Java: Memory efficient ByteArrayOutputStream

Question

I\'ve got a 40MB file in the disk and I need to \"map\" it into memory using a byte array.

At first, I thought writing the file to a ByteArrayOutputStream would be the b

Answer 1

... came here with the same observation when reading a 1GB file: Oracle's ByteArrayOutputStream has a lazy memory management. A byte-Array is indexed by an int and such anyway limited to 2GB. Without dependency on 3rd-party you might find this useful:

static public byte[] getBinFileContent(String aFile) 
{
    try
    {
        final int bufLen = 32768;
        final long fs = new File(aFile).length();
        final long maxInt = ((long) 1 << 31) - 1;
        if (fs > maxInt)
        {
            System.err.println("file size out of range");
            return null;
        }
        final byte[] res = new byte[(int) fs];
        final byte[] buffer = new byte[bufLen];
        final InputStream is = new FileInputStream(aFile);
        int n;
        int pos = 0;
        while ((n = is.read(buffer)) > 0)
        {
            System.arraycopy(buffer, 0, res, pos, n);
            pos += n;
        }
        is.close();
        return res;
    }
    catch (final IOException e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
    catch (final OutOfMemoryError e)
    {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
}