Convert bitmap to base64 string in blackberry

Question

I have an image which needs to be sent to the server. Is there a way to convert a bitmap(jpg) to base64 string in blackberry?

Answer 1

Found this one, much faster conversion of Bitmap to byte[]. Exactly what I needed.

import java.io.*;
import javax.microedition.lcdui.Image;
import net.rim.device.api.compress.ZLibOutputStream;

public class MinimalPNGEncoder
{
  public static Image toImage(int width, int height, byte[] alpha, byte[] red, byte[] green, byte[] blue)
{
    try    
    {
    byte[] png = toPNG(width, height, alpha, red, green, blue);
    return Image.createImage(png, 0, png.length);
    }
    catch (IOException e)
    {
    return null;
    }
}

public static byte[] toPNG(int width, int height, byte[] alpha, byte[] red, byte[] green, byte[] blue) throws IOException
 {
    byte[] signature = new byte[] {(byte) 137, (byte) 80, (byte) 78, (byte) 71, (byte) 13, (byte) 10, (byte) 26, (byte) 10};
    byte[] header = createHeaderChunk(width, height);
    byte[] data = createDataChunk(width, height, alpha, red, green, blue);
    byte[] trailer = createTrailerChunk();

    ByteArrayOutputStream png = new ByteArrayOutputStream(signature.length + header.length + data.length + trailer.length);
    png.write(signature);
    png.write(header);
    png.write(data);
    png.write(trailer);
    return png.toByteArray();
 }

public static byte[] createHeaderChunk(int width, int height) throws IOException
{
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(13);
    DataOutputStream chunk = new DataOutputStream(baos);
    chunk.writeInt(width);
    chunk.writeInt(height);
    chunk.writeByte(8); // Bitdepth
    chunk.writeByte(6); // Colortype ARGB
    chunk.writeByte(0); // Compression
    chunk.writeByte(0); // Filter
    chunk.writeByte(0); // Interlace    
    return toChunk("IHDR", baos.toByteArray());
}

public static byte[] createDataChunk(int width, int height, byte[] alpha, byte[] red, byte[] green, byte[] blue) throws IOException
{    
    int source = 0;
    int dest = 0;
    byte[] raw = new byte[4*(width*height) + height];
    for (int y = 0; y < height; y++)
    {
      raw[dest++] = 0; // No filter
      for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
      {
        raw[dest++] = red[source];
        raw[dest++] = green[source];
        raw[dest++] = blue[source];
        raw[dest++] = alpha[source++];
      }
    }
    return toChunk("IDAT", toZLIB(raw));
}

public static byte[] createTrailerChunk() throws IOException
{
    return toChunk("IEND", new byte[] {});
}

public static byte[] toChunk(String id, byte[] raw) throws IOException
{
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(raw.length + 12);
    DataOutputStream chunk = new DataOutputStream(baos);

    chunk.writeInt(raw.length);

    byte[] bid = new byte[4];
    for (int i = 0; i < 4; i++)
    {
        bid[i] = (byte) id.charAt(i);
    }

    chunk.write(bid);

    chunk.write(raw);

    int crc = 0xFFFFFFFF;
    crc = updateCRC(crc, bid);  
    crc = updateCRC(crc, raw);    
    chunk.writeInt(~crc);

    return baos.toByteArray();
}

static int[] crcTable = null;

public static void createCRCTable()
{
    crcTable = new int[256];

    for (int i = 0; i < 256; i++)
    {
      int c = i;
      for (int k = 0; k < 8; k++)
      {
        c = ((c & 1) > 0) ? 0xedb88320 ^ (c >>> 1) : c >>> 1;
      }
      crcTable[i] = c;
    }
}

public static int updateCRC(int crc, byte[] raw)
{
    if (crcTable == null)
    {
      createCRCTable();
    }

    for (int i = 0; i < raw.length; i++)
    {
      crc = crcTable[(crc ^ raw[i]) & 0xFF] ^ (crc >>> 8);      
    }

