Is there a simple way to compare BufferedImage instances?

Question

I am working on part of a Java application that takes an image as a byte array, reads it into a java.awt.image.BufferedImage instance and passes it to a third-p

Answer 1

You can write that image via imageio through an OutputStream to a byte[]. In my code, it looks more or less like this:

byte[] encodeJpegLossless(BufferedImage img){...using imageio...}
...
Assert.assertTrue(Arrays.equals(encodeJpegLossless(img1)
                               ,encodeJpegLossless(img2)
                               )
                 );