Java.io.FileReader Class

Introduction

The Java.io.FileReader class is a convenience class for reading character files.Following are the important points about FileReader:

• The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are appropriate.
• FileReader is meant for reading streams of characters. For reading streams of raw bytes, use FileInputStream.

Class declaration

Following is the declaration for Java.io.FileReader class:

public class FileReader
   extends InputStreamReader

Field

Following are the fields for Java.io.FileReader class:

• protected Object lock -- This is the object used to synchronize operations on this stream.

Class constructors

S.N.	Constructor & Description
1	FileReader(File file) This creates a new FileReader, given the File to read from.
2	FileReader(FileDescriptor file) This creates a new FileReader, given the FileDescriptor to read from.
3	FileReader(String fileName) This creates a new FileReader, given the name of the file to read from.

Class Methods

This class inherits methods from the following classes:

• Java.io.InputStreamReader
• java.uti.Reader
• Java.io.Object