How to send images through sockets in java?

Question

I am writing a client-server program and I want that to send an image. The code is the following:

//RECEIVER
while(true){
  try{
            socket = server.         


        

Answer 1

You can find a (non-compiling) example at easywayprogramming.

I have simplified it and fixed the errors, I hope that this is a useful answer to your question.

Run the server first, then run the client as often as you want.

The example will take a screenshot of the upper left 200x100 pixels of your screen, send them to the server which will open a new window and display the screenshot.

GreetingServer.java

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.ServerSocket;
import java.net.Socket;
import java.net.SocketTimeoutException;
import java.sql.SQLException;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;
import javax.swing.ImageIcon;
import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JLabel;

public class GreetingServer extends Thread
{
       private ServerSocket serverSocket;
       Socket server;

       public GreetingServer(int port) throws IOException, SQLException, ClassNotFoundException, Exception
       {
          serverSocket = new ServerSocket(port);
          serverSocket.setSoTimeout(180000);
       }

       public void run()
       {
           while(true)
          { 
               try
               {
                  server = serverSocket.accept();
                  BufferedImage img=ImageIO.read(ImageIO.createImageInputStream(server.getInputStream()));
                  JFrame frame = new JFrame();
                  frame.getContentPane().add(new JLabel(new ImageIcon(img)));
                  frame.pack();
                  frame.setVisible(true);                  
              }
             catch(SocketTimeoutException st)
             {
                   System.out.println("Socket timed out!");
                  break;
             }
             catch(IOException e)
             {
                  e.printStackTrace();
                  break;
             }
             catch(Exception ex)
            {
                  System.out.println(ex);
            }
          }
       }

       public static void main(String [] args) throws IOException, SQLException, ClassNotFoundException, Exception
       {
              Thread t = new GreetingServer(6066);
              t.start();
       }
}

GreetingClient.java

import java.awt.AWTException;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.Rectangle;
import java.awt.Robot;
import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.Socket;

import javax.imageio.ImageIO;

public class GreetingClient
{
    Image newimg;
    static BufferedImage bimg;
    byte[] bytes;

    public static void main(String [] args)
    {
        String serverName = "localhost";
        int port = 6066;
        try
        {
            Socket client = new Socket(serverName, port);
            Robot bot;
            bot = new Robot();
            bimg = bot.createScreenCapture(new Rectangle(0, 0, 200, 100));
            ImageIO.write(bimg,"JPG",client.getOutputStream());
            client.close();
        } catch(IOException | AWTException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}