Author: scolebourne
Date: Sat Mar  4 15:19:02 2006
New Revision: 383221

URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs?rev=383221&view=rev
Log:
Improve javadoc

Modified:
    
jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java
    jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.java

Modified: 
jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java?rev=383221&r1=383220&r2=383221&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- 
jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java 
(original)
+++ 
jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/FileUtils.java 
Sat Mar  4 15:19:02 2006
@@ -594,6 +594,7 @@
      * @throws NullPointerException if source or destination is null
      * @throws IOException if source or destination is invalid
      * @throws IOException if an IO error occurs during copying
+     * @since Commons IO 1.2
      */
     public static void copyDirectoryToDirectory(File srcDir, File destDir) 
throws IOException {
         if (srcDir == null) {
@@ -856,8 +857,8 @@
      * The file is always closed.
      * <p>
      * There is no readFileToString method without encoding parameter because
-     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and therefore results
-     * in inconsistent results.
+     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and will have
+     * inconsistent results.
      *
      * @param file  the file to read
      * @param encoding  the encoding to use, null means platform default
@@ -900,8 +901,8 @@
      * The file is always closed.
      * <p>
      * There is no readLines method without encoding parameter because
-     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and therefore results
-     * in inconsistent results.
+     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and will have
+     * inconsistent results.
      *
      * @param file  the file to read
      * @param encoding  the encoding to use, null means platform default
@@ -924,11 +925,24 @@
      * Return an Iterator for the lines in a <code>File</code>.
      * Please read the javadoc of [EMAIL PROTECTED] LineIterator} to understand
      * whether you should close the iterator.
-     * The file is closed if an exception is thrown.
+     * The file is closed if an exception is thrown during this method.
      * <p>
-     * There is no readLines method without encoding parameter because
-     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and therefore results
-     * in inconsistent results.
+     * The recommended usage patterm is:
+     * <pre>
+     * LineIterator it = FileUtils.lineIterator(file, "UTF-8");
+     * try {
+     *   while (it.hasNext()) {
+     *     String line = it.nextLine();
+     *     /// do something with line
+     *   }
+     * } finally {
+     *   LineIterator.closeQuietly(iterator);
+     * }
+     * </pre>
+     * <p>
+     * There is no lineIterator method without encoding parameter because
+     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and will have
+     * inconsistent results.
      *
      * @param file  the file to read
      * @param encoding  the encoding to use, null means platform default
@@ -955,8 +969,8 @@
      * Writes a String to a file creating the file if it does not exist.
      * <p>
      * There is no writeStringToFile method without encoding parameter because
-     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and therefore results
-     * in inconsistent results.
+     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and will have
+     * inconsistent results.
      *
      * @param file  the file to write
      * @param data  the content to write to the file
@@ -998,8 +1012,8 @@
      * The specified character encoding and the default line ending will be 
used.
      * <p>
      * There is no writeLines method without encoding parameter because
-     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and therefore results
-     * in inconsistent results.
+     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and will have
+     * inconsistent results.
      *
      * @param file  the file to write to
      * @param encoding  the encoding to use, null means platform default
@@ -1018,8 +1032,8 @@
      * The specified character encoding and the line ending will be used.
      * <p>
      * There is no writeLines method without encoding parameter because
-     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and therefore results
-     * in inconsistent results.
+     * the default encoding can differ between platforms and will have
+     * inconsistent results.
      *
      * @param file  the file to write to
      * @param encoding  the encoding to use, null means platform default

Modified: 
jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.java
URL: 
http://svn.apache.org/viewcvs/jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.java?rev=383221&r1=383220&r2=383221&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.java 
(original)
+++ jakarta/commons/proper/io/trunk/src/java/org/apache/commons/io/IOUtils.java 
Sat Mar  4 15:19:02 2006
@@ -511,7 +511,19 @@
      * Return an Iterator for the lines in a <code>Reader</code>.
      * Please read the javadoc of [EMAIL PROTECTED] LineIterator} to understand
      * whether you should close the iterator.
-     * The file is closed if an exception is thrown.
+     * <p>
+     * The recommended usage pattern is:
+     * <pre>
+     * LineIterator it = IOUtils.lineIterator(reader);
+     * try {
+     *   while (it.hasNext()) {
+     *     String line = it.nextLine();
+     *     /// do something with line
+     *   }
+     * } finally {
+     *   LineIterator.closeQuietly(iterator);
+     * }
+     * </pre>
      *
      * @param reader  the <code>Reader</code> to read from, not null
      * @return an Iterator of the lines in the reader, never null
@@ -527,7 +539,19 @@
      * the character encoding specified (or default encoding if null).
      * Please read the javadoc of [EMAIL PROTECTED] LineIterator} to understand
      * whether you should close the iterator.
-     * The file is closed if an exception is thrown.
+     * <p>
+     * The recommended usage pattern is:
+     * <pre>
+     * LineIterator it = IOUtils.lineIterator(stream, "UTF-8");
+     * try {
+     *   while (it.hasNext()) {
+     *     String line = it.nextLine();
+     *     /// do something with line
+     *   }
+     * } finally {
+     *   LineIterator.closeQuietly(iterator);
+     * }
+     * </pre>
      *
      * @param input  the <code>InputStream</code> to read from, not null
      * @param encoding  the encoding to use, null means platform default



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