ResponseWriter

java.lang.Object
- java.io.Writer
- - javax.faces.context.ResponseWriter

All Implemented Interfaces:

java.io.Closeable, java.io.Flushable, java.lang.Appendable, java.lang.AutoCloseable

Direct Known Subclasses:

ResponseWriterWrapper
```
public abstract class ResponseWriter
extends java.io.Writer
```
ResponseWriter is an abstract class describing an adapter to an underlying output mechanism for character-based output. In addition to the low-level write() methods inherited from java.io.Writer, this class provides utility methods that are useful in producing elements and attributes for markup languages like HTML and XML.

Field Summary
- Fields inherited from class java.io.Writer
  lock

Constructor Summary

Constructors
Constructor and Description

ResponseWriter()

Constructors
Constructor and Description
`ResponseWriter()`

Method Summary

All Methods Instance Methods Abstract Methods Concrete Methods
Modifier and Type	Method and Description
`abstract ResponseWriter`	`cloneWithWriter(java.io.Writer writer)` Create and return a new instance of this `ResponseWriter`, using the specified `Writer` as the output destination.
`void`	`endCDATA()` Close an XML `CDATA` block.
`abstract void`	`endDocument()` Write whatever text should end a response.
`abstract void`	`endElement(java.lang.String name)` Write the end of an element, after closing any open element created by a call to `startElement()`.
`abstract void`	`flush()` Flush any ouput buffered by the output method to the underlying Writer or OutputStream.
`abstract java.lang.String`	`getCharacterEncoding()` Return the character encoding (such as "ISO-8859-1") for this `ResponseWriter`.
`abstract java.lang.String`	`getContentType()` Return the content type (such as "text/html") for this `ResponseWriter`.
`void`	`startCDATA()` Open an XML `CDATA` block.
`abstract void`	`startDocument()` Write whatever text should begin a response.
`abstract void`	`startElement(java.lang.String name, UIComponent component)` Write the start of an element, up to and including the element name.
`abstract void`	`writeAttribute(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Object value, java.lang.String property)` Write an attribute name and corresponding value, after converting that text to a String (if necessary), and after performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered.
`abstract void`	`writeComment(java.lang.Object comment)` Write a comment containing the specified text, after converting that text to a String (if necessary), and after performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered.
`void`	`writeDoctype(java.lang.String doctype)` Write a string containing the markup specific doctype.
`void`	`writePreamble(java.lang.String preamble)` Write a string containing the markup specific preamble.
`abstract void`	`writeText(char[] text, int off, int len)` Write text from a character array, after any performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered.
`abstract void`	`writeText(java.lang.Object text, java.lang.String property)` Write an object, after converting it to a String (if necessary), and after performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered.
`void`	`writeText(java.lang.Object text, UIComponent component, java.lang.String property)` Write an object, after converting it to a String (if necessary), and after performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered.
`abstract void`	`writeURIAttribute(java.lang.String name, java.lang.Object value, java.lang.String property)` Write a URI attribute name and corresponding value, after converting that text to a String (if necessary), and after performing any encoding or escaping appropriate to the markup language being rendered.

Methods inherited from class java.io.Writer
append, append, append, close, write, write, write, write, write

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object
clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

- Constructor Detail
  - ResponseWriter
```
public ResponseWriter()
```
- Method Detail
  - getContentType
```
public abstract java.lang.String getContentType()
```
    Return the content type (such as "text/html") for this ResponseWriter. Note: this must not include the "charset=" suffix.
    
    Returns:
    
    the content type
  - getCharacterEncoding
```
public abstract java.lang.String getCharacterEncoding()
```
    Return the character encoding (such as "ISO-8859-1") for this ResponseWriter. Please see the IANA for a list of character encodings.
    
    Returns:
    
    the character encoding
  - flush
```
public abstract void flush()
                    throws java.io.IOException
```
    Flush any ouput buffered by the output method to the underlying Writer or OutputStream. This method will not flush the underlying Writer or OutputStream; it simply clears any values buffered by this ResponseWriter.
    
    Specified by:
    
    flush in interface java.io.Flushable
    
    Specified by:
    
    flush in class java.io.Writer
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException
  - startDocument
```
public abstract void startDocument()
                            throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write whatever text should begin a response.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
  - endDocument
```
public abstract void endDocument()
                          throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write whatever text should end a response. If there is an open element that has been created by a call to startElement(), that element will be closed first.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
  - startElement
```
public abstract void startElement(java.lang.String name,
                                  UIComponent component)
                           throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write the start of an element, up to and including the element name. Once this method has been called, clients can call the writeAttribute() or writeURIAttribute() methods to add attributes and corresponding values. The starting element will be closed (that is, the trailing '>' character added) on any subsequent call to startElement(), writeComment(), writeText(), endElement(), endDocument(), close(), flush(), or write().
    
    If the argument component's pass through attributes includes an attribute of the name given by the value of the symbolic constant Renderer.PASSTHROUGH_RENDERER_LOCALNAME_KEY, use that as the element name, instead of the value passed as the first parameter to this method. Care must be taken so that this value is not also rendered when any other pass through attributes on this component are rendered.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - Name of the element to be started
    
    component - The UIComponent (if any) to which this element corresponds. This component is inspected for its pass through attributes as described in the standard HTML_BASIC RenderKit specification.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if name is null
  - endElement
```
public abstract void endElement(java.lang.String name)
                         throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write the end of an element, after closing any open element created by a call to startElement(). Elements must be closed in the inverse order from which they were opened; it is an error to do otherwise.
    
