How do I create temporary file?

By Wayan in Core API, IO 0 Comment

A temporary file can be created by using java.io.File.createTempFile() method. It accepts the prefix, suffix and the path where the file will be stored. When no path is specified it will use the platform default temporary folder.

The name of the temporary file will be in the form of prefix plus five or more random characters plus the suffix. When the suffix is null a default .tmp will be used for suffix.

package org.kodejava.io;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.FileWriter;

public class TemporaryFileDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        // Create a temporary file userlist.txt in the default platform
        // temporary folder / directory. We can get the platform temporary
        // folder using System.getProperty("java.io.tmpdir")
        File user = File.createTempFile("userlist", ".txt");

        // Delete the file when the virtual machine is terminated.
        user.deleteOnExit();

        // Create a temporary file data.txt in the user specified folder.
        File data = File.createTempFile("data", ".txt", new File("F:/Temp/Data"));
        data.deleteOnExit();

        // Write data into temporary file
        try (BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(data))) {
            writer.write("750101,2008-01-01,BLUE,CAR");
            writer.write("750102,2008-09-06,RED,CAR");
            writer.write("750103,2008-05-01,GREEN,CAR");
            writer.write("750104,2008-06-08,YELLOW,CAR");
        }
    }
}

How do I read or download web page content?

By Wayan in Core API, Networking 0 Comment

You want to create a program that read a webpage content of a website page. The example below use the URL class to create a connection to the website. You create a new URL object and pass the URL information of a page. After the object created you can open a stream connection using the openStream() method of the URL object.

Next, you can read the stream using the BufferedReader object. This reader allows you to read line by line from the stream. To write it to a file create a writer using the BufferedWriter object and specify the file name where the downloaded page will be stored.

When all the content are read from the stream and stored in a file close the BufferedReader object and the BufferedWriter object at the end of your program.

package org.kodejava.net;

import java.io.*;
import java.net.URL;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;

public class UrlReadPageDemo {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            URL url = new URL("https://kodejava.org");

            BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(
                    new InputStreamReader(url.openStream(), StandardCharsets.UTF_8));
            BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(
                    new FileWriter("data.html", StandardCharsets.UTF_8));

            String line;
            while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
                System.out.println(line);
                writer.write(line);
                writer.newLine();
            }

            reader.close();
            writer.close();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

How do I create and write data into text file?

By Wayan in Core API, IO 0 Comment

Here is a code example for creating text file and put some texts in it. This program will create a file called write.txt. To create and write a text file we do the following steps:

File file = new File("write.txt");
FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(file);
BufferedWriter bufferedWriter = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);

Below is the complete code snippet:

package org.kodejava.io;

import java.io.*;

public class WriteTextFileExample {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        File file = new File("write.txt");

        try (Writer writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter(file))) {
            String contents = "The quick brown fox" + 
                System.getProperty("line.separator") + "jumps over the lazy dog.";

            writer.write(contents);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

To read a text file see the following example: How do I read a text file using BufferedReader?.