Class FileAccess

code/src/java/pcgen/io/FileAccess.java:36–157

FileAccess.

 *
 */
public final class FileAccess
{
	private static OutputFilter outputFilter = null;
	private static int maxLength = -1;

	private FileAccess()
	{
	}

	/**
	 * Filter the supplied string according to the current output filter. This
	 * can do things such as escaping HTML entities.
	 *
	 * @param aString The string to be filtered
	 * @return The filtered string.
	 */
	public static String filterString(String aString)
	{
		String outputString = aString;
		if (outputFilter != null)
		{
			outputString = outputFilter.filterString(aString);
		}
		return outputString;
	}

	/**
	 * Set the current output filter. The current output filter will be 
	 * chosen based on the extension of the passed in template file name. 
	 * 
	 * @param templateFilename (used to create instance of CharacterFilter)
	 */
	public static void setCurrentOutputFilter(String templateFilename)
	{
		try
		{
			outputFilter = new PatternFilter(templateFilename);
		}
		catch (IOException e)
		{
			outputFilter = new CharacterFilter(templateFilename);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Set the current output filter
	 * @param filter
	 */
	public static void setCurrentOutputFilter(OutputFilter filter)
	{
		outputFilter = filter;
	}

	/**
	 * Write, but with encoding
	 * @param output
	 * @param aString
	 */