[Java]Write text to file/stream easily

TextFileWriter.java

/**
 * Copyright 2006-2016 Tom Misawa(riversun.org@gmail.com)
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 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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 */
package org.riversun;

import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * Write text to file/stream easily
 * 
 * @author Tom Misawa (riversun.org@gmail.com)
 *
 */
public class TextFileWriter {

	public static void main(String[] args) {

		// example

		TextFileWriter tw = new TextFileWriter();

		// write text to file
		tw.writeText(new File("c:/temp/tw_text_01.txt"), "This is a test.\nThis is line 2.", false);

		// write string list to file
		final List<String> lines = new ArrayList<String>();
		lines.add("line1");
		lines.add("line2");

		tw.writeLines(new File("c:/temp/tw_text_02.txt"), lines, false);

	}

	private static final String UTF_8 = "UTF-8";

	private final String NEW_LINE = System.getProperty("line.separator");

	/**
	 * Write text to TEXT file as 'UTF-8' text
	 * 
	 * @param file
	 * @param lines
	 * @param append
	 */
	public boolean writeText(File file, String text, boolean append) {
		return writeText(file, text, UTF_8, append);
	}

	/**
	 * Write lines(List<String>) to TEXT file as 'UTF-8' text
	 * 
	 * @param file
	 * @param lines
	 * @param append
	 */
	public boolean writeLines(File file, List<String> lines, boolean append) {
		return writeLines(file, lines, UTF_8, append);
	}

	/**
	 * Write lines(List<String>) to TEXT file
	 * 
	 * @param file
	 * @param lines
	 * @param charset
	 * @param append
	 */
	public boolean writeLines(File file, List<String> lines, String charset, boolean append) {
		final StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

		for (String line : lines) {
			sb.append(line);
			sb.append(NEW_LINE);
		}

		return writeText(file, sb.toString(), charset, append);
	}

	/**
	 * Write text to TEXT file
	 * 
	 * @param file
	 * @param text
	 * @param charset
	 * @param append
	 */
	public boolean writeText(File file, String text, String charset, boolean append) {

		if (file == null) {
			return false;
		}

		FileOutputStream fos = null;

		try {

			fos = new FileOutputStream(file, append);
			writeTextToStream(fos, text, charset);

		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			return false;

		} finally {

			if (fos != null) {
				try {
					fos.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
				}
			}
		}

		return true;

	}

	/**
	 * Write text to Stream
	 * 
	 * @param os
	 * @param text
	 * @param charset
	 * @return
	 */
	public boolean writeTextToStream(OutputStream os, String text, String charset) {

		if (os == null) {
			return false;
		}

		OutputStreamWriter osw = null;
		BufferedWriter bw = null;

		try {

			osw = new OutputStreamWriter(os, charset);
			bw = new BufferedWriter(osw);

			bw.write(text);
			bw.flush();

		} catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			return false;
		} catch (IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
			return false;
		} finally {

			if (bw != null) {
				try {
					bw.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
				}
			}

			if (osw != null) {
				try {
					osw.close();
				} catch (IOException e) {
				}
			}

		}
		return true;
	}
}