I am creating a program which takes passwords and applies an encoding on them onto a file which I have creatively labeled a PASSWORDFILE file. I am a self taught amateur programmer and this is my first time using streams => I'm sorry my code isn't cleaner. When I add a password to my file, the file refuses to open (giving me a "System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file '[file path here]' because it is being used by another process."). I have made sure I am closing all my streams yet this error still persists.
To add further confusion:
namespace PasswordSaver
{
[Serializable]
class Password
{
public string ID;
string baseWord;
public Password(string password, string ID)
{
this.ID = ID;
baseWord = password;
}
public virtual string GetPassword()
{
return baseWord;
}
}
[Serializable]
class EncodedPassword : Password
{
EncoderAndDecoder Encoder;
public EncodedPassword(string decodedBasePassword, string ID) : base(decodedBasePassword, ID)
{
Encoder = new EncoderAndDecoder();
}
public override string GetPassword()
{
return Encoder.Encode(base.GetPassword(), out _);
}
}
[Serializable]
class EncodedPasswordWithAddendum : EncodedPassword
{
string addendum;
public EncodedPasswordWithAddendum(string decodedBasePassword, string addendum, string ID) : base(decodedBasePassword, ID)
{
this.addendum = addendum;
}
public override string GetPassword()
{
return base.GetPassword() + addendum;
}
}
}
the error only occurs when I attempt to add an EncodedPassword or EncodedPasswordWithAddendum instances but not a Password instance.
My writing code is
namespace PasswordSaver
{
class PasswordWriter
{
public readonly string saveFilePath;
static string directory = Directory.GetCurrentDirectory();
#region Constructors
public PasswordWriter()
{
saveFilePath = directory + @"\PasswordSaver"
+ ".passwordfile";
}
public PasswordWriter(string saveFilePath)
{
this.saveFilePath = saveFilePath;
}
#endregion
#region Individual Writing Functions
private void WriteBinary(object objectToEncode)
{
WriteBinary(objectToEncode, out _);
}
private void WriteBinary(object objectToEncode, out Exception exception)
{
exception = null;
try
{
IFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
Stream fileStream = new FileStream(saveFilePath, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
Stream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
memoryStream.Position = memoryStream.Length;
binaryFormatter.Serialize(memoryStream, objectToEncode);
EncodeFromStream(ref memoryStream, ref fileStream);
fileStream.Close();
memoryStream.Close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
exception = e;
}
}
#endregion
#region File Read and Writing
public void WriteFile(Password[] passwords)
{
if (File.Exists(saveFilePath))
{
Stream stream = new FileStream(saveFilePath, FileMode.Truncate, FileAccess.Write);
stream.Close();
}
WriteBinary(passwords.Length);
foreach (Password password in passwords)
{
WriteBinary(password);
}
}
public void WriteToFile(Password password)
{
Password[] oldPasswords = ReadFile();
Password[] passwords = new Password[oldPasswords.Length + 1];
for (int i = 0; i < oldPasswords.Length; i++)
{
passwords[i] = oldPasswords[i];
}
passwords[oldPasswords.Length] = password;
WriteFile(passwords);
}
public bool ReplacePassword(string oldPasswordID, Password newPassword)
{
Password[] passwords = ReadFile();
for (int i = 0; i < passwords.Length; i++)
{
if (passwords[i].ID == oldPasswordID)
{
passwords[i] = newPassword;
return true;
}
}
return false;
}
public Password[] ReadFile()
{
Stream fileStream = new FileStream(saveFilePath, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.Read);
IFormatter binaryFormatter = new BinaryFormatter();
Stream memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
DecodeFromStream(ref fileStream, ref memoryStream);
fileStream.Close();
memoryStream.Position = 0;
int length = (int) binaryFormatter.Deserialize(memoryStream);
//Console.WriteLine(length + " is the length");//debug
Password[] passwords = new Password[length];
for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
{
//Console.WriteLine(memoryStream.Position + " " + memoryStream.Length);//debug
//Console.WriteLine(i);//debug
passwords[i] = (Password)binaryFormatter.Deserialize(memoryStream);
}
memoryStream.Close();
return passwords;
}
#endregion
#region Encode and Decode
private void EncodeFromStream(ref Stream stream, ref Stream newStream)
{
stream.Position = 0;
newStream.Position = newStream.Length;
for (int i = 0; i < stream.Length; i++)
{
int integer = stream.ReadByte();
byte originalByte = (byte)integer;// get a byte off of the line
//Encode byte here
newStream.WriteByte(setOfBits1);
newStream.WriteByte(setOfBits2);
}
}
private void DecodeFromStream(ref Stream stream, ref Stream newStream)
{
newStream.Position = newStream.Length;
stream.Position = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < (stream.Length / 2); i++)// stream.Length / 2 because the program reads two bytes per iteration of the for loop
{
//I decode the bytes here
newStream.WriteByte(originalByte);
}
}
#endregion
public void WriteContentsToFile()
{
Stream stream = new FileStream(saveFilePath + "1", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
Stream stream1 = new FileStream(saveFilePath, FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
this.DecodeFromStream(ref stream1, ref stream);
stream.Close();
stream1.Close();
}
}
}
I have removed the code that encoded and decoded the streams in EncodeFromStream and DecodeFromStream.
any occurrence of new FileStream(saveFilePath + "1", FileMode.OpenOrCreate, FileAccess.ReadWrite) is a where I was writing to a seperate file in a decoded format. To distinguish the two files I changed the file type from PASSWORDFILE to PASSWORDFILE1.
In Conclusion:
I am using the WriteFile or WriteToFile methods with a Password[] that contains an EncodedPassword or EncodedPasswordWithAddendum. then when I try to open the file through a FileStream (usually through the method ReadFile) I get the Exception "System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file '[file path here]' because it is being used by another process".
Thank you for your help.
