Mega Code Archive
Read the photo file into a byte array
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import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
class Utils {
// read the photo file into a byte array...
public static byte[] getBytesFromFile(File file) throws IOException {
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);
long length = file.length();
if (length > Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
// File is too large
}
byte[] bytes = new byte[(int) length];
int offset = 0;
int numRead = 0;
while (offset < bytes.length
&& (numRead = is.read(bytes, offset, bytes.length - offset)) >= 0) {
offset += numRead;
}
if (offset < bytes.length) {
throw new IOException("Could not completely read file "
+ file.getName());
}
is.close();
return bytes;
}
}
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