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This work corresponds to the API signatures of JSR 219: Foundation Profile 1.1. In the event of a discrepency between this work and the JSR 219 specification, which is available at http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=219, the latter takes precedence. */ package java.io; /** * The DataInput interface provides * for reading bytes from a binary stream and * reconstructing from them data in any of * the Java primitive types. There is also * a * facility for reconstructing a String * from data in Java modified UTF-8 format. *

* It is generally true of all the reading * routines in this interface that if end of * file is reached before the desired number * of bytes has been read, an EOFException * (which is a kind of IOException) * is thrown. If any byte cannot be read for * any reason other than end of file, an IOException * other than EOFException is * thrown. In particular, an IOException * may be thrown if the input stream has been * closed. * * @author Frank Yellin * @version 1.16, 02/02/00 * @see java.io.DataInputStream * @see java.io.DataOutput * @since JDK1.0 */ public interface DataInput { /** * Reads some bytes from an input * stream and stores them into the buffer * array b. The number of bytes * read is equal * to the length of b. *

* This method blocks until one of the * following conditions occurs:

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• b.length * bytes of input data are available, in which * case a normal return is made. * *
• End of * file is detected, in which case an EOFException * is thrown. * *
• An I/O error occurs, in * which case an IOException other * than EOFException is thrown. *

* If b is null, * a NullPointerException is thrown. * If b.length is zero, then * no bytes are read. Otherwise, the first * byte read is stored into element b[0], * the next one into b[1], and * so on. * If an exception is thrown from * this method, then it may be that some but * not all bytes of b have been * updated with data from the input stream. * * @param b the buffer into which the data is read. * @exception EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading * all the bytes. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public void readFully(byte[] b) throws IOException; /** * Reads len * bytes from * an input stream. *

* This method * blocks until one of the following conditions * occurs:

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*
• len bytes * of input data are available, in which case * a normal return is made. * *
• End of file * is detected, in which case an EOFException * is thrown. * *
• An I/O error occurs, in * which case an IOException other * than EOFException is thrown. *

* If b is null, * a NullPointerException is thrown. * If off is negative, or len * is negative, or off+len is * greater than the length of the array b, * then an IndexOutOfBoundsException * is thrown. * If len is zero, * then no bytes are read. Otherwise, the first * byte read is stored into element b[off], * the next one into b[off+1], * and so on. The number of bytes read is, * at most, equal to len. * * @param b the buffer into which the data is read. * @param off an int specifying the offset into the data. * @param len an int specifying the number of bytes to read. * @exception EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading * all the bytes. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public void readFully(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException; /** * Makes an attempt to skip over * n bytes * of data from the input * stream, discarding the skipped bytes. However, * it may skip * over some smaller number of * bytes, possibly zero. This may result from * any of a * number of conditions; reaching * end of file before n bytes * have been skipped is * only one possibility. * This method never throws an EOFException. * The actual * number of bytes skipped is returned. * * @param n the number of bytes to be skipped. * @return the number of bytes actually skipped. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public int skipBytes(int n) throws IOException; /** * Reads one input byte and returns * true if that byte is nonzero, * false if that byte is zero. * This method is suitable for reading * the byte written by the writeBoolean * method of interface DataOutput. * * @return the boolean value read. * @exception EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading * all the bytes. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public boolean readBoolean() throws IOException; /** * Reads and returns one input byte. * The byte is treated as a signed value in * the range -128 through 127, * inclusive. * This method is suitable for * reading the byte written by the writeByte * method of interface DataOutput. * * @return the 8-bit value read. * @exception EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading * all the bytes. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public byte readByte() throws IOException; /** * Reads one input byte, zero-extends * it to type int, and returns * the result, which is therefore in the range * 0 * through 255. * This method is suitable for reading * the byte written by the writeByte * method of interface DataOutput * if the argument to writeByte * was intended to be a value in the range * 0 through 255. * * @return the unsigned 8-bit value read. * @exception EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading * all the bytes. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public int readUnsignedByte() throws IOException; /** * Reads two input bytes and returns * a short value. Let a * be the first byte read and b * be the second byte. The value * returned * is: *

(short)((a << 8) * | (b & 0xff))
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(((a & 0xff) << 8) | (b & 0xff))
     * 

