Java-IO之字符输入输出流（Reader和Writer）

以字符为单位的输入流的公共父类是Reader：

以字符为单位的输出流的超类是Writer：

基于JDK8的Reader的源码：

public abstract class Reader implements Readable, Closeable {

    /**
     * The object used to synchronize operations on this stream.  For
     * efficiency, a character-stream object may use an object other than
     * itself to protect critical sections.  A subclass should therefore use
     * the object in this field rather than <tt>this</tt> or a synchronized
     * method.
     */
    protected Object lock;

    /**
     * Creates a new character-stream reader whose critical sections will
     * synchronize on the reader itself.
     */
    protected Reader() {
        this.lock = this;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new character-stream reader whose critical sections will
     * synchronize on the given object.
     *
     * @param lock  The Object to synchronize on.
     */
    protected Reader(Object lock) {
        if (lock == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException();
        }
        this.lock = lock;
    }
    //尝试读字符进字符缓冲
    public int read(java.nio.CharBuffer target) throws IOException {
        int len = target.remaining();
        char[] cbuf = new char[len];
        int n = read(cbuf, 0, len);
        if (n > 0)
            target.put(cbuf, 0, n);
        return n;
    }
    //读单个字符，方法会阻塞直到字符是有效，出现IO错误，或者流完毕
    public int read() throws IOException {
        char cb[] = new char[1];
        if (read(cb, 0, 1) == -1)
            return -1;
        else
            return cb[0];
    }
    //读字符数组
    public int read(char cbuf[]) throws IOException {
        return read(cbuf, 0, cbuf.length);
    }
    abstract public int read(char cbuf[], int off, int len) throws IOException;

    /** Maximum skip-buffer size */
    private static final int maxSkipBufferSize = 8192;

    /** Skip buffer, null until allocated */
    private char skipBuffer[] = null;

    /**
     * Skips characters.  This method will block until some characters are
     * available, an I/O error occurs, or the end of the stream is reached.
     *
     * @param  n  The number of characters to skip
     *
     * @return    The number of characters actually skipped
     *
     * @exception  IllegalArgumentException  If <code>n</code> is negative.
     * @exception  IOException  If an I/O error occurs
     */
    public long skip(long n) throws IOException {
        if (n < 0L)
            throw new IllegalArgumentException("skip value is negative");
        int nn = (int) Math.min(n, maxSkipBufferSize);
        synchronized (lock) {
            if ((skipBuffer == null) || (skipBuffer.length < nn))
                skipBuffer = new char[nn];
            long r = n;
            while (r > 0) {
                int nc = read(skipBuffer, 0, (int)Math.min(r, nn));
                if (nc == -1)
                    break;
                r -= nc;
            }
            return n - r;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Tells whether this stream is ready to be read.
     *
     */
    //是否准备好去读
    public boolean ready() throws IOException {
        return false;
    }

    //不支持标记
    public boolean markSupported() {
        return false;
    }
    //会抛出错误
    public void mark(int readAheadLimit) throws IOException {
        throw new IOException("mark() not supported");
    }
    //不支持reset，会抛出错误
    public void reset() throws IOException {
        throw new IOException("reset() not supported");
    }
    //关闭资源
    abstract public void close() throws IOException;

}

基于JDK8的Writer源码：

public abstract class Writer implements Appendable, Closeable, Flushable {

    /**
     * Temporary buffer used to hold writes of strings and single characters
     */
    //写缓冲数组
    private char[] writeBuffer;

    /**
     * Size of writeBuffer, must be >= 1
     */
    //写缓冲数组默认大小是1024
    private static final int WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE = 1024;

    /**
     * The object used to synchronize operations on this stream.  For
     * efficiency, a character-stream object may use an object other than
     * itself to protect critical sections.  A subclass should therefore use
     * the object in this field rather than <tt>this</tt> or a synchronized
     * method.
     */
    //对象
    protected Object lock;

    /**
     * Creates a new character-stream writer whose critical sections will
     * synchronize on the writer itself.
     */
    //
    protected Writer() {
        this.lock = this;
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new character-stream writer whose critical sections will
     * synchronize on the given object.
     *
     * @param  lock
     *         Object to synchronize on
     */
    protected Writer(Object lock) {
        if (lock == null) {
            throw new NullPointerException();
        }
        this.lock = lock;
    }