    If the argument component's pass through attributes includes an attribute of the name given by the value of the symbolic constant Renderer.PASSTHROUGH_RENDERER_LOCALNAME_KEY, use that as the element name, instead of the value passed as the first parameter to this method.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - Name of the element to be ended
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if name is null
  - writeAttribute
```
public abstract void writeAttribute(java.lang.String name,
                                    java.lang.Object value,
                                    java.lang.String property)
                             throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write an attribute name and corresponding value, after converting that text to a String (if necessary), and after performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered. This method may only be called after a call to startElement(), and before the opened element has been closed.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - Attribute name to be added
    
    value - Attribute value to be added
    
    property - Name of the property or attribute (if any) of the UIComponent associated with the containing element, to which this generated attribute corresponds
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called when there is no currently open element
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if name is null
  - writeURIAttribute
```
public abstract void writeURIAttribute(java.lang.String name,
                                       java.lang.Object value,
                                       java.lang.String property)
                                throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write a URI attribute name and corresponding value, after converting that text to a String (if necessary), and after performing any encoding or escaping appropriate to the markup language being rendered. When rendering in a WWW environment, the escaping conventions established in the W3C URI spec document <http://www.w3.org/Addressing/URL/uri-spec.html> must be followed. In particular, spaces ' ' must be encoded as %20 and not the plus character '+'. This method may only be called after a call to startElement(), and before the opened element has been closed.
    
    Parameters:
    
    name - Attribute name to be added
    
    value - Attribute value to be added
    
    property - Name of the property or attribute (if any) of the UIComponent associated with the containing element, to which this generated attribute corresponds
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.IllegalStateException - if this method is called when there is no currently open element
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if name is null
  - startCDATA
```
public void startCDATA()
                throws java.io.IOException
```
    Open an XML CDATA block. Note that XML does not allow nested CDATA blocks, though this method does not enforce that constraint. The default implementation of this method takes no action when invoked.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if input/output error occures
  - endCDATA
```
public void endCDATA()
              throws java.io.IOException
```
    Close an XML CDATA block. The default implementation of this method takes no action when invoked.
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if input/output error occures
  - writeComment
```
public abstract void writeComment(java.lang.Object comment)
                           throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write a comment containing the specified text, after converting that text to a String (if necessary), and after performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered. If there is an open element that has been created by a call to startElement(), that element will be closed first.
    
    Parameters:
    
    comment - Text content of the comment
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if comment is null
  - writePreamble
```
public void writePreamble(java.lang.String preamble)
                   throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write a string containing the markup specific preamble. No escaping is performed. The default implementation simply calls through to Writer.write(java.lang.String) .
    
    The implementation makes no checks if this is the correct place in the response to have a preamble, nor does it prevent the preamble from being written more than once.
    
    Parameters:
    
    preamble - Text content of the preamble
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    Since:
    
    2.2
  - writeDoctype
```
public void writeDoctype(java.lang.String doctype)
                  throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write a string containing the markup specific doctype. No escaping is performed. The default implementation simply calls through to Writer.write(java.lang.String) .
    
    The implementation makes no checks if this is the correct place in the response to have a doctype, nor does it prevent the doctype from being written more than once.
    
    Parameters:
    
    doctype - Text content of the doctype
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    Since:
    
    2.2
  - writeText
```
public abstract void writeText(java.lang.Object text,
                               java.lang.String property)
                        throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write an object, after converting it to a String (if necessary), and after performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered. If there is an open element that has been created by a call to startElement(), that element will be closed first.
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - Text to be written
    
    property - Name of the property or attribute (if any) of the UIComponent associated with the containing element, to which this generated text corresponds
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if text is null
  - writeText
```
public void writeText(java.lang.Object text,
                      UIComponent component,
                      java.lang.String property)
               throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write an object, after converting it to a String (if necessary), and after performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered. This method is equivalent to writeText(java.lang.Object,java.lang.String) but adds a component property to allow custom ResponseWriter implementations to associate a component with an arbitrary portion of text.
    
    The default implementation simply ignores the component argument and calls through to writeText(java.lang.Object,java.lang.String)
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - Text to be written
    
    component - The UIComponent (if any) to which this element corresponds
    
    property - Name of the property or attribute (if any) of the UIComponent associated with the containing element, to which this generated text corresponds
    
    Throws:
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if text is null
    
    Since:
    
    1.2
  - writeText
```
public abstract void writeText(char[] text,
                               int off,
                               int len)
                        throws java.io.IOException
```
    Write text from a character array, after any performing any escaping appropriate for the markup language being rendered. If there is an open element that has been created by a call to startElement(), that element will be closed first.
    
    Parameters:
    
    text - Text to be written
    
    off - Starting offset (zero-relative)
    
    len - Number of characters to be written
    
    Throws:
    
    java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException - if the calculated starting or ending position is outside the bounds of the character array
    
    java.io.IOException - if an input/output error occurs
    
    java.lang.NullPointerException - if text is null
  - cloneWithWriter
```
public abstract ResponseWriter cloneWithWriter(java.io.Writer writer)
```
    Create and return a new instance of this ResponseWriter, using the specified Writer as the output destination.
    
    Parameters:
    
    writer - The Writer that is the output destination
    
    Returns:
    
    the new ResponseWriter

Class ResponseWriter

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class java.io.Writer

Constructor Summary

Method Summary

Methods inherited from class java.io.Writer

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

Constructor Detail

ResponseWriter

Method Detail

getContentType

getCharacterEncoding

flush

startDocument

endDocument

startElement

endElement

writeAttribute

writeURIAttribute

startCDATA

endCDATA

writeComment

writePreamble

writeDoctype

writeText

writeText

writeText

cloneWithWriter