Java Text File Write writeStringToFile(String text, File file)

Description

(Near-)atomically create or overwrite the specified file with the specified content, encoded as UTF-8.

License

Apache License

Declaration

public static void writeStringToFile(String text, File file) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*/*from ww w  . ja  v  a2s  .  co  m*/
 * Scalyr client library
 * Copyright 2012 Scalyr, Inc.
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 * 
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 * 
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

import java.io.File;

import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;

public class Main {
    /**
     * (Near-)atomically create or overwrite the specified file with the specified content,
     * encoded as UTF-8.
     */
    public static void writeStringToFile(String text, File file) {
        try {
            // To ensure atomicity, we write to a side file and then rename into place.
            File tempFile = File.createTempFile(file.getName(), ".tmp",
                    file.getParentFile());

            FileOutputStream output = new FileOutputStream(tempFile, false);
            OutputStreamWriter writer = new OutputStreamWriter(output);
            writer.write(text);
            writer.flush();
            writer.close();

            if (file.exists())
                file.delete();
            tempFile.renameTo(file);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
            throw new RuntimeException(ex);
        }
    }
}

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