Java File Operations

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import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.FileReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;

/**
 * This class contains method to perform simple file operations like file reading and writing.
 */

public class FileOperations
{

        public FileOperations()
        {
        }

        /**
         * Starting point of the class where execution begins
         *
         * @param args
         *            Command Line arguments
         * @throws Exception
         */

        public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception
        {
                FileOperations fileOperations = new FileOperations();
                String content = "Welcome to TechDive.in!";
                String path = "D:\\techdive.txt";
                System.out.println("Write the conent ->'" + content + "' to the file -> " + path);
                fileOperations.writeToFile(content, path);

                System.out.println("Read the file as String From -> " + path);
                System.out.println(fileOperations.getFileContentAsString(path));

                System.out.println("Read the file as Byte Array From -> " + path);
                byte[] byteArray = fileOperations.getFileContentAsBytes(path);

                for (int i = 0; i < byteArray.length; i++)
                {
                        System.out.println("b[" + i + "] = " + ((int) byteArray[i] < 11 ? "  " : "") + byteArray[i] + " , "
                        + " character=(" + (char) byteArray[i] + ")");
                }
        }

        /**
         * This method returns a String by reading it from a BufferedReader
         *
         * @param bufferedReader
         *            BufferedReader
         * @return Content as String
         * @throws Exception
         */

        public String getFileContentAsString(BufferedReader bufferedReader) throws Exception
        {
                BufferedReader buf = new BufferedReader(bufferedReader);

                StringBuffer sBuf = new StringBuffer();
                String s = null;

                while ((s = buf.readLine()) != null)
                {
                        sBuf.append(s);
                }
                return sBuf.toString();
        }

        /**
         * This method reads from the given file and returns the file content as String
         *
         * @param File
         * @return Content as String
         * @throws Exception
         */

        public String getFileContentAsString(File file) throws Exception
        {
                if (!file.exists())
                {
                        throw new FileNotFoundException();
                }
                FileReader fileReader = new FileReader(file);
                return getFileContentAsString(new BufferedReader(fileReader));
        }

        /**
         * This method reads from the file in the given path and returns the file content as String
         *
         * @param path
         * @return Content as String
         * @throws Exception
         */

        public String getFileContentAsString(String path) throws Exception
        {
                File file = new File(path);
                return getFileContentAsString(file);
        }

        /**
         * This method reads from the given Input Stream and returns the content as String
         *
         * @param Input
         *            Stream
         * @return Content as String
         * @throws Exception
         */

        public String getInputStreamAsString(InputStream inputStream) throws Exception
        {
                return getFileContentAsString(new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream)));
        }

        /**
         * This method writes the given String content in a file in the given path.
         *
         * @param textContent
         * @param filePath
         * @throws IOException
         */

        public void writeToFile(String textContent, String filePath) throws IOException
        {
                writeToFile(textContent, new File(filePath));
        }

        /**
         * This method writes the given String content in the given file.
         *
         * @param textContent
         *            Text Content
         * @param file
         *            File
         * @throws IOException
         */

        public void writeToFile(String textContent, File file) throws IOException
        {
                FileOutputStream fO = new FileOutputStream(file);
                fO.write(textContent.getBytes());
        }

        /**
         * This method reads from a file in the given path and returns the file content as byte array.
         *
         * @param path
         *            File Path
         * @return Context Byte Array
         * @throws Exception
         */

        public byte[] getFileContentAsBytes(String path) throws Exception
        {
                return getFileContentAsBytes(new File(path));
        }

        /**
         * This method reads from the given file and returns the file content as byte array.
         *
         * @param file
         *            File
         * @return Content Byte Array
         * @throws Exception
         */

        public byte[] getFileContentAsBytes(File file) throws Exception
        {
                FileInputStream fileInputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
                byte[] byteArray = new byte[1024];
                byte[] result = new byte[0];
                int start = 0;
                int end = byteArray.length;
                int count = 0;
                while ((count = fileInputStream.read(byteArray, start, end - 1)) != -1)
                {
                        byte[] temp = new byte[result.length + count];
                        System.arraycopy(byteArray, 0, temp, result.length, count);
                        result = temp;
                }
                return result;
        }
}

Output :

Write the conent ->'Welcome to TechDive.in!' to the file -> D:\techdive.txt
Read the file as String From -> D:\techdive.txt
Welcome to TechDive.in!
Read the file as Byte Array From -> D:\techdive.txt
b[0] = 87 ,  character=(W)
b[1] = 101 ,  character=(e)
b[2] = 108 ,  character=(l)
b[3] = 99 ,  character=(c)
b[4] = 111 ,  character=(o)
b[5] = 109 ,  character=(m)
b[6] = 101 ,  character=(e)
b[7] = 32 ,  character=( )
b[8] = 116 ,  character=(t)
b[9] = 111 ,  character=(o)
b[10] = 32 ,  character=( )
b[11] = 84 ,  character=(T)
b[12] = 101 ,  character=(e)
b[13] = 99 ,  character=(c)
b[14] = 104 ,  character=(h)
b[15] = 68 ,  character=(D)
b[16] = 105 ,  character=(i)
b[17] = 118 ,  character=(v)
b[18] = 101 ,  character=(e)
b[19] = 46 ,  character=(.)
b[20] = 105 ,  character=(i)
b[21] = 110 ,  character=(n)
b[22] = 33 ,  character=(!)
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