Swing & Batik: Create an ImageIcon from an SVG file?

Question

Simply put, I\'m looking for a way to make an ImageIcon from an SVG file using the batik library. I don\'t want to have to raster the SVG to disk first, I just want to be able

Answer 1

I tried using Devon's and John's suggestions, which nearly worked for me. I had to make some tweaks as follows, feel free to use:

package com.corp.util;

import static org.apache.batik.transcoder.SVGAbstractTranscoder.KEY_WIDTH;
import static org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT;
import static org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT_NAMESPACE_URI;
import static org.apache.batik.transcoder.XMLAbstractTranscoder.KEY_DOM_IMPLEMENTATION;
import static org.apache.batik.util.SVGConstants.SVG_NAMESPACE_URI;
import static org.apache.batik.util.SVGConstants.SVG_SVG_TAG;

import com.google.common.flogger.GoogleLogger;

import org.apache.batik.anim.dom.SVGDOMImplementation;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderException;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderInput;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscoderOutput;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.TranscodingHints;
import org.apache.batik.transcoder.image.ImageTranscoder;

import java.awt.image.BufferedImage;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.URL;

import javax.annotation.concurrent.ThreadSafe;
import javax.inject.Singleton;

/** Loads SVG images from disk. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable_Vector_Graphics. */
@Singleton
@ThreadSafe
public class SvgImageLoader {

  private static final GoogleLogger logger = GoogleLogger.forEnclosingClass();

  /**
   * Reads in an SVG image file and return it as a BufferedImage with the given width and a height
   * where the original aspect ratio is preserved.
   *
   * @param url URL referencing the SVG image file, which is typically an XML file
   * @param width width in pixels the returned BufferedImage should be
   *
   * @return a valid image representing the SVG file
   * @throws IOException if the file cannot be parsed as valid SVG
   */
  public static BufferedImage loadSvg(URL url, float width) throws IOException {
    SvgTranscoder transcoder = new SvgTranscoder();
    transcoder.setTranscodingHints(getHints(width));
    try {
      TranscoderInput input = new TranscoderInput(url.openStream());
      transcoder.transcode(input, null);
    } catch (TranscoderException e) {
      throw new IOException("Error parsing SVG file " + url, e);
    }
    BufferedImage image = transcoder.getImage();
    logger.atInfo().log("Read '%s' SVG image from disk requested with width=%.1f, sized as %dx%d pixels.",
        new File(url.getFile()).getName(), width, image.getWidth(), image.getHeight());
    return image;
  }

  private static TranscodingHints getHints(float width) {
    TranscodingHints hints = new TranscodingHints();
    hints.put(KEY_DOM_IMPLEMENTATION, SVGDOMImplementation.getDOMImplementation());
    hints.put(KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT_NAMESPACE_URI, SVG_NAMESPACE_URI);
    hints.put(KEY_DOCUMENT_ELEMENT, SVG_SVG_TAG);
    hints.put(KEY_WIDTH, width);
    return hints;
  }

  private static class SvgTranscoder extends ImageTranscoder {

    private BufferedImage image = null;

    @Override
    public BufferedImage createImage(int width, int height) {
      image = new BufferedImage(width, height, BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
      return image;
    }

    @Override
    public void writeImage(BufferedImage img, TranscoderOutput out) {}

    BufferedImage getImage() {
      return image;
    }
  }
}