    return crc;
}

/* This method is called to encode the image data as a zlib
 block as required by the PNG specification. This file comes
 with a minimal ZLIB encoder which uses uncompressed deflate
 blocks (fast, short, easy, but no compression). If you want
 compression, call another encoder (such as JZLib?) here. */
public static byte[] toZLIB(byte[] raw) throws IOException
{
      //used the BB ZLib ...
  ByteArrayOutputStream outBytes = new ByteArrayOutputStream(1024);
  ZLibOutputStream compBytes = new ZLibOutputStream(outBytes, false, 10, 9);
  compBytes.write(raw, 0, raw.length);
  compBytes.close();
  return outBytes.toByteArray();
 //return ZLIB.toZLIB(raw);
 }
}



class ZLIB
{
  static final int BLOCK_SIZE = 32000;

  public static byte[] toZLIB(byte[] raw) throws IOException
{    
    ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(raw.length + 6 + (raw.length / BLOCK_SIZE) * 5);
    DataOutputStream zlib = new DataOutputStream(baos);

    byte tmp = (byte) 8;       
    zlib.writeByte(tmp);                           // CM = 8, CMINFO = 0
    zlib.writeByte((31 - ((tmp << 8) % 31)) % 31); // FCHECK (FDICT/FLEVEL=0)

    int pos = 0;
    while (raw.length - pos > BLOCK_SIZE)
    {
      writeUncompressedDeflateBlock(zlib, false, raw, pos, (char) BLOCK_SIZE);
      pos += BLOCK_SIZE;
    }

    writeUncompressedDeflateBlock(zlib, true, raw, pos, (char) (raw.length - pos));

    // zlib check sum of uncompressed data
    zlib.writeInt(calcADLER32(raw));

    return baos.toByteArray();
 }

 private static void writeUncompressedDeflateBlock(DataOutputStream zlib, boolean last,
                    byte[] raw, int off, char len) throws IOException
 {
    zlib.writeByte((byte)(last ? 1 : 0));         // Final flag, Compression type 0
    zlib.writeByte((byte)(len & 0xFF));           // Length LSB
    zlib.writeByte((byte)((len & 0xFF00) >> 8));  // Length MSB
    zlib.writeByte((byte)(~len & 0xFF));          // Length 1st complement LSB
    zlib.writeByte((byte)((~len & 0xFF00) >> 8)); // Length 1st complement MSB 
    zlib.write(raw,off,len);                      // Data    
 }

 private static int calcADLER32(byte[] raw)
 {
    int s1 = 1;
    int s2 = 0;
    for (int i = 0; i < raw.length; i++)
    {
      int abs = raw[i] >=0 ? raw[i] : (raw[i] + 256);
      s1 = (s1 + abs) % 65521;
      s2 = (s2 + s1) % 65521;      
    }
    return (s2 << 16) + s1;
 }
}

And this is the method that you need to invoke.

public static byte[] toPNG(Bitmap image) throws IOException {

    int imageSize = image.getWidth() * image.getHeight();
    int[] rgbs = new int[imageSize];
    byte[] a, r, g, b;
    int colorToDecode;

    image.getARGB(rgbs, 0, image.getWidth() , 0, 0, image.getWidth(), image.getHeight());

    a = new byte[imageSize];
    r = new byte[imageSize];
    g = new byte[imageSize];
    b = new byte[imageSize];

    for (int i = 0; i < imageSize; i++) {
        colorToDecode = rgbs[i];

        a[i] = (byte) ((colorToDecode & 0xFF000000) >>> 24);
        r[i] = (byte) ((colorToDecode & 0x00FF0000) >>> 16);
        g[i] = (byte) ((colorToDecode & 0x0000FF00) >>> 8);
        b[i] = (byte) ((colorToDecode & 0x000000FF));
    }

    return MinimalPNGEncoder.toPNG(image.getWidth(), image.getHeight(), a, r, g, b);
} 

This is not mine. I am so grateful to Christian Fr�schlin for creating this and letting other developers to use this. This is the link for the terms.

Before i forgot, this one has a limitation. It can converts successfully a bitmap to byte[] which size is less than or equal to 63kb, but if the size exceeds the limit the converted image will be discolored.