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Creating GraphViz graphics in Java without an intermediate file

I would like to use GraphViz to generate some graphs in my program. There is only a problem: I do not want to generate a temporary file.

Here is what I got from here:

public class GraphBuilder{
    /* Some code generating a DOT formatted String representing my graph */

    /* Generation the graph using the plain format */
    Runtime runtime = Runtime.getRuntime();
    Process p = null;
    try {
        p = runtime.exec("neato -Tplain c:\\users\\tristan\\desktop\\test1");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        System.err.println(e.getMessage());
    }

    BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(p.getInputStream()));
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
    String line = null;
    try{
        while ( (line = br.readLine()) != null) {
           builder.append(line);
           builder.append(System.getProperty("line.separator"));
        }
    } catch(IOException e){

    }
    String result = builder.toString();
    System.out.println(result);

So, now my program is reading the file, but I want the neato program to read my String, which was previously generated by the program.

How do i do

Thanks in advance!

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// Create the process
Process process = new ProcessBuilder("neato", "-Tplain").start();

// Write to process stdin
OutputStream osToProcess = process.getOutputStream();
PrintWriter pwToProcess = new PrintWriter(osToProcess);
pwToProcess.write("graph G { node1 -- node2; }"); // for example
pwToProcess.close();

// Read from process stdout
InputStream isFromProcess = process.getInputStream();
BufferedReader brFromProcess = new BufferedReader(isFromProcess);
// do whatever you want with the reader, then...
brFromProcess.close();

// optionally...
process.waitFor();

I skipped the exception handling of this sample code - you will need to enter it according to your requirements. It is enough to wrap all this in a try / catch block - it depends on what you need.

I confirmed that I neatoread / write stdin / stdout on the command line:

$ echo 'graph G { n1 -- n2; }' | neato -Tplain
graph 1 1.3667 1.2872
node n1 0.375 0.25 0.75 0.5 n1 solid ellipse black lightgrey
node n2 0.99169 1.0372 0.75 0.5 n2 solid ellipse black lightgrey
edge n1 n2 4 0.55007 0.47348 0.63268 0.57893 0.7311 0.70457 0.81404 0.81044 solid black
stop
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