Reading a binary input stream into a single byte array in Java

Question

The documentation says that one should not use available() method to determine the size of an InputStream. How can I read the whole content of an <

Answer 1

I believe buffer length needs to be specified, as memory is finite and you may run out of it

Example:

InputStream in = new FileInputStream(strFileName);
    long length = fileFileName.length();

    if (length > Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
        throw new IOException("File is too large!");
    }

    byte[] bytes = new byte[(int) length];

    int offset = 0;
    int numRead = 0;

    while (offset < bytes.length && (numRead = in.read(bytes, offset, bytes.length - offset)) >= 0) {
        offset += numRead;
    }

    if (offset < bytes.length) {
        throw new IOException("Could not completely read file " + fileFileName.getName());
    }

    in.close();