Java – how do I implement an OutputStream that I can play back?

After writing some processed content to the output stream, I need to revisit the beginning of the stream and write some content metadata The data I write is very large, up to 4GB, and can be directly written to files or memory buffers, depending on various environmental factors

How to implement an OutputStream that allows me to write out the title after writing the content?

Solution

This is a random access file output stream

Note that if you use it for a large number of stream outputs, you can temporarily wrap it in bufferedoutputstream to avoid a large number of lowercase (just make sure to refresh it before discarding the wrapper or directly using the underlying stream)

import java.io.*;

/**
 * A positionable file output stream.
 * <p>
 * Threading Design : [x] Single Threaded  [ ] Threadsafe  [ ] Immutable  [ ] Isolated
 */

public class RandomFileOutputStream
extends OutputStream
{

// *****************************************************************************
// INSTANCE PROPERTIES
// *****************************************************************************

protected RandomAccessFile              randomFile;                             // the random file to write to
protected boolean                       sync;                                   // whether to synchronize every write

// *****************************************************************************
// INSTANCE CONSTRUCTION/INITIALIZATON/FINALIZATION,OPEN/CLOSE
// *****************************************************************************

public RandomFileOutputStream(String fnm) throws IOException {
    this(fnm,false);
    }

public RandomFileOutputStream(String fnm,boolean syn) throws IOException {
    this(new File(fnm),syn);
    }

public RandomFileOutputStream(File fil) throws IOException {
    this(fil,false);
    }

public RandomFileOutputStream(File fil,boolean syn) throws IOException {
    super();

    File                                par;                                    // parent file

    fil=fil.getAbsoluteFile();
    if((par=fil.getParentFile())!=null) { IoUtil.createDir(par); }
    randomFile=new RandomAccessFile(fil,"rw");
    sync=syn;
    }

// *****************************************************************************
// INSTANCE METHODS - OUTPUT STREAM IMPLEMENTATION
// *****************************************************************************

public void write(int val) throws IOException {
    randomFile.write(val);
    if(sync) { randomFile.getFD().sync(); }
    }

public void write(byte[] val) throws IOException {
    randomFile.write(val);
    if(sync) { randomFile.getFD().sync(); }
    }

public void write(byte[] val,int off,int len) throws IOException {
    randomFile.write(val,off,len);
    if(sync) { randomFile.getFD().sync(); }
    }

public void flush() throws IOException {
    if(sync) { randomFile.getFD().sync(); }
    }

public void close() throws IOException {
    randomFile.close();
    }

// *****************************************************************************
// INSTANCE METHODS - RANDOM ACCESS EXTENSIONS
// *****************************************************************************

public long getFilePointer() throws IOException {
    return randomFile.getFilePointer();
    }

public void setFilePointer(long pos) throws IOException {
    randomFile.seek(pos);
    }

public long getFileSize() throws IOException {
    return randomFile.length();
    }

public void setFileSize(long len) throws IOException {
    randomFile.setLength(len);
    }

public FileDescriptor getFD() throws IOException {
    return randomFile.getFD();
    }

} // END PUBLIC CLASS