Question

I need help on my homework, any help will be much appreciated. I can send small files without a problem. But when i try to send let’s say a 1GB file byte array sends OutOfMemoryError so i need a better solution to send file from server to client. How can i improve this code and send big files, please help me.

Server Code:

    FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
    byte[] fileByte = new byte[fis.available()]; //This causes the problem.
    bytesRead = fis.read(fileByte);
    oos = new ObjectOutputStream(sock.getOutputStream());
    oos.writeObject(fileByte);

Client Code:

    ois = new ObjectInputStream(sock.getInputStream());
    byte[] file = (byte[]) ois.readObject();
    fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
    fos.write(file);

Answer 1

Here’s how I solved it:

Client Code:

 bis=new BufferedInputStream(sock.getInputStream());
 fos = new FileOutputStream(file);
 int n;
 byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
 while ((n = bis.read(buffer)) > 0){
 fos.write(buffer, 0, n);}

Server Code:

 bos= new BufferedOutputStream(sock.getOutputStream());
 FileInputStream fis = new FileInputStream(file);
 BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream(fis);
 int n=-1;
 byte[] buffer = new byte[8192];
 while((n = bis.read(buffer))>-1) 
 bos.write(buffer,0,n);