Best way to write String to file using java nio

Question

I need to write(append) huge string to flat file using java nio. The encoding is ISO-8859-1.

Currently we are writing as shown below. Is there any better way to do the same ?

public void writeToFile(Long limit) throws IOException{
     String fileName = "/xyz/test.txt";
     File file = new File(fileName);        
     FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(file, true);  
     FileChannel fileChannel = fileOutputStream.getChannel();
     ByteBuffer byteBuffer = null;
     String messageToWrite = null;
     for(int i=1; i<limit; i++){
         //messageToWrite = get String Data From database
         byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(messageToWrite.getBytes(Charset.forName("ISO-8859-1")));
         fileChannel.write(byteBuffer);         
     }
     fileChannel.close();
}

EDIT: Tried both options. Following are the results.

@Test
public void testWritingStringToFile() {
    DiagnosticLogControlManagerImpl diagnosticLogControlManagerImpl = new DiagnosticLogControlManagerImpl();
    try {
        File file = diagnosticLogControlManagerImpl.createFile();
        long startTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        writeToFileNIOWay(file);
        //writeToFileIOWay(file);
        long endTime = System.currentTimeMillis();
        System.out.println("Total Time is  " + (endTime - startTime));
    } catch (IOException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

/**
 *
 * @param limit
 *            Long
 * @throws IOException
 *             IOException
 */
public void writeToFileNIOWay(File file) throws IOException {
    FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(file, true);
    FileChannel fileChannel = fileOutputStream.getChannel();
    ByteBuffer byteBuffer = null;
    String messageToWrite = null;
    for (int i = 1; i < 1000000; i++) {
        messageToWrite = "This is a test üüüüüüööööö";
        byteBuffer = ByteBuffer.wrap(messageToWrite.getBytes(Charset
            .forName("ISO-8859-1")));
        fileChannel.write(byteBuffer);
    }
}

/**
 *
 * @param limit
 *            Long
 * @throws IOException
 *             IOException
 */
public void writeToFileIOWay(File file) throws IOException {
    FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(file, true);
    BufferedOutputStream bufferedOutputStream = new BufferedOutputStream(
        fileOutputStream, 128 * 100);
    String messageToWrite = null;
    for (int i = 1; i < 1000000; i++) {
        messageToWrite = "This is a test üüüüüüööööö";
        bufferedOutputStream.write(messageToWrite.getBytes(Charset
            .forName("ISO-8859-1")));
    }
    bufferedOutputStream.flush();
    fileOutputStream.close();
}

private File createFile() throws IOException {
    File file = new File(FILE_PATH + "test_sixth_one.txt");
    file.createNewFile();
    return file;
}

Using ByteBuffer and Channel: took 4402 ms

Using buffered Writer : Took 563 ms

Answer 1

UPDATED:

Since Java11 there is a specific method to write strings using java.nio.file.Files:

Files.writeString(Paths.get(file.toURI()), "My string to save");

We can also customize the writing with:

Files.writeString(Paths.get(file.toURI()), 
                  "My string to save", 
                   StandardCharsets.UTF_8,
                   StandardOpenOption.CREATE,
                   StandardOpenOption.TRUNCATE_EXISTING);

ORIGINAL ANSWER:

There is a one-line solution, using Java nio:

java.nio.file.Files.write(Paths.get(file.toURI()), 
                          "My string to save".getBytes("utf-8"),
                          StandardOpenOption.CREATE,
                          StandardOpenOption.TRUNCATE_EXISTING);

I have not benchmarked this solution with the others, but using the built-in implementation for open-write-close file should be fast and the code is quite small.