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The basic runtime tools and interfaces for intarsys components.
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/*
 * Copyright (c) 2007, intarsys consulting GmbH
 *
 * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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package de.intarsys.tools.writer;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.Writer;

/**
 * The console writer wraps System.out in a writer that is never closed
 * accidently.
 * 
 */
public class ConsoleWriter extends Writer {
	/**
	 * ConsoleWriter constructor comment.
	 */
	public ConsoleWriter() {
		super();
	}

	/**
	 * ConsoleWriter constructor comment.
	 * 
	 * @param lock
	 *            java.lang.Object
	 */
	protected ConsoleWriter(Object lock) {
		super(lock);
	}

	/**
	 * Close the stream, flushing it first. Once a stream has been closed,
	 * further write() or flush() invocations will cause an IOException to be
	 * thrown. Closing a previously-closed stream, however, has no effect.
	 * 
	 * @exception IOException
	 *                If an I/O error occurs
	 */
	public void basicClose() throws IOException {
		System.out.close();
	}

	/**
	 * Close the stream, flushing it first. Once a stream has been closed,
	 * further write() or flush() invocations will cause an IOException to be
	 * thrown. Closing a previously-closed stream, however, has no effect.
	 * 
	 * @exception IOException
	 *                If an I/O error occurs
	 */
	public void close() throws IOException {
		// you don't want to close the console
	}

	/**
	 * Flush the stream. If the stream has saved any characters from the various
	 * write() methods in a buffer, write them immediately to their intended
	 * destination. Then, if that destination is another character or byte
	 * stream, flush it. Thus one flush() invocation will flush all the buffers
	 * in a chain of Writers and OutputStreams.
	 * 
	 * @exception IOException
	 *                If an I/O error occurs
	 */
	public void flush() throws IOException {
		System.out.flush();
	}

	/**
	 * Write a portion of an array of characters.
	 * 
	 * @param cbuf
	 *            Array of characters
	 * @param off
	 *            Offset from which to start writing characters
	 * @param len
	 *            Number of characters to write
	 * 
	 * @exception IOException
	 *                If an I/O error occurs
	 */
	public void write(char[] cbuf, int off, int len) throws IOException {
		System.out.print(String.copyValueOf(cbuf, off, len));
	}
}