Interface FileStream

Accesses the contents of a file as a stream.

Inherits from

Methods

Name Description
path The path of the file.
close Closes the file handle.
size [inherited] Returns the total size of the file.
readable [inherited] Determines if this stream is readable.
writable [inherited] Determines if this stream is writable.
seek [inherited] Seeks to a specific position in the file if supported by the stream.
tell [inherited] Returns the current offset of the file pointer
empty [inherited] Returns true iff the end of the stream has been reached
leastSize [inherited] Returns the maximum number of bytes that are known to remain in this stream until the end is reached. After leastSize() bytes have been read, the stream will either have reached EOS and empty() returns true, or leastSize() returns again a number > 0.
dataAvailableForRead [inherited] Queries if there is data available for immediate, non-blocking read.
peek [inherited] Returns a temporary reference to the data that is currently buffered, typically has the size leastSize() or 0 if dataAvailableForRead() returns false.
read [inherited] Fills the preallocated array 'bytes' with data from the stream.
write [inherited] Writes an array of bytes to the stream.
flush [inherited] Flushes the stream and makes sure that all data is being written to the output device.
finalize [inherited] Flushes and finalizes the stream.
write [inherited] Writes an array of chars to the stream.
write [inherited] Pipes an InputStream directly into this OutputStream.
put [inherited] These methods provide an output range interface.
release [inherited] Releases the ownership of the object.
acquire [inherited] Acquires the ownership of an unowned object.
isOwner [inherited] Returns true if the calling fiber owns this object

Authors

Sönke Ludwig

Copyright

© 2012 RejectedSoftware e.K.

License

Subject to the terms of the MIT license, as written in the included LICENSE.txt file.