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Asked: 2026-05-10T19:38:01+00:00

I am creating an application in java which will be the part of an

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I am creating an application in java which will be the part of an external application. My application contains a viewport which shows some polygons and stuff like that. The external application needs to get the image of the viewport in gif format. For that it calls a method in an interface (implemented by my application) and my application returns the image. The external application needs to store the image in database (or something related to it which I dont need to worry about).

My question is:- What should be the data container type of the image when my application send it to the external application? I mean what should be the return type of the method? Currently my gif encoder class returns a byte array. Is there any other ‘better’ option?

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  1. A byte array could be appropriate if you expect the GIFs to be small, but you might consider using an OutputStream so you can stream bits more efficiently.

    Even if today you just return a fully-populated ByteArrayOutputStream, this would allow you to change your implementation in future without affecting cilent code.

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