Java.io.FileWriter Class

Introduction

The Java.io.FileWriter class is a convenience class for writing character files.Following are the important points about FileWriter −

• The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are acceptable.

• FileWriter is meant for writing streams of characters. For writing streams of raw bytes, use FileOutputStream.

Class declaration

Following is the declaration for Java.io.FileWriter class −

public class FileWriter
   extends OutputStreamWriter

Field

Following are the fields for Java.io.FileWriter class −

• protected Object lock − This is the object used to synchronize operations on this stream.

Class constructors

Class Methods

This class inherits methods from the following classes −

• Java.io.OutputStreamWriter
• java.uti.Writer
• Java.io.Object