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Java: How to configure System.out to have autoflush enabled?


I used reflection like so to print out the properties of the System.out object:

System.out.println("Class: " + System.out.getClass().getName());
for (Field field : ObjectUtils.getAllFields(System.out)) {
    field.setAccessible(true);
    System.out.println("> " + field.getType().getSimpleName() + ' ' + field.getName() + " = " + field.get(System.out));
}

This was the result:

Class: java.io.PrintStream
> boolean autoFlush = false
> boolean trouble = false
> Formatter formatter = null
> BufferedWriter textOut = java.io.BufferedWriter@43c1b556
> OutputStreamWriter charOut = java.io.OutputStreamWriter@587e5365
> boolean closing = false
> OutputStream out = org.apache.tools.ant.util.TeeOutputStream@22fcf7ab

As you can see, the autoflush is set to false. So my question is simple -- how do I configure System.out to have autoflush set to true?


Solution

  • Wrap it in another stream:

    PrintStream newOut = new PrintStream(System.out, true);
    // And then set it to out (Credit to David Zimmerman in the comments)
    System.setOut(newOut);