How can I read a image file through URI?

Question

I have a image file store in my computer's Image directory on drive E. I name the pathname as:
file:////MyComputerName/e:/image/
the image filename is MyImage.JPG
so I create a ImageIcon use:
String uri  = "file:///MyComputerName/e:/image/";
String imagefilename = "MyImage.JPG";
ImageIcon ii = new ImageIcon( uri+imagefilename);
Image myimage = ii.getImage();but I can not get the image.
Does anyone know what's wrong?
Thank you

Answer 1

Read the documentation for ImageIcon(String path) -- the String is a file path,
not a URL. If you want to pass a URL to ImageIcon, use ImageIcon(URL url).
So, either of the following works:
URL url = new URL("file:///e:/image/MyImage.JPG");
ImageIcon imageIcon1 = new ImageIcon(url);
String path = "e:/image/MyImage.JPG";
ImageIcon imageIcon2 = new ImageIcon(path);In case you even need it, to convert a file into a URL, you can write:
URL url = file.toURI().toURL();And finally, you may want to check out BufferedImage and ImageIO.
You can read in a BufferedImage in one line:
BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(file_or_url_etc);and a BufferedImage offers may advantages over a plain old image.