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Can I use both PrintWriter and BufferedOutputStream on the same outputstream?
The situation is this:
I’m having a SSLSocket program and I want to be able to transfer both Strings and byte [] over the socket at different points in time easily without having to cast byte [] to string etc, however, PrintWriter only allows me to transfer Strings and BufferedOutputStream only allows me to transfer bytes.
PrintWriter is just a wrapper around original OutputStream.
BufferedOutputStream is a wrapper around OutputStream too.
So you can use both. Why not?
Single thing you should to consider – you should be carefull working with both stream and writer in multithread environment because you can get unpredictable result.
The java.io.Writer class (super class for PrintWriter) use itself as a lock object. So you can also probably use it to synchronize multiple threads.