@DefaultAnnotation(value=edu.umd.cs.findbugs.annotations.NonNull.class)
@Immutable
public final class TFileInputStream
extends DecoratingInputStream

A replacement for the class FileInputStream for reading plain old files or entries in an archive file. Mind that applications cannot read archive files directly - just their entries!

To prevent exceptions to be thrown subsequently, applications should always close their streams using the following idiom:

TFileInputStream in = new TFileInputStream(file);
 try {
     // Do I/O here...
 } finally {
     in.close(); // ALWAYS close the stream!
 }
 

Note that the DecoratingInputStream.close() method may throw an IOException, too. Applications need to deal with this appropriately, for example by enclosing the entire block with another try-catch-block:

try {
     TFileInputStream in = new TFileInputStream(file);
     try {
         // Do I/O here...
     } finally {
         in.close(); // ALWAYS close the stream!
     }
 } catch (IOException ex) {
     ex.printStackTrace();
 }
 

Applications cannot read from an entry in an archive file if an implicit unmount is required but cannot get performed because another TFileInputStream or TFileOutputStream object hasn't been closed or garbage collected yet. A FileNotFoundException is thrown by the constructors of this class in this case.

If you would like to use this class in order to cp files, please consider using one of the cp methods of the class TFile instead. These methods provide ease of use, enhanced features, superior performance and require less space in the temp file folder.