Reading and Writing Text files

Here is the file for writing text files. We tried to make it as generic as possible so it can be reused in a variety of contexts. One weakness of the class is that it is up to the user to call the closeFile method. A text file cannot be read or used if it is not closed

WriteFile.java

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package com.spconger.www;

import java.io.*;

public class WriteFile {
 
 
 private String path;
 private PrintWriter writer;
 
 public WriteFile(String path) throws IOException{
  this.path=path;
  createFile();
 }
 
 private void createFile() throws IOException{
  
  
  FileWriter outFile = new FileWriter(path, true);
  writer = new PrintWriter(outFile);
  
 }
 public void addText(String content){
  
  writer.println(content);
 
 }
 
 public void closeFile(){
  writer.close();
 }
 

}

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Here is the ReadFile.Java

package com.spconger.www;

import java.io.*;

public class ReadFile {
 
 private String path;
 
 public ReadFile(String path){
  this.path=path;
 }
 
 public String getText() throws FileNotFoundException ,IOException{
  String content="";
  FileInputStream fstream = new FileInputStream(path);
  DataInputStream in = new DataInputStream(fstream);
  BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(in));
  String strLine;
  while ((strLine=br.readLine()) != null){
   content += (strLine + "\n");
  }
  
  return content;
 }

}

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Here is the Program.java where we test our classes

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package com.spconger.www;

import java.io.IOException;



public class Program {

 /**
  * @param args
  * 
  */
 public static void main(String[] args) {
  
   try {
    WriteFile write = new WriteFile("email.txt");
    write.addText("Steve" + ", steven.conger@seattlecolleges.edu");
    write.addText("George" + ", george@gmail.com");
    write.closeFile();
    
    ReadFile read = new ReadFile("email.txt");
    System.out.println(read.getText());
    
   } catch (IOException e) {
    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
    e.printStackTrace();
   }
   
  
   
  }
  

 }