Buffered java.io.RandomAccessFile

Now for some total randomness. I'm posting this because I know someday, someone, somewhere out there, will come across this exact same problem and will google for it. The solutions I found via google were meh, and I know I would've liked to have this. So I post this for the children of the future (unless Sun gets its act together).

/**
*  A subclass of RandomAccessFile to enable basic buffering to a byte array
*  Copyright (C) 2009 minddumped.blogspot.com

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*/

package ed.javatools;

import java.io.RandomAccessFile;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
*
* @author minddumped.blogspot.com
*/
public class BufferedRaf extends RandomAccessFile {

 public BufferedRaf(File file, String mode) throws FileNotFoundException {
  super(file, mode);
  bufferlength = 65536;
  bytebuffer = new byte[bufferlength];
  maxread = 0;
  buffpos = 0;
  sb = new StringBuilder("0");
 }

 private byte[] bytebuffer;
 private int bufferlength;
 private int maxread;
 private int buffpos;
 private StringBuilder sb;

 public int getbuffpos() {
  return buffpos;
 }

 @Override
 public int read() throws IOException {
  if (buffpos >= maxread) {
   maxread = readchunk();
   if (maxread == -1) {
    return -1;
   }
  }
  buffpos++;
  return bytebuffer[buffpos - 1] & 0xFF;
 }

 public String readLine2() throws IOException {
  sb.delete(0, sb.length());
  int c = -1;
  boolean eol = false;
  while (!eol) {
   switch (c = read()) {
   case -1:
   case '\n':
    eol = true;
    break;
   case '\r':
    eol = true;
    long cur = getFilePointer();
    if ((read()) != '\n') {
     seek(cur);
    }
    break;
   default:
    sb.append((char) c);
    break;
   }
  }

  if ((c == -1) && (sb.length() == 0)) {
   return null;
  }
  return sb.toString();
 }

 @Override
 public long getFilePointer() throws IOException {
  return super.getFilePointer() + buffpos;
 }

 @Override
 public void seek(long pos) throws IOException {
  if (maxread != -1 && pos < (super.getFilePointer() + maxread) && pos > super.getFilePointer()) {
   Long diff = (pos - super.getFilePointer());
   if (diff < Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
    buffpos = diff.intValue();
   } else {
    throw new IOException("something wrong w/ seek");
   }
  } else {
   buffpos = 0;
   super.seek(pos);
   maxread = readchunk();
  }
 }

 private int readchunk() throws IOException {
  long pos = super.getFilePointer() + buffpos;
  super.seek(pos);
  int read = super.read(bytebuffer);
  super.seek(pos);
  buffpos = 0;
  return read;
 }
}

Some notes:
1) This is only for buffered reading.

2) Most read type methods in RAF end up calling read(), so read() is the only method that really needs to be overridden. The exceptions are the read(byte b[]), read(byte b[], int off, int len), readFully(byte b[]) and readFully(byte b[], int off, int len) methods. They end up calling a private readBytes method. It's probably not a big deal, since in those methods you're asking for a byte array anyway, but it will throw off the buffpos file pointer!

3) If you're calling lots of readLine(), the readLine() in the original RAF sucks. It constantly creates a new StringBuffer object which is unnecessary and can really slow things down. In my class, I reuse a StringBuilder and just delete the contents. Unfortunately, for some dumbass reason, readLine() is final, so my method is readLine2(). From a simple test of reading through a file using readline, I find the performance is nearly the same as using BufferedReader.

4) people on the Sun Forums are total fucking douchebags. Don't ever go there looking for help.