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package java.io;

/* Written using "Java Class Libraries", 2nd edition, ISBN 0-201-31002-3
 * "The Java Language Specification", ISBN 0-201-63451-1
 * Status:  Complete to version 1.1.
 */

/**
  * This class is the common superclass of output stream classes that 
  * filter the output they write.  These classes typically transform the
  * data in some way prior to writing it out to another underlying
  * <code>OutputStream</code>.  This class simply overrides all the 
  * methods in <code>OutputStream</code> to redirect them to the
  * underlying stream.  Subclasses provide actual filtering.
  *
  * @author Aaron M. Renn (arenn@urbanophile.com)
  * @author Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
  */
public class FilterOutputStream extends OutputStream
{
  /**
    * This is the subordinate <code>OutputStream</code> that this class
    * redirects its method calls to.
    */
  protected OutputStream out;

  /**
    * This method initializes an instance of <code>FilterOutputStream</code>
    * to write to the specified subordinate <code>OutputStream</code>.
    *
    * @param out The <code>OutputStream</code> to write to
    */
  public FilterOutputStream(OutputStream out)
  {
    this.out = out;
  }

  /**
    * This method closes the underlying <code>OutputStream</code>.  Any
    * further attempts to write to this stream may throw an exception.
    *
    * @exception IOException If an error occurs
    */
  public void close() throws IOException
  {
    flush();
    out.close();
  }

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

  /**
    * This method writes a single byte of output to the underlying
    * <code>OutputStream</code>.
    *
    * @param b The byte to write, passed as an int.
    *
    * @exception IOException If an error occurs
    */
  public void write(int b) throws IOException
  {
    out.write(b);
  }

  /**
    * This method writes all the bytes in the specified array to the underlying
    * <code>OutputStream</code>.  It does this by calling the three parameter
    * version of this method - <code>write(byte[], int, int)</code> in this
    * class instead of writing to the underlying <code>OutputStream</code>
    * directly.  This allows most subclasses to avoid overriding this method.
    *
    * @param buf The byte array to write bytes from
    *
    * @exception IOException If an error occurs
    */
  public void write(byte[] buf) throws IOException
  {
    // Don't do checking here, per Java Lang Spec.
    write(buf, 0, buf.length);
  }

  /**
    * This method calls the <code>write(int)</code> method <code>len</code>
    * times for all bytes from the array <code>buf</code> starting at index
    * <code>offset</code>. Subclasses should overwrite this method to get a
    * more efficient implementation.
    *
    * @param buf The byte array to write bytes from
    * @param offset The index into the array to start writing bytes from
    * @param len The number of bytes to write
    *
    * @exception IOException If an error occurs
    */
  public void write(byte[] buf, int offset, int len) throws IOException
  {
    // Don't do checking here, per Java Lang Spec.
    for (int i=0; i < len; i++) 
      write(buf[offset + i]);

  }

} // class FilterOutputStream