THE PACKAGE JAVA.IO

java.io.DataInputStream

22.11

22.11 The Class

java.io.DataInputStream

A data input stream provides facilities for reading bytes from an input source and

interpreting specific character sequences as representing data of diverse types.

public class DataInputStream extends FilterInputStream

implements DataInput {

public DataInputStream(InputStream in);

public final void readFully(byte[] b)

throws IOException, NullPointerException;

public final void readFully(byte[] b, int off, int len)

throws IOException, NullPointerException,

IndexOutOfBoundsException;

public final int skipBytes(int n) throws IOException;

public final boolean readBoolean() throws IOException;

public final byte readByte() throws IOException;

public final int readUnsignedByte() throws IOException;

public final short readShort() throws IOException;

public final int readUnsignedShort() throws IOException;

public final char readChar() throws IOException;

public final int readInt() throws IOException;

public final long readLong() throws IOException;

public final float readFloat() throws IOException;

public final double readDouble() throws IOException;

public final String readLine() throws IOException;

public final String readUTF() throws IOException;

public final static String readUTF(DataInput in)

throws IOException;

}

22.11.1

public DataInputStream(InputStream in)

This constructor initializes a newly created

DataInputStream

 by saving its argu 

ment, the input stream

in

, for later use.

22.11.2

public final void readFully(byte[] b)

throws IOException, NullPointerException

See the general contract of the

readFully

 method of

DataInput

 ( 22.1.1).

Bytes for this operation are read from the contained input stream.

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