Converting Image.jpg to byte array

Hi,
How do i convert a image (in any format like .jpeg, .bmp, gif) into a byte array
And also vice versa, converting byte array to image format
Thank you

how about Class.getResourceAsStream(String name).read(byte[] b)?

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Who can tell me, how to convert Image object to byte Array?
Example:
public byte[] convertImage(Image img) {
byte[] b = new byte...........
return b;

Hello,
any way would suit me, I just need a way to convert Image or BufferedImage to a byte[], so that I can save them. Actually I need to save both jpg and gif files without using any 3rd party classes. Please help me out.
thanx and best wishes

How to convert an Image to a byte array?

I want to make a screenshot and then convert the image to a byte of arrays so I can send it through a BufferedOutputStream.
try
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Fixed that. I got a new problem.
When I connect to my simple server application that reads the image file, converts it to an array of bytes and sends it back, the file is created on the client side and it containts data, but I am not able to open the image. I have checked that the image that the server is sending is working. So where is the problem?
The client application recieves the image as following:
public void run()
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            int inputLine;
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                char c = (char)inputLine;
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        catch(IOException err){ err.printStackTrace(); }
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try
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Convert XML data to byte array...

Hello All,
In my application, i have an XML file and the corresponding XSD file. This XML file is having some date, which i want to convert into an byte[] and then save it in a file.
How i can convert the XML data in the byte[]? Here as an example of the xml file and the byte[] data which i want to save in a file.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<HeadersInfo>
<header>
<id>0</id>
<Name>H1</Name>
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<Name>H2</Name>
</header>
</HeasersInfo>
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00 00 00 01 48 31 00 00 00
00 00 00 02 48 32 00 00 00
Here underlines values are for the 'id' parameter where as values in bold are for 'Name' parameter for all the header values in sequence. Name parameter is null (0x00) padded.
Thanks in advance,
IamHuM

Hi,
the following example extract the id, name values using LINQ To Xml and writes it to a memory stream using a binary writer and returns the result as a byte array:
internal static byte[] GetXmlAsByteArray()
var document = XDocument.Parse("<HeadersInfo>"
+ " <header><id>1</id><Name>H1</Name></header>"
+ " <header><id>2</id><Name>H2</Name></header>"
// additional testing
+ " <header><id>32767</id><Name>H1234</Name></header>"
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+ "</HeadersInfo>");
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string name = (string)header.Element("Name");
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writer.Write(GetUIntBytes((uint)id));
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else
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if (nameBytes.Length < NameLength)
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// dump array
foreach (var value in result)
Console.Write("{0:X2} ", value);
Console.WriteLine();
return result;
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value = ((value & 0x00ff) << 24)
| ((value & 0xff00) << 8)
| ((value & 0x00ff0000) >> 8)
| ((value & 0xff000000) >> 24);
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Regards, Elmar

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Hi, lets say i got an image stored in the Image format or byte[]. How can i make it display the image on the screen by taking the values in byte array or Image field?

Thanks rahul,
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and setting the image in the form of a byte [] to the
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byte array so as to give me the image..
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As the forwaded JSP can include both image and Textual (hypertext too)..we can try a work around hear...Lets dedicate a Servlet which retreives byte [] from a view bean and gives us an image output. hear is an example and this could be a way.
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============
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================
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<h1 align="center">Bar Chart </h1>
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<h1 align="center">3D Chart</h1>
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==============
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Hope the stated implementation had given some idea to you....
However,If you want to further look into similar implementations take a look at
http://www.swiftchart.com/exampleapp.htm#e5
which i believe to be a wonderful tutor for such implementations...
However, there are many simple (Open) solutions to the stated problem.. if you are Using MyFaces along with spring... i would recommend usage of JSF Chart Tag which is very simple to use all it requires need is to write a chart Object generating methos inside our backing bean.
For further reference have a look at the below links
http://www.jroller.com/page/cagataycivici?entry=acegi_jsf_components_hit_the
http://jsf-comp.sourceforge.net/components/chartcreator/index.html
NOTE:I've tried it personally using MyFaces it was working gr8 but i had a hardtime on deploying my appln on a Portal Server(Liferay).If you find a workaround i'd be glad to know about it.
& there are many BI Open Source Server Appls that can take care of this work too.(Maintainace wud be a tough ask when we go for this)
For, the design perspective had i've been ur PM i wud have choose BI Server if it was corporate web appln on which we work on.
Hope this might be of some help :)
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