Package nl.talsmasoftware.umldoclet.rendering.writers

Class StringBufferingWriter

java.lang.Object

java.io.Writer

nl.talsmasoftware.umldoclet.rendering.writers.DelegatingWriter

nl.talsmasoftware.umldoclet.rendering.writers.StringBufferingWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

Closeable, Flushable, Appendable, AutoCloseable

public class StringBufferingWriter
extends DelegatingWriter

Delegates to another Writer retaining a StringBuffer of all written characters.

Manipulating the contained StringBuffer is not thread-safe.

Author:

Sjoerd Talsma

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class nl.talsmasoftware.umldoclet.rendering.writers.DelegatingWriter

delegates

Fields inherited from class java.io.Writer

lock

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
StringBufferingWriter(Writer delegate)	Constructor.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
StringBuffer	getBuffer()	A buffer of the written characters.
String	toString()

Methods inherited from class nl.talsmasoftware.umldoclet.rendering.writers.DelegatingWriter

close, flush, write

Methods inherited from class java.io.Writer

append, append, append, nullWriter, write, write, write, write

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Details

StringBufferingWriter

public StringBufferingWriter(Writer delegate)

Constructor. Creates a new writer that delegates to the given writer and also retains a StringBuffer of all written characters.

Parameters:

delegate - The delegate writer to write to.

Method Details

getBuffer

public StringBuffer getBuffer()

A buffer of the written characters.

Changes to this buffer do not propagate towards the delegate writer. Furthermore, write operations on this writer and buffer changes are not considered thread-safe and should be avoided.

Returns:

A StringBuffer of the written characters.

toString

public String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class DelegatingWriter

Returns:

The name of this class plus the wrapped delegate writer.