Java: reading strings from a random access file with buffered input

Question

I\'ve never had close experiences with Java IO API before and I\'m really frustrated now. I find it hard to believe how strange and complex it is and how hard it could be to

Answer 1

I wrote this code to read utf-8 using randomaccessfiles

//File: CyclicBuffer.java
public class CyclicBuffer {
private static final int size = 3;
private FileChannel channel;
private ByteBuffer buffer = ByteBuffer.allocate(size);

public CyclicBuffer(FileChannel channel) {
    this.channel = channel;
}

private int read() throws IOException {
    return channel.read(buffer);
}

/**
 * Returns the byte read
 *
 * @return byte read -1 - end of file reached
 * @throws IOException
 */
public byte get() throws IOException {
    if (buffer.hasRemaining()) {
        return buffer.get();
    } else {
        buffer.clear();
        int eof = read();
        if (eof == -1) {
            return (byte) eof;
        }
        buffer.flip();
        return buffer.get();
    }
}
}
//File: UTFRandomFileLineReader.java


public class UTFRandomFileLineReader {
private final Charset charset = Charset.forName("utf-8");
private CyclicBuffer buffer;
private ByteBuffer temp = ByteBuffer.allocate(4096);
private boolean eof = false;

public UTFRandomFileLineReader(FileChannel channel) {
    this.buffer = new CyclicBuffer(channel);
}

public String readLine() throws IOException {
    if (eof) {
        return null;
    }
    byte x = 0;
    temp.clear();

    while ((byte) -1 != (x = (buffer.get())) && x != '\n') {
        if (temp.position() == temp.capacity()) {
            temp = addCapacity(temp);
        }
        temp.put(x);
    }
    if (x == -1) {
        eof = true;
    }
    temp.flip();
    if (temp.hasRemaining()) {
        return charset.decode(temp).toString();
    } else {
        return null;
    }
}

private ByteBuffer addCapacity(ByteBuffer temp) {
    ByteBuffer t = ByteBuffer.allocate(temp.capacity() + 1024);
    temp.flip();
    t.put(temp);
    return t;
}

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
    RandomAccessFile file = new RandomAccessFile("/Users/sachins/utf8.txt",
            "r");
    UTFRandomFileLineReader reader = new UTFRandomFileLineReader(file
            .getChannel());
    int i = 1;
    while (true) {
        String s = reader.readLine();
        if (s == null)
            break;
        System.out.println("\n line  " + i++);
        s = s + "\n";
        for (byte b : s.getBytes(Charset.forName("utf-8"))) {
            System.out.printf("%x", b);
        }
        System.out.printf("\n");

    }
}
}