    /**
     * Writes a single character.  The character to be written is contained in
     * the 16 low-order bits of the given integer value; the 16 high-order bits
     * are ignored.
     *
     * <p> Subclasses that intend to support efficient single-character output
     * should override this method.
     *
     * @param  c
     *         int specifying a character to be written
     *
     * @throws  IOException
     *          If an I/O error occurs
     */
    //写一个字符
    public void write(int c) throws IOException {
        synchronized (lock) {
            if (writeBuffer == null){
                writeBuffer = new char[WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE];
            }
            writeBuffer[0] = (char) c;
            write(writeBuffer, 0, 1);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Writes an array of characters.
     *
     * @param  cbuf
     *         Array of characters to be written
     *
     * @throws  IOException
     *          If an I/O error occurs
     */
    //写一个字符数组
    public void write(char cbuf[]) throws IOException {
        write(cbuf, 0, cbuf.length);
    }

    abstract public void write(char cbuf[], int off, int len) throws IOException;
    //写一个String
    public void write(String str) throws IOException {
        write(str, 0, str.length());
    }
    //写一个字符串的一部分
    public void write(String str, int off, int len) throws IOException {
        synchronized (lock) {
            char cbuf[];
            if (len <= WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE) {
                if (writeBuffer == null) {
                    writeBuffer = new char[WRITE_BUFFER_SIZE];
                }
                cbuf = writeBuffer;
            } else {    // Don't permanently allocate very large buffers.
                cbuf = new char[len];
            }
            str.getChars(off, (off + len), cbuf, 0);
            write(cbuf, 0, len);
        }
    }
    //追加
    public Writer append(CharSequence csq) throws IOException {
        if (csq == null)
            write("null");
        else
            write(csq.toString());
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Appends a subsequence of the specified character sequence to this writer.
     * <tt>Appendable</tt>.
     *
     * <p> An invocation of this method of the form <tt>out.append(csq, start,
     * end)</tt> when <tt>csq</tt> is not <tt>null</tt> behaves in exactly the
     * same way as the invocation
     *
     * <pre>
     *     out.write(csq.subSequence(start, end).toString()) </pre>
     *
     * @param  csq
     *         The character sequence from which a subsequence will be
     *         appended.  If <tt>csq</tt> is <tt>null</tt>, then characters
     *         will be appended as if <tt>csq</tt> contained the four
     *         characters <tt>"null"</tt>.
     *
     * @param  start
     *         The index of the first character in the subsequence
     *
     * @param  end
     *         The index of the character following the last character in the
     *         subsequence
     *
     * @return  This writer
     *
     * @throws  IndexOutOfBoundsException
     *          If <tt>start</tt> or <tt>end</tt> are negative, <tt>start</tt>
     *          is greater than <tt>end</tt>, or <tt>end</tt> is greater than
     *          <tt>csq.length()</tt>
     *
     * @throws  IOException
     *          If an I/O error occurs
     *
     * @since  1.5
     */

    public Writer append(CharSequence csq, int start, int end) throws IOException {
        CharSequence cs = (csq == null ? "null" : csq);
        write(cs.subSequence(start, end).toString());
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Appends the specified character to this writer.
     *
     * <p> An invocation of this method of the form <tt>out.append(c)</tt>
     * behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation
     *
     * <pre>
     *     out.write(c) </pre>
     *
     * @param  c
     *         The 16-bit character to append
     *
     * @return  This writer
     *
     * @throws  IOException
     *          If an I/O error occurs
     *
     * @since 1.5
     */
    public Writer append(char c) throws IOException {
        write(c);
        return this;
    }

    /**
     * Flushes the stream.  If the stream has saved any characters from the
     * various write() methods in a buffer, write them immediately to their
     * intended destination.  Then, if that destination is another character or
     * byte stream, flush it.  Thus one flush() invocation will flush all the
     * buffers in a chain of Writers and OutputStreams.
     *
     * <p> If the intended destination of this stream is an abstraction provided
     * by the underlying operating system, for example a file, then flushing the
     * stream guarantees only that bytes previously written to the stream are
     * passed to the operating system for writing; it does not guarantee that
     * they are actually written to a physical device such as a disk drive.
     *
     * @throws  IOException
     *          If an I/O error occurs
     */
    abstract public void flush() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Closes the stream, flushing it first. Once the stream has been closed,
     * further write() or flush() invocations will cause an IOException to be
     * thrown. Closing a previously closed stream has no effect.
     *
     * @throws  IOException
     *          If an I/O error occurs
     */
    abstract public void close() throws IOException;

}