getting byte array from image

[jules_]

Hi all,

please dont shoot me down for posting on this topic again, I am well aware that this is detailed on many different forums...... my probem is that I cant seem to get the solutions to work. I can successfully send an image to my server if the image is stored in the res folder using getimageasresource() (not sure of the excact wording of this method) as this returns a byte array and then i simply send that. My problem is getting bytes from an image stored on the device. I can create an image stored on the device using fileconnection api and display it on screen but I need it in bytes to be able to send it. Does anyone know of a way which definately works as as have tried many methods which all create an image on the server but the image format is then unrecognisable bec ause I am not converting the image to bytes properly.

my current code is :

int width = 0;
int height = 0;

try {
Image im = Image.createImage("/camera.png");
width = im.getWidth();
height = im.getHeight();
imgData = new byte[width*height*4];
rgbArray = new int[width*height];
rgbArray = im.getRGB();
}
catch(Exception e) {}

for(int ii=0; ii<rgbArray.length*4; ii+=4)
{
imgData[ii+0] = (byte) (rgbArray[ii/4] >> 24);
imgData[ii+1] = (byte) ((rgbArray[ii / 4] >> 16) & 0x000000FF);
imgData[ii+2] = (byte) ((rgbArray[ii / 4] >> 8) & 0x000000FF);
imgData[ii+3] = (byte) (rgbArray[ii / 4] & 0x000000FF);
}

I have seen this posted a few times elsewhere but it doent seem to work.

Any help or ideas I would really appreciate them as this is getting to be very annoying.

Thank you.

Jules

[grahamhughes]

How doesn't it work? You don't get a byte[], you can't send the byte[], or you can't convert the byte[] back to an image at the other end?

Remember that the byte[] you will end up with from this process is raw ARGB data. It is not in any established "file format", like PNG or JPEG. You won't be able to convert it back to an Image like:

// won't work
Image img = Image.createImage(imgData, 0, imgData.length);

Graham.

[jules_]

Thanks for the reply,

What is the easiest method to create an image from this raw data?? Also I will need to send this data to a server where php will re-create the image.
The issue I am currently having as as you pointed out the data is not directly convertable to an image.

Many thanks

Jules

[grahamhughes]

The data from Image.getRGB() can be converted back into an Image using Image.createRGBImage().

However, if you are getting the original image from a file, then your best bet is to keep the original file, and send that.

I'm not sure why you find getResourceAsStream() OK, and have a problem file FileConnection. Both enable you to get an InputStream, from which you can read the bytes into a byte array. I suggest you go back to the original problem, and try again to solve that.

Graham.

[thiagobrunoms]

Hello,
if you are able to get your image using FileConnection api, you can have a InputStream object from your file connection object. So, to get the byte data, you can do:

InputStream input = //input reference from you FileConnection reference

byte[] imageInBytes = new byte[size];

input.read(imageInBytes);

[]'s

[jules_]

Thanks again for your replies..... my code is now as follows

conn = (FileConnection) Connector.open(filePaths[storedImages[0]],Connector.READ);//path of my image (which exists as Im displaying it)

is = conn.openInputStream();
review0 = Image.createImage(is);//review0is an image object
imageDataLength = is.available();//imageDataLength is a global int
System.out.println("imagelength is "+imageDataLength);//this si giving me 0???
imgData1 = new byte[imageDataLength];//imgData1 is a global byte []
is.read(imgData1);

Now I know I am on the right lines as this is similar to how I got it to work for the resource images. Can you see where Im going wrong??

Many thanks

Jules

[grahamhughes]

OK... three problems...

review0 = Image.createImage(is);

This reads data from the stream, so there won't be any left for you to read.

imageDataLength = is.available();

Does this always return zero? That might be because: this always returns zero. Check the JavaDocs. available() doesn't return the length of a file; that's not what it's for. Be very careful when using available(). You can be tricked because, in some cases, on some devices, it might seem to do what you want.

is.read(imgData1);

This is another InputStream thing to take care with. Check the JavaDocs, see the phrase "Reads some number of bytes...". That means, it doesn't always read the number of bytes you expect. You need to check the return value, and see how much actually got read. (The skip() method as a similar gotcha.)

Try this instead:

conn = (FileConnection) Connector.open(filePaths[storedImages[0]],Connector.READ);
// get the size of the file
final int fileSize = (int) conn.fileSize();
// create a big enough buffer
byte[] imgData = new byte[fileSize];
// open the stream
is = conn.openInputStream();
// ...don't call createImage() here, or there will be no more data to read next
// this will track the number of bytes we've read so far
int bytesRead = 0;
// we keep reading, until we've read everything
while (bytesRead < fileSize) {
    bytesRead += is.read(imgData, bytesRead, fileSize - bytesRead);
} 

Graham.

[jules_]

Hi,

this now works perfectly. You were right, it was the available() method which was causing problems. Thank you very much for your help.

Jules

[angry_boy]

Graham you are great.