Question

I’m getting an NPE while trying to read in an image file, and I can’t for the life of me figure out why. Here is my line:

BufferedImage source = ImageIO.read(new File(imgPath));

imgPath is basically guaranteed to be valid and right before it gets here it copies the file from the server. When it hits that line, I get this stack trace:

Exception in thread "Thread-26" java.lang.NullPointerException
    at com.ctreber.aclib.image.ico.ICOReader.getICOEntry(ICOReader.java:120)
    at com.ctreber.aclib.image.ico.ICOReader.read(ICOReader.java:89)
    at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1400)
    at javax.imageio.ImageIO.read(ImageIO.java:1286)
    at PrintServer.resizeImage(PrintServer.java:981)    <---My function
    <Stack of rest of my application here>

Also, this is thrown into my output window:

Can’t create ICOFile: Can’t read bytes: 2

I have no idea what is going on, especially since the File constructor is succeeding. I can’t seem to find anybody who has had a similar problem. Anybody have any ideas? (Java 5 if that makes any difference)

Answer 1

I poked around some more and found that you can specify which ImageReader ImageIO will use and read it in that way. I poked around our codebase and found that we already had a function in place for doing EXACTLY what I was trying to accomplish here. Just for anybody else who runs into a similar issue, here is the crux of the code (some of the crap is defined above, but this should help anybody who tries to do it):

File imageFile = new File(filename);
Iterator<ImageReader> imageReaders = ImageIO.getImageReadersByFormatName("jpeg");
if ( imageReaders.hasNext() ) {
    imageReader = (ImageReader)imageReaders.next();
    stream = ImageIO.createImageInputStream(imageFile);
    imageReader.setInput(stream, true);
    ImageReadParam param = imageReader.getDefaultReadParam();
    curImage = imageReader.read(0, param);
}

Thanks for the suggestions and help all.