InputStream and Reader

Question

For the program that I'm writing, I'm redirecting the default streams, so I made extended InputStream, overrode ALL the functions, and used System.setIn.
However, a common class that I use for IO in my previous console programs use Readers. I figured out that I needed to return a
(char) -1
after my buffer has ended as the end-of-stream.
However, if I only return it for a set number of times, like 1 or 50000 times, the Reader won't accept that end-of-stream, and keeps reading! If I don't stop returning the end-of-stream, the stream can't be read for a second time (the Reader keeps returning end-of-streams)! How should I solve this?

Answer 1

You guys aren't understanding the purpose of the
class. I want to redirect System.in.to a applet or a
swing app. So, I want the Reader to accept the
input, but not close the stream permenently. I hope
that clear things up for a bit.Well, I had the same problem with my application, it would write the data fine, but not close the FileOutputStream, which caused my application to crash (because I put in safeguards) What I did was create variables for each thing being written, wrote a class, like:
public void Create() //coded 4/12/2006
          create = new FileDialog(dialog,"New Game v1.0", FileDialog.SAVE);
          create.show();
          file_name = create.getFile();
          f = new File(file_name);
          if (file_name != null)
          { try
                    FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(file_name);
                    DataOutputStream dos = new DataOutputStream(fos);
                    level = "1";
                    cur_HP = "10";
                    max_HP = "10";
                    atk_str = "10";
                    def_str = "10";
                    cur_exp = "0";
                    exp_ned = "100";
                    loc_x = "0";
                    loc_y = "0";
                    dos.writeUTF(level);
                    dos.writeUTF(cur_HP);
                    dos.writeUTF(max_HP);
                    dos.writeUTF(atk_str);
                    dos.writeUTF(def_str);
                    dos.writeUTF(cur_exp);
                    dos.writeUTF(exp_ned);
                    dos.writeUTF(loc_x);
                    dos.writeUTF(loc_y);
                    System.out.println("File Created Sucessfully: " + file_name);
                    fos.close();
               catch (IOException e)
                    System.out.println("There was an Error Creating the File: " + file_name);
                    System.out.println(e);
     }which opened the FileOutputStream and DataOutputStream, wrote the variables to the file (which were ints converted to a String), and closed the file. What I would try to do is to write your variables to the file, then put a end variable (like an int set to the value of 1728274672 or some other number of your choice), and when your reading your file, have an if/else statement like:
if(temp_process[i] != 1728274672)
process[i] = temp_process;
i = i + 1;
else
bufferedvariable.close();
i hope this makes sense
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g@m3r