Java.io.FileReader Class

Introduction

The Java.io.FileReader class is a convenience class for reading character files.Following are the important points about FileReader −

The constructors of this class assume that the default character encoding and the default byte-buffer size are appropriate.

FileReader is meant for reading streams of characters. For reading streams of raw bytes, use FileInputStream.

Class declaration

Following is the declaration for Java.io.FileReader class −

pubpc class FileReader
   extends InputStreamReader

Field

Following are the fields for Java.io.FileReader class −

protected Object lock − This is the object used to synchronize operations on this stream.

Class constructors

Class Methods

This class inherits methods from the following classes −

Java.io.InputStreamReader

java.uti.Reader

Java.io.Object