Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition [Electronic resources]

This interface defines the methods required for streams that can read Java primitive data types in a machine-independent binary format. It is implemented by DataInputStream and RandomAccessFile. See DataInputStream for more information on the methods.

public interface 
DataInput  {
// Public Instance Methods
boolean 
readBoolean ( ) throws IOException;  
byte 
readByte ( ) throws IOException;  
char 
readChar ( ) throws IOException;  
double 
readDouble ( ) throws IOException;  
float 
readFloat ( ) throws IOException;  
void 
readFully (byte[ ] 
b ) throws IOException;  
void 
readFully (byte[ ] 
b , int 
off , int 
len ) throws IOException;  
int 
readInt ( ) throws IOException;  
String 
readLine ( ) throws IOException;  
long 
readLong ( ) throws IOException;  
short 
readShort ( ) throws IOException;  
int 
readUnsignedByte ( ) throws IOException;  
int 
readUnsignedShort ( ) throws IOException;  
String 
readUTF ( ) throws IOException;  
int 
skipBytes (int 
n ) throws IOException;  
}

Implementations

DataInputStream, ObjectInput, RandomAccessFile

Passed To

DataInputStream.readUTF( )