path: root/java/io/InputStreamReader.java

/* InputStreamReader.java -- Reader than transforms bytes to chars
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package java.io;

import gnu.java.io.EncodingManager;
import gnu.java.io.decode.Decoder;

/**
 * This class reads characters from a byte input stream.   The characters
 * read are converted from bytes in the underlying stream by a 
 * decoding layer.  The decoding layer transforms bytes to chars according
 * to an encoding standard.  There are many available encodings to choose 
 * from.  The desired encoding can either be specified by name, or if no
 * encoding is selected, the system default encoding will be used.  The
 * system default encoding name is determined from the system property
 * <code>file.encoding</code>.  The only encodings that are guaranteed to 
 * be availalbe are "8859_1" (the Latin-1 character set) and "UTF8".
 * Unforunately, Java does not provide a mechanism for listing the
 * ecodings that are supported in a given implementation.
 * <p>
 * Here is a list of standard encoding names that may be available:
 * <p>
 * <ul>
 * <li>8859_1 (ISO-8859-1/Latin-1)</li>
 * <li>8859_2 (ISO-8859-2/Latin-2)</li>
 * <li>8859_3 (ISO-8859-3/Latin-3)</li>
 * <li>8859_4 (ISO-8859-4/Latin-4)</li>
 * <li>8859_5 (ISO-8859-5/Latin-5)</li>
 * <li>8859_6 (ISO-8859-6/Latin-6)</li>
 * <li>8859_7 (ISO-8859-7/Latin-7)</li>
 * <li>8859_8 (ISO-8859-8/Latin-8)</li>
 * <li>8859_9 (ISO-8859-9/Latin-9)</li>
 * <li>ASCII (7-bit ASCII)</li>
 * <li>UTF8 (UCS Transformation Format-8)</li>
 * <li>More later</li>
 * </ul>
 * <p>
 * It is recommended that applications do not use 
 * <code>InputStreamReader</code>'s
 * directly.  Rather, for efficiency purposes, an object of this class
 * should be wrapped by a <code>BufferedReader</code>.
 * <p>
 * Due to a deficiency the Java class library design, there is no standard
 * way for an application to install its own byte-character encoding.
 *
 * @see BufferedReader
 * @see InputStream
 *
 * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
 * @author Per Bothner (bothner@cygnus.com)
 * @date April 22, 1998.  
 */
public class InputStreamReader extends Reader
{
  /*
   * This is the byte-character decoder class that does the reading and
   * translation of bytes from the underlying stream.
   */
  private Decoder in;

  /**
   * This method initializes a new instance of <code>InputStreamReader</code>
   * to read from the specified stream using the default encoding.
   *
   * @param in The <code>InputStream</code> to read from 
   */
  public InputStreamReader(InputStream in)
  {
    if (in == null)
      throw new NullPointerException();
    this.in = EncodingManager.getDecoder(in);
  }

  /**
   * This method initializes a new instance of <code>InputStreamReader</code>
   * to read from the specified stream using a caller supplied character
   * encoding scheme.  Note that due to a deficiency in the Java language
   * design, there is no way to determine which encodings are supported.
   * 
   * @param in The <code>InputStream</code> to read from
   * @param encoding_name The name of the encoding scheme to use
   *
   * @exception UnsupportedEncodingException If the encoding scheme 
   * requested is not available.
   */
  public InputStreamReader(InputStream in, String encoding_name)
    throws UnsupportedEncodingException
  {
    if (in == null
        || encoding_name == null)
      throw new NullPointerException();
    
    this.in = EncodingManager.getDecoder(in, encoding_name);
  }

  /**
   * This method closes this stream, as well as the underlying 
   * <code>InputStream</code>.
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public void close() throws IOException
  {
    synchronized (lock)
      {
	if (in != null)
	  in.close();
	in = null;
      }
  }

  /**
   * This method returns the name of the encoding that is currently in use
   * by this object.  If the stream has been closed, this method is allowed
   * to return <code>null</code>.
   *
   * @return The current encoding name
   */
  public String getEncoding()
  {
    return in != null ? in.getSchemeName() : null;
  }

  /**
   * This method checks to see if the stream is read to be read.  It
   * will return <code>true</code> if is, or <code>false</code> if it is not.
   * If the stream is not ready to be read, it could (although is not required
   * to) block on the next read attempt.
   *
   * @return <code>true</code> if the stream is ready to be read, 
   * <code>false</code> otherwise
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public boolean ready() throws IOException
  {
    if (in == null)
      throw new IOException("Reader has been closed");
    
    return in.ready();
  }

  /**
   * This method reads up to <code>length</code> characters from the stream into
   * the specified array starting at index <code>offset</code> into the
   * array.
   *
   * @param buf The character array to recieve the data read
   * @param offset The offset into the array to start storing characters
   * @param length The requested number of characters to read.
   *
   * @return The actual number of characters read, or -1 if end of stream.
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public int read (char[] buf, int offset, int length) throws IOException
  {
    if (in == null)
      throw new IOException("Reader has been closed");
    
    return in.read(buf, offset, length);
  }

  /**
   * This method reads a single character of data from the stream.
   *
   * @return The char read, as an int, or -1 if end of stream.
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public int read() throws IOException
  {
    if (in == null)
      throw new IOException("Reader has been closed");
    
    return in.read();
  }

   /**
    * Skips the specified number of chars in the stream.  It
    * returns the actual number of chars skipped, which may be less than the
    * requested amount.
    *
    * @param count The requested number of chars to skip
    *
    * @return The actual number of chars skipped.
    *
    * @exception IOException If an error occurs
    */
   public long skip(long count) throws IOException
   {
     if (in == null)
       throw new IOException("Reader has been closed");
     
     return super.skip(count);
  }
}