org.apache.wicket.util.io
Class DeferredFileOutputStream

java.lang.Object
  java.io.OutputStream
      org.apache.wicket.util.io.ThresholdingOutputStream
          org.apache.wicket.util.io.DeferredFileOutputStream

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Closeable, java.io.Flushable

public class DeferredFileOutputStream
extends ThresholdingOutputStream

An output stream which will retain data in memory until a specified threshold is reached, and only then commit it to disk. If the stream is closed before the threshold is reached, the data will not be written to disk at all.

This class originated in FileUpload processing. In this use case, you do not know in advance the size of the file being uploaded. If the file is small you want to store it in memory (for speed), but if the file is large you want to store it to file (to avoid memory issues).

Version:

$Id$

Author:

Martin Cooper

Constructor Summary

DeferredFileOutputStream(int threshold, java.io.File outputFile)
Constructs an instance of this class which will trigger an event at the specified threshold, and save data to a file beyond that point.

Method Summary

byte[]	getData() Returns the data for this output stream as an array of bytes, assuming that the data has been retained in memory.
java.io.File	getFile() Returns the data for this output stream as a File, assuming that the data was written to disk.
protected java.io.OutputStream	getStream() Returns the current output stream.
boolean	isInMemory() Determines whether or not the data for this output stream has been retained in memory.
protected void	thresholdReached() Switches the underlying output stream from a memory based stream to one that is backed by disk.

Methods inherited from class org.apache.wicket.util.io.ThresholdingOutputStream

checkThreshold, close, flush, getByteCount, getThreshold, isThresholdExceeded, write, write, write

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

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

Constructor Detail

DeferredFileOutputStream

public DeferredFileOutputStream(int threshold,
                                java.io.File outputFile)

Constructs an instance of this class which will trigger an event at the specified threshold, and save data to a file beyond that point.

Parameters:

threshold - The number of bytes at which to trigger an event.

outputFile - The file to which data is saved beyond the threshold.

Method Detail

getData

public byte[] getData()

Returns the data for this output stream as an array of bytes, assuming that the data has been retained in memory. If the data was written to disk, this method returns null.

Returns:

The data for this output stream, or null if no such data is available.

getFile

public java.io.File getFile()

Returns the data for this output stream as a File, assuming that the data was written to disk. If the data was retained in memory, this method returns null.

Returns:

The file for this output stream, or null if no such file exists.

isInMemory

public boolean isInMemory()

Determines whether or not the data for this output stream has been retained in memory.

Returns:

true if the data is available in memory; false otherwise.

getStream

protected java.io.OutputStream getStream()
                                  throws java.io.IOException

Returns the current output stream. This may be memory based or disk based, depending on the current state with respect to the threshold.

Specified by:

getStream in class ThresholdingOutputStream

Returns:

The underlying output stream.

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an error occurs.

thresholdReached

protected void thresholdReached()
                         throws java.io.IOException

Switches the underlying output stream from a memory based stream to one that is backed by disk. This is the point at which we realize that too much data is being written to keep in memory, so we elect to switch to disk-based storage.

Specified by:

thresholdReached in class ThresholdingOutputStream

Throws:

java.io.IOException - if an error occurs.