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diff --git a/libjava/java/io/DataOutputStream.java b/libjava/java/io/DataOutputStream.java
index 61a00f5..8fe9bbe 100644
--- a/libjava/java/io/DataOutputStream.java
+++ b/libjava/java/io/DataOutputStream.java
@@ -38,40 +38,90 @@ exception statement from your version. */
package java.io;
-/**
- * @author Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
- * @date September 24, 1998
- */
-
/* Written using "Java Class Libraries", 2nd edition, ISBN 0-201-31002-3
* "The Java Language Specification", ISBN 0-201-63451-1
* Status: Complete to version 1.1.
*/
+/**
+ * This class provides a mechanism for writing primitive Java datatypes
+ * to an <code>OutputStream</code> in a portable way. Data written to
+ * a stream using this class can be read back in using the
+ * <code>DataInputStream</code> class on any platform.
+ *
+ * @see DataInputStream
+ *
+ * @author Aaron M. Renn <arenn@urbanophile.com>
+ * @author Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
+ */
public class DataOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream implements DataOutput
{
+ /**
+ * This is the total number of bytes that have been written to the
+ * stream by this object instance.
+ */
+ protected int written;
+
+ /**
+ * This method initializes an instance of <code>DataOutputStream</code> to
+ * write its data to the specified underlying <code>OutputStream</code>
+ *
+ * @param out The subordinate <code>OutputStream</code> to which this
+ * object will write
+ */
public DataOutputStream (OutputStream out)
{
super (out);
written = 0;
}
+ /**
+ * This method flushes any unwritten bytes to the underlying stream.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs.
+ */
public void flush () throws IOException
{
out.flush();
}
+ /**
+ * This method returns the total number of bytes that have been written to
+ * the underlying output stream so far. This is the value of the
+ * <code>written</code> instance variable
+ *
+ * @return The number of bytes written to the stream.
+ */
public final int size ()
{
return written;
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes the specified byte (passed as an <code>int</code>)
+ * to the underlying output stream.
+ *
+ * @param b The byte to write, passed as an <code>int</code>.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs.
+ */
public synchronized void write (int b) throws IOException
{
out.write(b);
++written;
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes <code>len</code> bytes from the specified byte array
+ * <code>buf</code> starting at position <code>offset</code> into the
+ * buffer to the underlying output stream.
+ *
+ * @param buf The byte array to write from.
+ * @param offset The index into the byte array to start writing from.
+ * @param len The number of bytes to write.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs.
+ */
public synchronized void write (byte[] b, int off, int len)
throws IOException, NullPointerException, IndexOutOfBoundsException
{
@@ -79,28 +129,72 @@ public class DataOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream implements DataOutput
written += len;
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a Java <code>boolean</code> to the underlying output
+ * stream. For a value of <code>true</code>, 1 is written to the stream.
+ * For a value of <code>false</code>, 0 is written.
+ *
+ * @param b The <code>boolean</code> value to write to the stream
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeBoolean (boolean v) throws IOException
{
write (v ? 1 : 0);
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a Java <code>byte</code> value to the underlying
+ * output stream.
+ *
+ * @param b The <code>byte</code> to write to the stream, passed as
+ * the low eight bits of an <code>int</code>.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeByte (int v) throws IOException
{
write (v & 0xff);
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a Java <code>short</code> to the stream, high byte
+ * first. This method requires two bytes to encode the value.
+ *
+ * @param s The <code>short</code> value to write to the stream,
+ * passed as an <code>int</code>.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeShort (int v) throws IOException
{
write ((byte) (0xff & (v >> 8)));
write ((byte) (0xff & v));
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a single <code>char</code> value to the stream,
+ * high byte first.
+ *
+ * @param c The <code>char</code> value to write,
+ * passed as an <code>int</code>.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeChar (int v) throws IOException
{
write ((byte) (0xff & (v >> 8)));
write ((byte) (0xff & v));
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a Java <code>int</code> to the stream, high bytes
+ * first. This method requires four bytes to encode the value.
