attempt to
* reposition it at the mark. If the stream has not been marked, then
* attempt to reset it in some way appropriate to the particular stream,
* for example by repositioning it to its starting point. Not all
* character-input streams support the reset() operation, and some support
* reset() without supporting mark().
*
* @exception IOException If the stream has not been marked,
* or if the mark has been invalidated,
* or if the stream does not support reset(),
* or if some other I/O error occurs
*/
public void reset() throws IOException {
throw new IOException("reset() not supported");
}
/**
* Close the stream. Once a stream has been closed, further read(),
* ready(), mark(), or reset() invocations will throw an IOException.
* Closing a previously-closed stream, however, has no effect.
*
* @exception IOException If an I/O error occurs
*/
abstract public void close() throws IOException;
}