[筆記]好的Utility Library 帶你上天堂 - 善用Google Guava I/O

有用過Java I/O 的人應該都會覺得很難用又很不直觀，每次都要把InuptStream和OutputStream導來導去，更不用說還要處理一堆Error Handling，真的很麻煩....

下面是用Java原生API去處理File I/O的範例

public static void writeAllText( File file, String contents )
 throws FileNotFoundException, IOException {
 
 if( file == null ) {
  throw new IllegalArgumentException( "File should not be null" );
 }
 if( !file.exists() ) {
  throw new FileNotFoundException( "File does not exist: " + file );
 }
 if( !file.isFile() ) {
  throw new IllegalArgumentException( "Should not be a directory: " + file );
 }
 if (!file.canWrite()) {
  throw new IllegalArgumentException( "File cannot be written: " + file );
 }

 // FileWriter always assumes default encoding is OK
 Writer output = new BufferedWriter( new FileWriter( file ) );
 try {
  output.write( contents );
 }
 finally {
  output.close();
 }
}

但是如果改成用Apache Jakarta Commons 來寫呢？程式碼就可以精簡成下面這樣

String testData = "test data";
try {
 FileUtils.writeStringToFile( new File( "/tmp/test.txt" ), testData, "UTF-8" );
} catch( IOException e ) {
 e.printStackTrace();
}

當然Guava 也有提供類似的功能

String testData = "test data";
try {
 Files.write( testData , new File( "/tmp/temp.txt"), Charsets.UTF_8 );
} catch( IOException e ) {
 e.printStackTrace();
}

所以好的Utility Library 帶你上天堂，請愛用Google Guava I/O....

Reference:
[1] Java I/O Tutorial