Appendable

public interface Appendable

java.lang.Appendable

Known indirect subclasses

BufferedWriter, CharArrayWriter, CharBuffer, Editable, FileWriter, FilterWriter, OutputStreamWriter, PipedWriter, PrintStream, PrintWriter, SpannableStringBuilder, StringBuffer, StringBuilder, StringWriter, Writer

BufferedWriter	Writes text to a character-output stream, buffering characters so as to provide for the efficient writing of single characters, arrays, and strings.
CharArrayWriter	This class implements a character buffer that can be used as an Writer.
CharBuffer	A char buffer.
Editable	This is the interface for text whose content and markup can be changed (as opposed to immutable text like Strings).
FileWriter	Writes text to character files using a default buffer size.
FilterWriter	Abstract class for writing filtered character streams.
OutputStreamWriter	An OutputStreamWriter is a bridge from character streams to byte streams: Characters written to it are encoded into bytes using a specified `charset`.
PipedWriter	Piped character-output streams.
PrintStream	A `PrintStream` adds functionality to another output stream, namely the ability to print representations of various data values conveniently.
PrintWriter	Prints formatted representations of objects to a text-output stream.
SpannableStringBuilder	This is the class for text whose content and markup can both be changed.
StringBuffer	A thread-safe, mutable sequence of characters.
StringBuilder	A mutable sequence of characters.
StringWriter	A character stream that collects its output in a string buffer, which can then be used to construct a string.
Writer	Abstract class for writing to character streams.

An object to which char sequences and values can be appended. The Appendable interface must be implemented by any class whose instances are intended to receive formatted output from a Formatter.

The characters to be appended should be valid Unicode characters as described in Unicode Character Representation. Note that supplementary characters may be composed of multiple 16-bit char values.

Appendables are not necessarily safe for multithreaded access. Thread safety is the responsibility of classes that extend and implement this interface.

Since this interface may be implemented by existing classes with different styles of error handling there is no guarantee that errors will be propagated to the invoker.

Summary

Public methods
`abstract Appendable`	`append(char c)` Appends the specified character to this `Appendable`.
`abstract Appendable`	`append(CharSequence csq, int start, int end)` Appends a subsequence of the specified character sequence to this `Appendable`.
`abstract Appendable`	`append(CharSequence csq)` Appends the specified character sequence to this `Appendable`.

Public methods

append

Added in API level 1

public abstract Appendable append (char c)

Appends the specified character to this Appendable.

Parameters
`c`	`char`: The character to append

Returns
`Appendable`	A reference to this `Appendable`

Throws
`IOException`	If an I/O error occurs

append

Added in API level 1

public abstract Appendable append (CharSequence csq, 
                int start, 
                int end)

Appends a subsequence of the specified character sequence to this Appendable.

An invocation of this method of the form out.append(csq, start, end) when csq is not null, behaves in exactly the same way as the invocation

     out.append(csq.subSequence(start, end))

Parameters
`csq`	`CharSequence`: The character sequence from which a subsequence will be appended. If `csq` is `null`, then characters will be appended as if `csq` contained the four characters `"null"`.
`start`	`int`: The index of the first character in the subsequence
`end`	`int`: The index of the character following the last character in the subsequence

Returns
`Appendable`	A reference to this `Appendable`

Throws
`IndexOutOfBoundsException`	If `start` or `end` are negative, `start` is greater than `end`, or `end` is greater than `csq.length()`
`IOException`	If an I/O error occurs

append

Added in API level 1

public abstract Appendable append (CharSequence csq)

Appends the specified character sequence to this Appendable.

Depending on which class implements the character sequence csq, the entire sequence may not be appended. For instance, if csq is a CharBuffer then the subsequence to append is defined by the buffer's position and limit.

Parameters
`csq`	`CharSequence`: The character sequence to append. If `csq` is `null`, then the four characters `"null"` are appended to this Appendable.

Returns
`Appendable`	A reference to this `Appendable`

Throws
`IOException`	If an I/O error occurs