Java URL Load readBytes(URL url)

Description

reads the content form an url into a ByteArray

License

Open Source License

Declaration

public static byte[] readBytes(URL url) throws IOException 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
/*--------------------------------------------------------------------------*
 | Copyright (C) 2006 Christopher Kohlhaas                                  |
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 | Definition as published by the Open Source Initiative (OSI).             |
 *--------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

import java.net.URL;

public class Main {
    /** reads the content form an url into a ByteArray*/
    public static byte[] readBytes(URL url) throws IOException {
        InputStream in = null;// ww  w . j  a  v  a2  s. c o m
        ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        try {
            in = url.openStream();
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            int count = 0;
            do {
                out.write(buffer, 0, count);
                count = in.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length);
            } while (count != -1);
            return out.toByteArray();
        } finally {
            if (in != null) {
                in.close();
            } // end of if ()
        }
    }
}

Related

1. read(String url)
2. read(URL file)
3. read(URL url, String charsetName)
4. readAsString(URL url)
5. readAsStringUTF8(URL url)
6. readBytesFromURL(String url)
7. readBytesFromUrl(URL url)
8. readContent(URL url)
9. readContentFromFile(URL u, String encoding)