com.digitallizard.bbcnewsreader.resource.web.ImageDownloader.java Source code

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/*******************************************************************************
 * BBC News Reader
 * Released under the BSD License. See README or LICENSE.
 * Copyright (c) 2011, Digital Lizard (Oscar Key, Thomas Boby)
 * All rights reserved.
 ******************************************************************************/
package com.digitallizard.bbcnewsreader.resource.web;

import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;

import org.apache.http.util.ByteArrayBuffer;

public class ImageDownloader {
    public static byte[] getImage(URL url) throws Exception {
        URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();

        InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();
        BufferedInputStream inputbuffer = new BufferedInputStream(stream, 8000);

        ByteArrayBuffer arraybuffer = new ByteArrayBuffer(50);
        int current = 0;
        while ((current = inputbuffer.read()) != -1) {
            arraybuffer.append((byte) current);
        }

        byte[] image = arraybuffer.toByteArray();

        return image;
    }
}