Convert ImageOutputStream to byte[]

Question

Have been trying to convert ImageOutputStream to byte[] for a while using JAI. Any inputs are appreciated. Thanks.

Sorry here is the code snippet, I am working on. I had to post it earlier. The problem I am facing is that, I am able to get ByteArrayOutputStream from ImageOutputStream. But it always gives me zero bytes. But if I use a FileOutputStream instead of a ByteArrayOuputStream, I can write into a file which has non zero bytes. :

File file = new File("C:/TIFFImages/tiff-image.tiff");
FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);
long filelength = file.length();
byte[] bytes = new byte[(int)filelength]; 
int offset = 0; 
int numRead = 0; 

while (offset < bytes.length && (numRead=in.read(bytes, offset, bytes.length-offset)) >= 0) { 
    offset += numRead; 
} 
if (offset < bytes.length) { 
    throw new IOException("Could not completely read file "+file.getName()); 
} 

ByteArrayInputStream bais = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes);

RenderedImage src = JAI.create("stream", SeekableStream.wrapInputStream(bais, true));
RenderedOp renderedOp = MedianFilterDescriptor.create(src, MedianFilterDescriptor.MEDIAN_MASK_SQUARE , 1, null);
BufferedImage image = renderedOp.getAsBufferedImage();

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

ImageOutputStream  ios =  ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(baos);
//Instead of baos if I pass a FileOutputStream to the above function. It writes non zero
//bytes to the output file

TIFFImageWriterSpi tiffspi = new TIFFImageWriterSpi();
ImageWriter writer = tiffspi.createWriterInstance();
RenderedImage renderedImage = PlanarImage.wrapRenderedImage(src);
writer.setOutput(ios);
writer.write(image);
writer.write(null,new IIOImage(image, null, null), param);

System.out.println("After tiff ImageIO operations" + baos.toByteArray().length);

Thanks , Vinay

Answer 1

Well, you won't be able to read from an output stream.

You should rather try to get an InputStream from your image object and read the necessary data from there.

However, if you gave more details about what you are actually trying to achieve we could help you more efficiently. :)

For instance if you are only willing to display the size of the images in bytes, there are several other ways.

Answer 2

I got the answer for this, which is very close to what Guillaume suggested. Except that no need to write to a temp file in between. The following is the modified code to convert ImageOutputStream to byte[] :

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(37628); ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(baos);

//Instead of baos if I pass a FileOutputStream to the above function. It writes non zero //bytes to the output file

TIFFImageWriterSpi tiffspi = new TIFFImageWriterSpi(); ImageWriter writer = tiffspi.createWriterInstance(); RenderedImage renderedImage = PlanarImage.wrapRenderedImage(src); writer.setOutput(ios); writer.write(image); writer.write(null,new IIOImage(image, null, null), param);

//Create a ByteArrayInputStream to read that ByteArrayOutputStream and read it from ImageIO

ByteArrayInputStream bai = new ByteArrayInputStream(baos.toByteArray()); RenderedImage out = ImageIO.read(bai); int size = bos.toByteArray().length;

System.out.println(""+ size);

return bos.toByteArray

Answer 3

Hello Vinay, even I was running into the same issue. How did you resolve this. even i put this ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(37628); ImageOutputStream ios = ImageIO.createImageOutputStream(baos);
It was not workign. Help me if you could have resolved this earlier. thanks