Java.io.FileWriter Class

Introduction

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

• The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are acceptable.
• FileWriter is meant for writing streams of characters. For writing streams of raw bytes, use FileOutputStream.

Class declaration

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

public class FileWriter
   extends OutputStreamWriter

Field

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

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

Class constructors

S.N.	Constructor & Description
1	FileWriter(File file) This constructs a FileWriter object given a File object.
2	FileWriter(File file, boolean append) This constructs a FileWriter object given a File object.
3	FileWriter(FileDescriptor fd) This constructs a FileWriter object associated with a file descriptor.
4	FileWriter(String fileName) This constructs a FileWriter object given a file name.
5	FileWriter(String fileName, boolean append) This constructs a FileWriter object given a file name with a boolean indicating whether or not to append the data written.

Class Methods

This class inherits methods from the following classes:

• Java.io.OutputStreamWriter
• java.uti.Writer
• Java.io.Object