+ *
+ * @param i The <code>int</code> value to write to the stream.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeInt (int v) throws IOException
{
write ((byte) (0xff & (v >> 24)));
@@ -109,6 +203,14 @@ public class DataOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream implements DataOutput
write ((byte) (0xff & v));
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a Java <code>long</code> to the stream, high bytes
+ * first. This method requires eight bytes to encode the value.
+ *
+ * @param l The <code>long</code> value to write to the stream.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeLong (long v) throws IOException
{
write ((byte) (0xff & (v >> 56)));
@@ -121,16 +223,55 @@ public class DataOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream implements DataOutput
write ((byte) (0xff & v));
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a Java <code>float</code> value to the stream. This
+ * value is written by first calling the method
+ * <code>Float.floatToIntBits</code>
+ * to retrieve an <code>int</code> representing the floating point number,
+ * then writing this <code>int</code> value to the stream exactly the same
+ * as the <code>writeInt()</code> method does.
+ *
+ * @param f The floating point number to write to the stream.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ *
+ * @see writeInt
+ */
public final void writeFloat (float v) throws IOException
{
writeInt (Float.floatToIntBits(v));
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a Java <code>double</code> value to the stream. This
+ * value is written by first calling the method
+ * <code>Double.doubleToLongBits</code>
+ * to retrieve an <code>long</code> representing the floating point number,
+ * then writing this <code>long</code> value to the stream exactly the same
+ * as the <code>writeLong()</code> method does.
+ *
+ * @param d The double precision floating point number to write to
+ * the stream.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ *
+ * @see writeLong
+ */
public final void writeDouble (double v) throws IOException
{
writeLong (Double.doubleToLongBits(v));
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes all the bytes in a <code>String</code> out to the
+ * stream. One byte is written for each character in the
+ * <code>String</code>.
+ * The high eight bits of each character are discarded.
+ *
+ * @param s The <code>String</code> to write to the stream
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeBytes (String s) throws IOException
{
int len = s.length();
@@ -138,6 +279,15 @@ public class DataOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream implements DataOutput
writeByte (s.charAt(i));
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes all the characters in a <code>String</code> to the
+ * stream. There will be two bytes for each character value. The high
+ * byte of the character will be written first.
+ *
+ * @param s The <code>String</code> to write to the stream.
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeChars (String s) throws IOException
{
int len = s.length();
@@ -145,6 +295,33 @@ public class DataOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream implements DataOutput
writeChar (s.charAt(i));
}
+ /**
+ * This method writes a Java <code>String</code> to the stream in a modified
+ * UTF-8 format. First, two bytes are written to the stream indicating the
+ * number of bytes to follow. Note that this is the number of bytes in the
+ * encoded <code>String</code> not the <code>String</code> length. Next
+ * come the encoded characters. Each character in the <code>String</code>
+ * is encoded as either one, two or three bytes. For characters in the
+ * range of <code>\u0001</code> to <\u007F>, one byte is used. The character
+ * value goes into bits 0-7 and bit eight is 0. For characters in the range
+ * of <code>\u0080</code> to <code>\u007FF</code>, two bytes are used. Bits
+ * 6-10 of the character value are encoded bits 0-4 of the first byte, with
+ * the high bytes having a value of "110". Bits 0-5 of the character value
+ * are stored in bits 0-5 of the second byte, with the high bits set to
+ * "10". This type of encoding is also done for the null character
+ * <code>\u0000</code>. This eliminates any C style NUL character values
+ * in the output. All remaining characters are stored as three bytes.
+ * Bits 12-15 of the character value are stored in bits 0-3 of the first
+ * byte. The high bits of the first bytes are set to "1110". Bits 6-11
+ * of the character value are stored in bits 0-5 of the second byte. The
+ * high bits of the second byte are set to "10". And bits 0-5 of the
+ * character value are stored in bits 0-5 of byte three, with the high bits
+ * of that byte set to "10".
+ *
+ * @param s The <code>String</code> to write to the output in UTF format
+ *
+ * @exception IOException If an error occurs
+ */
public final void writeUTF (String s) throws IOException
{
int len = s.length();
@@ -188,6 +365,5 @@ public class DataOutputStream extends FilterOutputStream implements DataOutput
}
}
- // Number of bytes written so far.
- protected int written;
-}
+} // class DataOutputStream
+