Module ibm.jzos
Package com.ibm.jzos

Class TranscodingPrintStream

All Implemented Interfaces:
Closeable, Flushable, Appendable, AutoCloseable

public class TranscodingPrintStream extends PrintStream
A subclass of PrintStream that sets an encoding on its OutputStreamWriter and also transcodes any write(byte[]) messages that are sent to it when it is treated as an OutputStream. This avoids the problem caused when an application wraps System.out or System.err in its own PrintWriter which would override and lose the PrintStream's encoding.

When both source and target codepages are single byte encodings, (e.g. ISO-8859-1, IBM-1047) a direct map can be used, and is the most efficient way to transcode. If one or both of the codepages are multi-byte (e.g. UTF-8) the CharsetEncoder and CharsetDecoder classes need to be used. For this case, the Transcoder class is used. It provides a protocol that accepts an array of source codepage encoded bytes, and writes the target codepage encoded bytes to a supplied output stream.

  • Constructor Details

    • TranscodingPrintStream

      public TranscodingPrintStream(OutputStream out, boolean autoFlush, String targetEncoding, boolean enable) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
      Create a new transcoding print stream.
      Parameters:
      out - The output stream to which values and objects will be printed
      autoFlush - A boolean; if true, the output buffer will be flushed whenever a byte array is written, one of the println methods is invoked, or a newline character or byte ('\n') is written
      targetEncoding - The String naming the encoding to use, both for the internal OutputStreamWriter and for translating write(byte[]) IOStream messages sent to this object
      Throws:
      UnsupportedEncodingException
      See Also:
    • TranscodingPrintStream

      public TranscodingPrintStream(OutputStream out, boolean autoFlush, String sourceEncoding, String targetEncoding, boolean enable) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
      Create a new transcoding print stream.
      Parameters:
      out - The output stream to which values and objects will be printed
      autoFlush - A boolean; if true, the output buffer will be flushed whenever a byte array is written, one of the println methods is invoked, or a newline character or byte ('\n') is written
      sourceEncoding - The String naming the encoding that is the source encoding for the transcoder. If null, the default will be used (the "file.encoding" System property)
      targetEncoding - The String naming the encoding to use, both for the internal OutputStreamWriter and for translating write(byte[]) IOStream messages sent to this object
      Throws:
      UnsupportedEncodingException
      See Also:
  • Method Details

    • write

      public void write(int b)
      Override PrintStream.write(int b) to transcode bytes from the default encoding to the target encoding.
      Overrides:
      write in class PrintStream
    • write

      public void write(byte[] buf, int off, int len)
      Override PrintStream.write(byte[], int, int) to transcode bytes from the default encoding to the target encoding.
      Overrides:
      write in class PrintStream
    • isActive

      public boolean isActive()
      Answer whether this PrintStream is actively transcoding. If false, the write() methods default to the superclass behavior.
    • getTranslateTable

      public byte[] getTranslateTable()
      Answer the translate table in place. Will return null if !isActive() or either encoding is multi-byte.
    • flush

      public void flush()
      Overridden to flush the transcoder if one is being used.
      Specified by:
      flush in interface Flushable
      Overrides:
      flush in class PrintStream