Is there a File.AppendAllText() in Java?

Question

Is there some clean static method to just dump (append) a string to a file?

Answer 1

Yes, see the documentation for FileWriter. Set the second argument to true to append to a file.

Answer 2

No, the closest I am aware of is:

FileWriter writer = new FileWriter(fname, true);
writer.append(yourString);
writer.close();

It's not clean or static, but neither is it the most painful code. :)

Answer 3

Use a PrintWriter like this

FileWriter fileWriter = new FileWriter(fileName, true); // true for append
PrintWriter printWriter = new PrintWriter(fileWriter);

printWriter.append(string);
printWriter.close();

PrintWriter Javadoc

Edit: Sorry I didn't check the right Javadoc for FileWriter. Nowadays it seems to have an append method.

So the PrintWriter isn't really necessary if all you want to do is append.