Question

following is my code:

private byte[] downloadImage(String image_url) {
            byte[] image_blob = null;
            URL _image_url = null;
            HttpURLConnection conn = null;
            InputStream inputStream = null;
            try {
                _image_url = new URL(image_url);
            } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            try {
                conn = (HttpURLConnection) _image_url.openConnection();

            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            conn.setDoInput(true);
            try {
                conn.connect();
            } catch (IOException e) {
                // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            conn.setUseCaches(false);
            try {
                inputStream = conn.getInputStream();
                inputStream.read(image_blob);

            } catch (IOException ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            } finally {
                try {
                    inputStream.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {
                    // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                    e.printStackTrace();
                }
                conn.disconnect();
            }
            return image_blob;
        }

What I am trying to do is to get the byte array of an Image. Use it in a parcel to transfer it to another activity.

Using this code a NullPointerException is reported. Can any one say what is wrong?

Answer 1

You might want to try it like this:

DefaultHttpClient client = new DefaultHttpClient();
HttpGet request = new HttpGet(imageUrl);
HttpResponse response = client.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
int imageLength = (int)(entity.getContentLength());
InputStream is = entity.getContent();

byte[] imageBlob = new byte[imageLength];
int bytesRead = 0;
while (bytesRead < imageLength) {
    int n = is.read(imageBlob, bytesRead, imageLength - bytesRead);
    if (n <= 0)
        ; // do some error handling
    bytesRead += n;
}

And by the way: The NullPointerException is caused because image_blob is null. You need to allocate the array first before you can read data into it.