file writing problems

[momotaro]

I create file then I test and write to it first time everything is good but when I rerun the program it find the file so it should flush its content then do what ever I told it to do but there I get my problem can't erease and can't write:

public FileWriter createFile(String name)
	{	
		if(!FileOrDirectoryExists(name))
		{
			//erase the content of the file
			try{
				fstream = new FileWriter(name);
			}
			catch (Exception e) {
				System.err.println("Error: can't create");
			}
		}
		//erase the content of the file
		else
		{
			try{
				this.fstream.flush();
				this.fstream.close();
			}
			catch (Exception e) {
				System.err.println("Error: can't erease");
			}
		}
		return fstream;
	}
	
	/**
	 * This file writes the text into the file.
	 * 
	 * @param text
	 */
	public void write(String text)
	{
		try{
			BufferedWriter file = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
			 file.write(text);
			 file.close();
		}
		catch (Exception e) {
			System.err.println("Error: can't write");
		}
		
	}

The calling :

FileDirectoryFactory file = new FileDirectoryFactory();
		file.createFile("orm.xml");
		file.write("hello world");

[Rabbit]

You close your fstream. Then you return a closed fstream which you don't assign to a variable in your code. Your write function attempts to open an fstream which you don't pass into your code.

[momotaro]

here is the solution if you think there is any improvement to make tell me

	public FileWriter createFile(String name)
	{	
		this.file = new File(name);
		if(!FileOrDirectoryExists(name))
		{
			try{
				file.createNewFile();
				fstream = new FileWriter(file);
			}
			catch (Exception e) {
				System.err.println("Error: can't create\n");
			}
		}
		//erase the content of the file
		else
		{
			try{
				this.file.delete();
				this.file.createNewFile();
			}
			catch (Exception e) {
				System.err.println("Error: can't erease\n");
			}
		}
		return fstream;
	}
	
	/**
	 * This file writes the text into the file.
	 * 
	 * @param text
	 */
	public void write(String text)
	{
		
		try{
			fstream = new FileWriter(file);
			BufferedWriter file = new BufferedWriter(fstream);
			file.write(text);
			file.close();
		}
		catch (Exception e) {
			System.err.println("Error: can't write");
		}
	}

[momotaro]

FileWriter issues

I have a class that contains a method "createFile " that returns a FileWriter object then I use that to write into the created file but have a custom message error saying can't write to file, here is the code :

FileWriter classFile = fdf.createFile(dirPath + "\\" 
+ entity.getClassName() + ".java");
			try {
				classFile.write(entity.toString());
				classFile.close();
			} catch (Exception e) {
				System.err.println("can't write class [INDENT][INDENT][INDENT][INDENT]to file");[/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT][/INDENT]
			}

[momotaro]

My bad I wasn't using my method :) thx anyway