I have just been told to send the thumbnail of an image using data URI. I have been searching it but all I found was that its basically a textual representation of a file an
E.G. for an image:
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
try {
ImageIO.write(image, "png", baos);
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
String imageString = "data:image/png;base64," +
DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(baos.toByteArray());
Run the code below. If FF is the default browser, you might see something like this:
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.*;
public class DataUriConverter {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
int sz = 200;
BufferedImage image = new BufferedImage(
sz, sz, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
// paint the image..
Graphics2D g = image.createGraphics();
g.setRenderingHint(
RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,
RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
g.setColor(Color.BLUE);
for (int ii = 0; ii < sz; ii += 5) {
g.drawOval(ii, ii, sz - ii, sz - ii);
}
g.dispose();
// convert the image
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageIO.write(image, "png", baos);
System.out.println("baos.toByteArray() " + baos.toByteArray());
System.out.println("baos.toByteArray().length " + baos.toByteArray().length);
String data = DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(baos.toByteArray());
String imageString = "data:image/png;base64," + data;
String html =
"<html><body><img src='" + imageString + "'></body></html>";
// write the HTML
File f = new File("image.html");
FileWriter fw = new FileWriter(f);
fw.write(html);
fw.flush();
fw.close();
// display the HTML
Desktop.getDesktop().open(f);
}
}
Here is my example.
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import javax.xml.bind.DatatypeConverter;
public class ToDataURI {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
// source file
File file = new File("movie.mp4");
// check content type of the file
String contentType = Files.probeContentType(file.toPath());
// read data as byte[]
byte[] data = Files.readAllBytes(file.toPath());
// convert byte[] to base64(java7)
String base64str = DatatypeConverter.printBase64Binary(data);
// convert byte[] to base64(java8)
// String base64str = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(data);
// cretate "data URI"
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
sb.append("data:");
sb.append(contentType);
sb.append(";base64,");
sb.append(base64str);
System.out.println(sb.toString());
}
}
Processing flow
You can get like
data:video/mp4;base64,AAAAIGZ0eXBpc29tAAACAGlzb21p....