(char)((a << 8) | (b & 0xff))
     * 

     * 
     * (((a & 0xff) << 24) | ((b & 0xff) << 16) |
     *  ((c & 0xff) << 8) | (d & 0xff))
     * 

 
     * (((long)(a & 0xff) << 56) |
     *  ((long)(b & 0xff) << 48) |
     *  ((long)(c & 0xff) << 40) |
     *  ((long)(d & 0xff) << 32) |
     *  ((long)(e & 0xff) << 24) |
     *  ((long)(f & 0xff) << 16) |
     *  ((long)(g & 0xff) <<  8) |
     *  ((long)(h & 0xff)))
     * 

* This method is suitable * for reading bytes written by the writeLong * method of interface DataOutput. * * @return the long value read. * @exception EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading * all the bytes. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public long readLong() throws IOException; /** * Reads four input bytes and returns * a float value. It does this * by first constructing an int * value in exactly the manner * of the readInt * method, then converting this int * value to a float in * exactly the manner of the method Float.intBitsToFloat. * This method is suitable for reading * bytes written by the writeFloat * method of interface DataOutput. * * @return the float value read. * @exception EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading * all the bytes. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public float readFloat() throws IOException; /** * Reads eight input bytes and returns * a double value. It does this * by first constructing a long * value in exactly the manner * of the readlong * method, then converting this long * value to a double in exactly * the manner of the method Double.longBitsToDouble. * This method is suitable for reading * bytes written by the writeDouble * method of interface DataOutput. * * @return the double value read. * @exception EOFException if this stream reaches the end before reading * all the bytes. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public double readDouble() throws IOException; /** * Reads the next line of text from the input stream. * It reads successive bytes, converting * each byte separately into a character, * until it encounters a line terminator or * end of * file; the characters read are then * returned as a String. Note * that because this * method processes bytes, * it does not support input of the full Unicode * character set. *

* If end of file is encountered * before even one byte can be read, then null * is returned. Otherwise, each byte that is * read is converted to type char * by zero-extension. If the character '\n' * is encountered, it is discarded and reading * ceases. If the character '\r' * is encountered, it is discarded and, if * the following byte converts to the * character '\n', then that is * discarded also; reading then ceases. If * end of file is encountered before either * of the characters '\n' and * '\r' is encountered, reading * ceases. Once reading has ceased, a String * is returned that contains all the characters * read and not discarded, taken in order. * Note that every character in this string * will have a value less than \u0100, * that is, (char)256. * * @return the next line of text from the input stream, * or null if the end of file is * encountered before a byte can be read. * @exception IOException if an I/O error occurs. */ public String readLine() throws IOException; /** * Reads in a string that has been encoded using a modified UTF-8 format. * The general contract of readUTF * is that it reads a representation of a Unicode * character string encoded in Java modified * UTF-8 format; this string of characters * is then returned as a String. *

* First, two bytes are read and used to * construct an unsigned 16-bit integer in * exactly the manner of the readUnsignedShort * method . This integer value is called the * UTF length and specifies the number * of additional bytes to be read. These bytes * are then converted to characters by considering * them in groups. The length of each group * is computed from the value of the first * byte of the group. The byte following a * group, if any, is the first byte of the * next group. *

* If the first byte of a group * matches the bit pattern 0xxxxxxx * (where x means "may be 0 * or 1"), then the group consists * of just that byte. The byte is zero-extended * to form a character. *

* If the first byte * of a group matches the bit pattern 110xxxxx, * then the group consists of that byte a * and a second byte b. If there * is no byte b (because byte * a was the last of the bytes * to be read), or if byte b does * not match the bit pattern 10xxxxxx, * then a UTFDataFormatException * is thrown. Otherwise, the group is converted * to the character:

*

(char)(((a& 0x1F) << 6) | (b & 0x3F))
     * 

*

     * (char)(((a & 0x0F) << 12) | ((b & 0x3F) << 6) | (c & 0x3F))
     * 

* If end of file is encountered * at any time during this entire process, * then an EOFException is thrown. *

* After every group has been converted to * a character by this process, the characters * are gathered, in the same order in which * their corresponding groups were read from * the input stream, to form a String, * which is returned. *