Append data into a file using Apache Commons I/O

Question

The FileUtils.writeStringToFile(fileName, text) function of Apache Commons I/O overwrites previous text in a file. I would like to append data to my file. Is th

Answer 1

Careful. That implementation seems to be leaking a file handle...

public final class AppendUtils {

    public static void appendToFile(final InputStream in, final File f) throws IOException {
        OutputStream stream = null;
        try {
            stream = outStream(f);
            IOUtils.copy(in, stream);
        } finally {
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(stream);
        }
    }

    public static void appendToFile(final String in, final File f) throws IOException {
        InputStream stream = null;
        try {
            stream = IOUtils.toInputStream(in);
            appendToFile(stream, f);
        } finally {
            IOUtils.closeQuietly(stream);
        }
    }

    private static OutputStream outStream(final File f) throws IOException {
        return new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(f, true));
    }

    private AppendUtils() {}

}