001/* ObjectOutput.java -- Interface for writing objects to a stream 002 Copyright (C) 1998, 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc. 003 004This file is part of GNU Classpath. 005 006GNU Classpath is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify 007it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by 008the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) 009any later version. 010 011GNU Classpath is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 012WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 013MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU 014General Public License for more details. 015 016You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License 017along with GNU Classpath; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the 018Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 01902110-1301 USA. 020 021Linking this library statically or dynamically with other modules is 022making a combined work based on this library. Thus, the terms and 023conditions of the GNU General Public License cover the whole 024combination. 025 026As a special exception, the copyright holders of this library give you 027permission to link this library with independent modules to produce an 028executable, regardless of the license terms of these independent 029modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting executable under 030terms of your choice, provided that you also meet, for each linked 031independent module, the terms and conditions of the license of that 032module. An independent module is a module which is not derived from 033or based on this library. If you modify this library, you may extend 034this exception to your version of the library, but you are not 035obligated to do so. If you do not wish to do so, delete this 036exception statement from your version. */ 037 038 039package java.io; 040 041/** 042 * This interface extends <code>DataOutput</code> to provide the additional 043 * facility of writing object instances to a stream. It also adds some 044 * additional methods to make the interface more 045 * <code>OutputStream</code> like. 046 * 047 * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com) 048 * 049 * @see DataOutput 050 */ 051public interface ObjectOutput extends DataOutput 052{ 053 /** 054 * This method writes the specified byte to the output stream. 055 * 056 * @param b The byte to write. 057 * 058 * @exception IOException If an error occurs. 059 */ 060 void write(int b) throws IOException; 061 062 /** 063 * This method writes all the bytes in the specified byte array to the 064 * output stream. 065 * 066 * @param buf The array of bytes to write. 067 * 068 * @exception IOException If an error occurs. 069 */ 070 void write(byte[] buf) throws IOException; 071 072 /** 073 * This method writes <code>len</code> bytes from the specified array 074 * starting at index <code>offset</code> into that array. 075 * 076 * @param buf The byte array to write from. 077 * @param offset The index into the byte array to start writing from. 078 * @param len The number of bytes to write. 079 * 080 * @exception IOException If an error occurs. 081 */ 082 void write(byte[] buf, int offset, int len) 083 throws IOException; 084 085 /** 086 * This method writes a object instance to a stream. The format of the 087 * data written is determined by the actual implementation of this method 088 * 089 * @param obj The object to write 090 * 091 * @exception IOException If an error occurs 092 */ 093 void writeObject(Object obj) throws IOException; 094 095 /** 096 * This method causes any buffered data to be flushed out to the underlying 097 * stream 098 * 099 * @exception IOException If an error occurs 100 */ 101 void flush() throws IOException; 102 103 /** 104 * This method closes the underlying stream. 105 * 106 * @exception IOException If an error occurs 107 */ 108 void close() throws IOException; 109 110} // interface ObjectOutput