me.edwards.des.block
Class BlockChainIO

java.lang.Object
  me.edwards.des.block.BlockChainIO

public class BlockChainIO
extends java.lang.Object

Handles reading and writing of BlockChains to and from the file system.

Created on: Dec 21, 2015 at 11:28:44 AM

Author:

Matthew Edwards

Field Summary

private static int

BUFFER_SIZE Size of the read/write Buffer

Constructor Summary

BlockChainIO()

Method Summary

static BlockChain	load(java.lang.String fileName) Loads a BlockChain from the specified file.
static void	save(BlockChain bc, java.lang.String fileName) Saves the BlockChain to the specified file.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

BUFFER_SIZE

private static final int BUFFER_SIZE

Size of the read/write Buffer

See Also:

Constant Field Values

Constructor Detail

BlockChainIO

public BlockChainIO()

Method Detail

save

public static void save(BlockChain bc,
                        java.lang.String fileName)
                 throws java.io.IOException

Saves the BlockChain to the specified file.

Parameters:

bc - BlockChain object to save

fileName - Full path of file in which to save

Throws:

java.io.IOException - Thrown if file writing encounters an error

load

public static BlockChain load(java.lang.String fileName)
                       throws java.io.IOException

Loads a BlockChain from the specified file.

Parameters:

fileName - Full path of file from which to load

Returns:

BlockChain loaded from file

Throws:

java.io.IOException - Thrown if file reading encounters an error or the fileName contains an invalid extension. (Only ".block" accepted)