saving a string data.

[imorio]

I wanted to add a save option to my program. I made a "save()" methode and in that methode I rewrote all the data I need to save into one (big) String. Now I want to find if there is a text file in the same map as the program with the name I give my text files (for example "saved data" or something like that). If there is, I want to rewrite it's content to be the String I made. If there isn't such a file, I want to make it and then fill it with the String.

My problem thus basicly boils down to: how do you find,rewrite and create text files with java?

[masijade]

See the API docs for FileWriter.

[imorio]

That helped, but how do I get the pathname of the place where the program resides? I need that to tell the file object where to point to.

[imorio]

So most of want I want to be done would be achieved by this code:

		File F=new File();//<--gives error
		F.delete();
		F.createNewFile();
		FileWriter FW=new FileWriter(F);
		FW.write(s);

Where my String is called "s". Only I don't have a path to give to the file, because I don't know where the program "lives".

[JosAH]

Only I don't have a path to give to the file, because I don't know where the program "lives".

Maybe the System Properties object can be of help; read which properties are defined (they're listed in the API documentation for the System.getProperties() method). Hint: look at the "user.dir" property.

kind regards,

Jos

[j2me64]

Only I don't have a path to give to the file, because I don't know where the program "lives".

use this example to get the path of the class. please note to replace the class name before the method call class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLoc ation() if you use it in an other class. btw: if you don't give any path your file will be stored in the 'current' path.

import java.io.File;
import java.net.URL;


public class getClassPath {

	public static void main(String[] args) {
		URL mySource = getClassPath.class.getProtectionDomain().getCodeSource().getLocation();
        File sourceFile = new File(getClassPath.getPath());
        System.out.println(sourceFile);
	}
}

[imorio]

My code currently looks like this for saving String s and returning a boolean regarding it's succes:

try
{
	Properties P=System.getProperties();
	File F=new File(P.getProperty("user.dir"));
	F.delete();
	F.createNewFile();
	FileWriter FW= new FileWriter(F);
	FW.write(s);
}
catch(IOException e)
{
	return false;
}
catch(SecurityException e)
{
	return false;
}
return true;

Anything I missed?

[JosAH]

My code currently looks like this for saving String s and returning a boolean regarding it's succes:

try
{
	Properties P=System.getProperties();
	File F=new File(P.getProperty("user.dir"));
	F.delete();
	F.createNewFile();
	FileWriter FW= new FileWriter(F);
	FW.write(s);
}
catch(IOException e)
{
	return false;
}
catch(SecurityException e)
{
	return false;
}
return true;

Anything I missed?

You're trying to delete the user's entire current working directory; that'll probably fail because most likely that directory won't be empty. Is that really what you had in mind?

kind regards,

Jos