I have an ArrayList of Objects and i want to store them into the file and also i want to read them from the file to ArrayList. I can successfully write them into the file using writeObject method but when reading from the file to ArrayList, i can only read first object. Here is my code for reading from serialized file
public void loadFromFile() throws IOException, ClassNotFoundException {
FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
ObjectInputStream ois = new ObjectInputStream(fis);
myStudentList = (ArrayList<Student>) ois.readObject();
}
EDIT:
This is the code for writing list into the file.
public void saveToFile(ArrayList<Student> list) throws IOException {
ObjectOutputStream out = null;
if (!file.exists ()) out = new ObjectOutputStream (new FileOutputStream (file));
else out = new AppendableObjectOutputStream (new FileOutputStream (file, true));
out.writeObject(list);
}
Rest of my class is
public class Student implements Serializable {
String name;
String surname;
int ID;
public ArrayList<Student> myStudentList = new ArrayList<Student>();
File file = new File("src/files/students.txt");
public Student(String namex, String surnamex, int IDx) {
this.name = namex;
this.surname = surnamex;
this.ID = IDx;
}
public Student(){}
//Getters and Setters
public void add() {
Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
System.out.println("name");
String name = input.nextLine();
System.out.println("surname");
String surname = input.nextLine();
System.out.println("ID");
int ID = input.nextInt();
Ogrenci studenttemp = new Ogrenci(name, surname, ID);
myOgrenciList.add(studenttemp);
try {
saveToFile(myOgrenciList, true);
}
catch (IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
Ok so you are storing whole list of students every time when new student comes in, so basicly what your file is keeping is:
I know you are probably thought it will write only new students in incremental fashion, but you were wrong here .
You should rather add all students you want to store, into the list first. And then store complete list into the file , just like you are doing it.
Now, when you will be reading from the filre, first readObject
will return you the list no.1 - that is why you are getting list with only one student. Second read would give you list no.2 and so on.
So you save your data you either have to:
To read it back:
readObject
once, so you will get List<Students>
readObject