name.alessiosaltarin.utils
Class FileManager

java.lang.Object
  name.alessiosaltarin.utils.FileManager

public final class FileManager
extends java.lang.Object

Saving/loading text files.

Since:

04/2001

Version:

1.2

Author:

Alessio Saltarin 2001/2002/2003

Method Summary

boolean	appendToFile(java.lang.String fileName, java.lang.String fileString) Appends contents to a file
boolean	copyFile(java.lang.String sourceFile, java.lang.String outputFile) Copy a file.
boolean	existFile(java.lang.String fileName) Checks if file exists
java.lang.String	getErrorMsg() Returns error message in case of error.
static FileManager	getReference() Returns handle to the object (singleton)
static void	main(java.lang.String[] args) Deprecated.
java.lang.String	openFile(java.lang.String fileName) Contents of opened file as a string.
boolean	saveFile(java.lang.String fileName, java.lang.String fileString) Saves a string into a file.
boolean	saveFile(java.lang.String fileName, java.lang.String fileString, boolean append) Saves a string into a file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Method Detail

getReference

public static FileManager getReference()

Returns handle to the object (singleton)

Returns:

FileManager reference

getErrorMsg

public java.lang.String getErrorMsg()

Returns error message in case of error.

Returns:

error message

openFile

public java.lang.String openFile(java.lang.String fileName)

Contents of opened file as a string.

Parameters:

fileName - complete path to file

Returns:

contents of the file

copyFile

public boolean copyFile(java.lang.String sourceFile,
                        java.lang.String outputFile)

Copy a file.

Parameters:

sourceFile - Full path to existing file

outputFile - Full path to file to be created

Returns:

true if file is successfully copied

Since:

September 2002

existFile

public boolean existFile(java.lang.String fileName)

Checks if file exists

Parameters:

fileName - complete path

Returns:

true if file exists

saveFile

public boolean saveFile(java.lang.String fileName,
                        java.lang.String fileString)

Saves a string into a file.

Parameters:

fileName - complete path to the new file

fileString - file contents

Returns:

true if saving was correctly done

saveFile

public boolean saveFile(java.lang.String fileName,
                        java.lang.String fileString,
                        boolean append)

Saves a string into a file.

Parameters:

fileName - complete path to the new file

fileString - file contents

append - true if you want to append to an existing file

Returns:

true if saving was correctly done

appendToFile

public boolean appendToFile(java.lang.String fileName,
                            java.lang.String fileString)

Appends contents to a file

Parameters:

fileName - complete path to the new file

fileString - file contents

Returns:

true if saving was correctly done

main

public static void main(java.lang.String[] args)

Deprecated.

For test purposes, only

Parameters:

args - x