DotTerminatedMessageWriter is a class used to write messages to a server that are terminated by a single dot followed by a <CR><LF> sequence and with double dots appearing at the begining of lines which do not signal end of message yet start with a dot. Various Internet protocols such as NNTP and POP3 produce messages of this type.

This class handles the doubling of line-starting periods, converts single linefeeds to NETASCII newlines, and on closing will send the final message terminator dot and NETASCII newline sequence.

Method Summary

void

close()

Flushes the underlying output, writing all buffered output, but doesn't actually close the underlying stream.

void

flush()

Flushes the underlying output, writing all buffered output.

void

write(int ch)

Writes a character to the output.

void

write(char[] buffer, int offset, int length)

Writes a number of characters from a character array to the output starting from a given offset.

void

write(char[] buffer)

Writes a character array to the output.

void

write(String string)

Writes a String to the output.

void

write(String string, int offset, int length)

Writes part of a String to the output starting from a given offset.

Constructor Details

DotTerminatedMessageWriter

public DotTerminatedMessageWriter(Writer output)

Creates a DotTerminatedMessageWriter that wraps an existing Writer output destination.

Parameters:

output - The Writer output destination to write the message.

Method Details

close

public void close()

Flushes the underlying output, writing all buffered output, but doesn't actually close the underlying stream. The underlying stream may still be used for communicating with the server and therefore is not closed.

Throws:

- If an error occurs while writing to the underlying output or closing the Writer.

flush

public void flush()

Flushes the underlying output, writing all buffered output.

Throws:

- If an error occurs while writing to the underlying output.

write

public void write(String string)

Writes a String to the output.

Parameters:

string - The String to write.

Throws:

- If an error occurs while writing to the underlying output.

write

public void write(String string, int offset, int length)

Writes part of a String to the output starting from a given offset.

Parameters:

string - The String to write.
offset - The offset into the String at which to start copying data.
length - The number of characters to write.

Throws:

- If an error occurs while writing to the underlying output.

write

public void write(char[] buffer)

Writes a character array to the output.

Parameters:

buffer - The character array to write.

Throws:

- If an error occurs while writing to the underlying output.

write

public void write(char[] buffer, int offset, int length)

Writes a number of characters from a character array to the output starting from a given offset.

Parameters:

buffer - The character array to write.
offset - The offset into the array at which to start copying data.
length - The number of characters to write.

Throws:

- If an error occurs while writing to the underlying output.

write

public void write(int ch)

Writes a character to the output. Note that a call to this method may result in multiple writes to the underling Writer in order to convert naked linefeeds to NETASCII line separators and to double line-leading periods. This is transparent to the programmer and is only mentioned for completeness.

Parameters:

ch - The character to write.

Throws:

- If an error occurs while writing to the underlying output.

Class DotTerminatedMessageWriter

Constructor Summary

Method Summary

Constructor Details

DotTerminatedMessageWriter

Method Details

close

flush

write

write

write

write

write

void	close() Flushes the underlying output, writing all buffered output, but doesn't actually close the underlying stream.
void	flush() Flushes the underlying output, writing all buffered output.
void	write(int ch) Writes a character to the output.
void	write(char[] buffer, int offset, int length) Writes a number of characters from a character array to the output starting from a given offset.
void	write(char[] buffer) Writes a character array to the output.
void	write(String string) Writes a String to the output.
void	write(String string, int offset, int length) Writes part of a String to the output starting from a given offset.