[jira] [Updated] (IO-288) Supply a ReverseFileReader

["Georg Henzler (Updated) (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Georg Henzler updated IO-288:
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    Attachment: ReverseFileReader.java
    
> Supply a ReverseFileReader
> --------------------------
>
>                 Key: IO-288
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/IO-288
>             Project: Commons IO
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: Utilities
>            Reporter: Georg Henzler
>         Attachments: ReverseFileReader.java
>
>
> I needed to analyse a log file today and I was looking for a ReverseFileReader: A class that behaves exactly like BufferedReader except that it goes from bottom to top when readLine() is called. I didn't find it in IOUtils and the internet didn't help a lot either, e.g. http://www.java2s.com/Tutorial/Java/0180__File/ReversingaFile.htm is a fairly inefficient - the log files I'm analysing is huge and it is not a good idea to load the whole content in the memory. 
> So I ended up writing an implementation myself using little memory and the class RandomAccessFile - see attached file. It's used follows:
> int blockSize = 4096; // only that much memory is needed, no matter how big the file is
> ReverseFileReader reverseFileReader = new ReverseFileReader(myFile, blockSize, "UTF-8");
> String line = null;
> while((line=reverseFileReader.readLine())!=null) {
>   ... // use the line
>   if(enoughLinesSeen) {
>      break;  
>   }
> }
> reverseFileReader.close();
> I believe this could be useful for other people as well!

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