Android File to Byte Array Read readBytes(@NotNull String filePath)

Description

Reads the contents of a File into a byte[].

License

Apache License

Declaration

@NotNull
public static byte[] readBytes(@NotNull String filePath)
        throws IOException 

Method Source Code

/*/*from w  w  w  .j  av a2  s  .c  om*/
 * Copyright 2002-2013 Drew Noakes
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 *    http://code.google.com/p/metadata-extractor/
 */

import com.drew.lang.annotations.NotNull;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;

public class Main{
    /**
     * Reads the contents of a {@link File} into a <code>byte[]</code>. This relies upon <code>File.length()</code>
     * returning the correct value, which may not be the case when using a network file system. However this method is
     * intended for unit test support, in which case the files should be on the local volume.
     */
    @NotNull
    public static byte[] readBytes(@NotNull File file) throws IOException {
        int length = (int) file.length();
        // should only be zero if loading from a network or similar
        assert (length != 0);
        byte[] bytes = new byte[length];

        int totalBytesRead = 0;
        FileInputStream inputStream = null;
        try {
            inputStream = new FileInputStream(file);
            while (totalBytesRead != length) {
                int bytesRead = inputStream.read(bytes, totalBytesRead,
                        length - totalBytesRead);
                if (bytesRead == -1) {
                    break;
                }
                totalBytesRead += bytesRead;
            }
        } finally {
            if (inputStream != null) {
                inputStream.close();
            }
        }

        return bytes;
    }
    /**
     * Reads the contents of a {@link File} into a <code>byte[]</code>. This relies upon <code>File.length()</code>
     * returning the correct value, which may not be the case when using a network file system. However this method is
     * intended for unit test support, in which case the files should be on the local volume.
     */
    @NotNull
    public static byte[] readBytes(@NotNull String filePath)
            throws IOException {
        return readBytes(new File(filePath));
    }
}

Related

1. getBytesFromFile(File file)
2. getBytesFromFile(File file, long startPostion, long numberOfBytesToRead)
3. getFileAsByteArray(File file)
4. getFileAsByteArrayOutputStream( File file)
5. readBytes(@NotNull File file)
6. readFileBytes(File fx)
7. readFileToByteArray(File file)
8. readFileToByteArray(String filePath)
9. fileToBytes(String filePath)