/* OutputStreamWriter.java -- Writer that converts chars to bytes
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package java.io;

import gnu.java.io.EncodingManager;
import gnu.java.io.encode.Encoder;

/**
 * This class writes characters to an output stream that is byte oriented
 * It converts the chars that are written to bytes using an encoding layer,
 * which is specific to a particular encoding standard.  The desired
 * encoding can either be specified by name, or if no encoding is specified,
 * the system default encoding will be used.  The system default encoding
 * name is determined from the system property <code>file.encoding</code>.
 * The only encodings that are guaranteed to be available are "8859_1"
 * (the Latin-1 character set) and "UTF8".  Unfortunately, Java does not
 * provide a mechanism for listing the encodings that are supported in
 * a given implementation.
 * <p>
 * Here is a list of standard encoding names that may be available:
 * <p>
 * <ul>
 * <li>8859_1 (ISO-8859-1/Latin-1)
 * <li>8859_2 (ISO-8859-2/Latin-2)
 * <li>8859_3 (ISO-8859-3/Latin-3)
 * <li>8859_4 (ISO-8859-4/Latin-4)
 * <li>8859_5 (ISO-8859-5/Latin-5)
 * <li>8859_6 (ISO-8859-6/Latin-6)
 * <li>8859_7 (ISO-8859-7/Latin-7)
 * <li>8859_8 (ISO-8859-8/Latin-8)
 * <li>8859_9 (ISO-8859-9/Latin-9)
 * <li>ASCII (7-bit ASCII)
 * <li>UTF8 (UCS Transformation Format-8)
 * <li>More Later
 * </ul>
 *
 * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
 * @author Per Bothner (bothner@cygnus.com)
 * @date April 17, 1998.  
 */
public class OutputStreamWriter extends Writer
{

  /**
   * This is the byte-character encoder class that does the writing and
   * translation of characters to bytes before writing to the underlying
   * class.
   */
  private Encoder out;

  /**
   * This method initializes a new instance of <code>OutputStreamWriter</code>
   * to write to the specified stream using a caller supplied character
   * encoding scheme.  Note that due to a deficiency in the Java language
   * design, there is no way to determine which encodings are supported.
   *
   * @param out The <code>OutputStream</code> to write to
   * @param encoding_scheme The name of the encoding scheme to use for 
   * character to byte translation
   *
   * @exception UnsupportedEncodingException If the named encoding is 
   * not available.
   */
  public OutputStreamWriter (OutputStream out, String encoding_scheme) 
    throws UnsupportedEncodingException
  {
    this.out = EncodingManager.getEncoder (out, encoding_scheme);
  }

  /**
   * This method initializes a new instance of <code>OutputStreamWriter</code>
   * to write to the specified stream using the default encoding.
   *
   * @param out The <code>OutputStream</code> to write to
   */
  public OutputStreamWriter (OutputStream out)
  {
    this.out = EncodingManager.getEncoder (out);
  }

  /**
   * This method closes this stream, and the underlying 
   * <code>OutputStream</code>
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public void close () throws IOException
  {
    out.close ();
  }

  /**
   * This method returns the name of the character encoding scheme currently
   * in use by this stream.  If the stream has been closed, then this method
   * may return <code>null</code>.
   *
   * @return The encoding scheme name
   */
  public String getEncoding ()
  {
    return out != null ? out.getSchemeName () : null;
  }

  /**
   * This method flushes any buffered bytes to the underlying output sink.
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public void flush () throws IOException
  {
    out.flush ();
  }

  /**
   * This method writes <code>count</code> characters from the specified
   * array to the output stream starting at position <code>offset</code>
   * into the array.
   *
   * @param buf The array of character to write from
   * @param offset The offset into the array to start writing chars from
   * @param count The number of chars to write.
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public void write (char[] buf, int offset, int count) throws IOException
  {
    out.write (buf, offset, count);
  }

  /**
   * This method writes <code>count</code> bytes from the specified 
   * <code>String</code> starting at position <code>offset</code> into the
   * <code>String</code>.
   *
   * @param str The <code>String</code> to write chars from
   * @param offset The position in the <code>String</code> to start 
   * writing chars from
   * @param count The number of chars to write
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public void write (String str, int offset, int count) throws IOException
  {
    out.write (str, offset, count);
  }

  /**
   * This method writes a single character to the output stream.
   *
   * @param ch The char to write, passed as an int.
   *
   * @exception IOException If an error occurs
   */
  public void write (int ch) throws IOException
  {
    out.write (ch);
  }

} // class OutputStreamWriter

