Save the provided string as the entire contents of a file, then have this desktop's default browser display the file as HTML. - Java Native OS

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Description

Save the provided string as the entire contents of a file, then have this desktop's default browser display the file as HTML.

Demo Code


import java.awt.Desktop;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileWriter;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URI;

public class Main{
    public static void main(String[] argv) throws Exception{
        String html = "java2s.com";
        render(html);//w  ww.ja va2 s . c  om
    }
    public static final String defaultFileName;
    public static final String HTML_HEADER = "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN\""
            + "\"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd\">\n";
    /**
     * Save the provided string as the entire contents of a file, then
     * have this desktop's default browser display the file as HTML.
     * 
     * @param html the string containing the HTML text.
     * 
     * Preconditions:
     *   The string should contain legal HTML.
     *   The string's outermost tag should be "<html>...</html>".
     */
    public static void render(String html) {
        if (Desktop.isDesktopSupported()) {
            try {
                FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(defaultFileName);
                fw.write(HTML_HEADER);
                fw.write(html);
                fw.close();
            } catch (IOException ioe) {
                System.err.println(ioe);
                ioe.printStackTrace();
            }
            Desktop dt = Desktop.getDesktop();
            URI uri;
            try {
                uri = new File(defaultFileName).toURI();
                dt.browse(uri);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                System.err.println("Error: cannot open file://"
                        + defaultFileName + '.');
            }
        } else {
            System.err
                    .println("Error: unable to open browser in this environment.");
        }
    }
}

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