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Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console?

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On 1/30/2012 7:33 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/30/2012 3:03 PM, frame wrote:
>> We have an existing Java program, which prints out a lot of message
>> using System.out.println() method to the console. There are about 500
>> those calls in the code. We hope to add one more feature: besides
>> print out to the console as it is doing now, we also want to store
>> those messages in a text file. So the message will be in two places:
>> one place -- the console -- is shown the message progressively as the
>> program is running; another place -- a text file -- is created at the
>> end of the program.
>>
>> Since there are about 500 calls in the code, we don't want to add a
>> duplicated printing method at every printing place. I am thinking to
>> let the program run as usal, printing out all the messages to the
>> console, then before the program ends, having a method reading in
>> every line on the console, which was printed out previously. I just
>> don't know how to achieve that.
>
> If you can live with the file being written while the
> program runs then something like:
>
> import java.io.IOException;
> import java.io.OutputStream;
> import java.io.PrintStream;
>
> public class TeeOutputStream extends OutputStream {
> private OutputStream os1;
> private OutputStream os2;
> public TeeOutputStream(OutputStream os1, OutputStream os2) {
> this.os1 = os1;
> this.os2 = os2;
> }
> public void write(byte[] b) throws IOException {
> os1.write(b);
> os2.write(b);
> }
> public void write(byte[] b, int off, int len) throws IOException {
> os1.write(b, off, len);
> os2.write(b, off, len);
> }
> public void write(int b) throws IOException {
> os1.write(b);
> os2.write(b);
> }
> public void flush() throws IOException {
> os1.flush();
> os2.flush();
> }
> public void close() throws IOException {
> os1.close();
> os2.close();
> }
> public static void test2() {
> System.out.println("This is test2");
> }
> public static void test1() {
> System.out.println("This is test1");
> }
> public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
> System.out.println("normal");
> PrintStream sav = System.out;
> System.setOut(new PrintStream(new TeeOutputStream(System.out, new
> PrintStream("C:\\work\\tst.out"))));
> test1();
> test2();
> System.setOut(sav);
> System.out.println("normal");
> }
> }

If you don't like that approach, then maybe look at some
AspectJ magic.

Arne

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how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-30 12:03 -0800
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-01-30 20:18 +0000
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-30 20:42 -0800
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-01-30 14:18 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:34 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 14:37 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 20:08 -0500
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 17:18 -0800
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 21:00 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:33 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 19:35 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-31 10:09 -0800
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:11 -0800
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-31 20:39 -0500
        Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-01 06:01 -0800
          Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Ian Shef <invalid@avoiding.spam> - 2012-02-01 19:15 +0000
            Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-02-01 12:59 -0800
              Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-02-01 14:00 -0800
          Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-02-01 19:27 -0500
  Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? frame <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-30 18:49 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-30 21:56 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Patricia Shanahan <pats@acm.org> - 2012-01-30 19:06 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-01-30 20:46 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-30 21:18 -0800
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-01-31 20:36 -0500
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Jukka Lahtinen <jtfjdehf@hotmail.com.invalid> - 2012-01-31 10:18 +0200
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:15 -0800
    Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? bugbear <bugbear@trim_papermule.co.uk_trim> - 2012-01-31 09:50 +0000
      Re: how to read back the lines printed out to the console? Lew <noone@lewscanon.com> - 2012-01-31 11:17 -0800

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