Re: Retrieving binary content

[Jukka Zitting]

Hi,

On 11/28/06, Ted Roeloffzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

And how do I read the actual data with that inputstream?

It's a standard java.io.InputStream. See the javadocs for example at
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/io/InputStream.html.

A common pattern I use when processing stream data is:

   InputStream data = ...;
   try {
       byte[] buffer = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
       for (int n = data.read(buffer); n != -1; n = data.read(buffer)) {
           // process n bytes of data in buffer
       }
   } finally {
       data.close();
   }

Note especially the finally branch used to guarantee that the stream
gets closed even if an error occurs.

Sorry if this is a stupid question, but i'm not that experienced.

No problem, stupid is the one who doesn't ask. :-)

BR,

Jukka Zitting