Java tutorial
/* * StuReSy - Student Response System * Copyright (C) 2012-2014 StuReSy-Team * * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as * published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the * License, or (at your option) any later version. * * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the * GNU Affero General Public License for more details. * * You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ package sturesy.core.backend.services; import java.awt.Graphics2D; import java.awt.image.BufferedImage; import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; import java.io.IOException; import javax.imageio.ImageIO; import javax.swing.ImageIcon; import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64; import sturesy.core.Log; public class ImageService { /** * Encodes the Image into a Base64-encoded String * * @return Base64-encoded String */ public String encodeImage(ImageIcon _questionImage) { if (_questionImage == null) return ""; BufferedImage bi = new BufferedImage(_questionImage.getIconWidth(), _questionImage.getIconHeight(), BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB); Graphics2D g2 = bi.createGraphics(); g2.drawImage(_questionImage.getImage(), 0, 0, null); g2.dispose(); ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); try { ImageIO.write(bi, "png", baos); baos.flush(); } catch (IOException e) { Log.error("error converting image to bytearray", e); } finally { try { baos.close(); } catch (IOException e) { } } return Base64.encodeBase64String(baos.toByteArray()); } }