How to convert BufferedImage to InputStream?

Question

I am uploading images using servlet. To perform resize operations i am converting InputStream to BufferedImage. Now i want to save it in mongoDB. Since, i am new to mongoDB as far as i know, GridFS takes InputStream.

So, is there any way to convert BufferedImage to InputStream?

Answer 1

You need to save the BufferedImage to a ByteArrayOutputStream using the ImageIO class, then create a ByteArrayInputStream from toByteArray().

Answer 2

First of all you must get your "bytes":

byte[] buffer = ((DataBufferByte)(bufferedImage).getRaster().getDataBuffer()).getData();

And then use ByteArrayInputStream(byte[] buf) constructor to create your InputStream;

Answer 3

try this

ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ImageIO.write(buffImage, "jpg", os);
InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(os.toByteArray());

Answer 4

By overriding the method toByteArray(), returning the buf itself (not copying), you can avoid memory related problems. This will share the same array, and not creating another of the correct size. The important thing is to use the size() method in order to control the number of valid bytes into the array.

final ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream() {
    @Override
    public synchronized byte[] toByteArray() {
        return this.buf;
    }
};
ImageIO.write(image, "png", output);
return new ByteArrayInputStream(output.toByteArray(), 0, output.size());