Question

I am trying to downloading image file for Latex formula. Following is the code I am using

    var out: OutputStream = null;
    var in: InputStream = null;

    try {
      val url = new URL("http://latex.codecogs.com/png.download?$$I=\frac{dQ}{dt}$$")

      val connection = url.openConnection().asInstanceOf[HttpURLConnection]
      connection.setRequestMethod("GET")
      in = connection.getInputStream
      val localfile = "sample2.png"
      out = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream(localfile))
      val byteArray = Stream.continually(in.read).takeWhile(-1 !=).map(_.toByte).toArray

      out.write(byteArray)
    } catch {
      case e: Exception => println(e.printStackTrace()) 
    } finally {
      out.close
      in.close
    }

I am able to download but it is not downloading complete image, expected image size is around 517 bytes but it is downloading only 275 bytes. What might be going wrong in it. Attached the incomplete and complete images. Please help me. I have used same code to download files more than 1MB size it worked properly.

Answer 1

You’re passing a bad string, the "\f" is interpreted as an escape sequence and gives you a single “form feed” character.

Better:

val url = new URL("http://latex.codecogs.com/png.download?$$I=\\frac{dQ}{dt}$$")

or

val url = new URL("""http://latex.codecogs.com/png.download?$$I=\frac{dQ}{dt}$$""")