Inserting text into an existing file via Java

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Okay, this question is pretty old, but FileChannels exist since Java 1.4 and I don’t know why they aren’t mentioned anywhere when dealing with the problem of replacing or inserting content in files. FileChannels are fast, use them.

Here’s an example (ignoring exceptions and some other stuff):

public void insert(String filename, long offset, byte[] content) {
  RandomAccessFile r = new RandomAccessFile(new File(filename), "rw");
  RandomAccessFile rtemp = new RandomAccessFile(new File(filename + "~"), "rw");
  long fileSize = r.length();
  FileChannel sourceChannel = r.getChannel();
  FileChannel targetChannel = rtemp.getChannel();
  sourceChannel.transferTo(offset, (fileSize - offset), targetChannel);
  sourceChannel.truncate(offset);
  r.seek(offset);
  r.write(content);
  long newOffset = r.getFilePointer();
  targetChannel.position(0L);
  sourceChannel.transferFrom(targetChannel, newOffset, (fileSize - offset));
  sourceChannel.close();
  targetChannel.close();
}

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