BufferedReader/Writer not working in Java

Question

I'm trying to make two basic functions which will allow me to call them from other classes in order to return a HashMap from the 'getAllData()' and to write to the file in 'writeToFile()', without any luck. I've been tampering with it for a while now and just getting a multitude of strange errors.

Code:

    static HashMap<Integer ,String> getAllData(Integer choice) throws Exception{
    InputStream localInputStream = ClassLoader.getSystemClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("Shadow.txt");
    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(localInputStream));
    if (choice.equals(1)){
        while ((!data.equals(null))){
            data = br.readLine();
            dataString = dataString+data;
        }
        writeToFile(dataString);
        br.close(); 
    }return name;
}

static void writeToFile(String data) throws IOException{;
    File file = new File ("Shadow.txt");
    FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(file, true);
    BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
    bw.write(data);
    bw.newLine();
    bw.flush();
    bw.close();
}

With this current code, nothing happens. The file remains exactly how it is, although to me, the code should read everything from it, and then append it.

How can I fix this? Thanks

Answer 1

This might help you:

static void getAllData(final Integer choice) throws Exception {
    final BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("Shadow.txt"));
    String data = "";
    final StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    if(choice.equals(1)) {
        while(data != null) {
            data = br.readLine();
            if(data != null) {
                builder.append(data + "\n");
            }
        }
        writeToFile(builder.toString());
        br.close();
    }
}

static void writeToFile(final String data) throws IOException {
    final File file = new File("Shadow.txt");
    final FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(file, true);
    final BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(fileWriter);
    bw.write(data);
    bw.flush();
    bw.close();
}