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FileOutputStream in Java.
This writes data into a specific file or, a file descriptor (byte by byte). It is usually used to write the contents of a file with raw bytes, such as images.
To write the contents of a file using this class −
First of all, you need to instantiate this class by passing a string variable or a File object, representing the path of the file to be read.
FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream("file_path");
or,
File file = new File("file_path"); FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream (file);You can also instantiate a FileOutputStream class by passing a FileDescriptor object.
FileDescriptor descriptor = new FileDescriptor(); FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream(descriptor);
Then write the data to a specified file using either of the variants of write() method −
int write(int b) − This method accepts a single byte and writes it to the current OutputStream.
int write(byte[] b) − This method accepts a byte array as a parameter and writes data from it to the current OutputStream.
int write(byte[] b, int off, int len) − This method accepts a byte array, its offset (int) and, its length (int) as parameters and writes its contents to the current OutputStream.
Example
Assume we have the following image in the directory D:/images
Following program reads the contents of the above image and writes it back to another file using the FileOutputStream class.
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
public class FileInputStreamExample {
public static void main(String args[]) throws IOException {
//Creating a File object
File file = new File("D:/images/javafx.jpg");
//Creating a FileInputStream object
FileInputStream inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
//Creating a byte array
byte bytes[] = new byte[(int) file.length()];
//Reading data into the byte array
int numOfBytes = inputStream.read(bytes);
System.out.println("Data copied successfully...");
//Creating a FileInputStream object
FileOutputStream outputStream = new FileOutputStream("D:/images/output.jpg");
//Writing the contents of the Output Stream to a file
outputStream.write(bytes);
System.out.println("Data written successfully...");
}
}Output
Data copied successfully... Data written successfully...
If you verify the given path you can observe the generated image as −
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