How to merge multiple pdf files (generated on run time) through ItextSharp then printing them.
I found the following link but that method requires the pdf names considering that the pdf files stored and this is not my case .
I have multiple reports i'll convert them to pdf files through this method :
private void AddReportToResponse(LocalReport followsReport)
{
string mimeType;
string encoding;
string extension;
string[] streams = new string[100];
Warning[] warnings = new Warning[100];
byte[] pdfStream = followsReport.Render("PDF", "", out mimeType, out encoding, out extension, out streams, out warnings);
//Response.Clear();
//Response.ContentType = mimeType;
//Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=Application." + extension);
//Response.BinaryWrite(pdfStream);
//Response.End();
}
Now i want to merge all those generated files (Bytes) in one pdf file to print it
If you want to merge source documents using iText(Sharp), there are two basic situations:
You really want to merge the documents, acquiring the pages in their original format, transfering as much of their content and their interactive annotations as possible. In this case you should use a solution based on a member of the Pdf*Copy* family of classes.
You actually want to integrate pages from the source documents into a new document but want the new document to govern the general format and don't care for the interactive features (annotations...) in the original documents (or even want to get rid of them). In this case you should use a solution based on the PdfWriter class.
You can find details in chapter 6 (especially section 6.4) of iText in Action — 2nd Edition. The Java sample code can be accessed here and the C#'ified versions here.
A simple sample using PdfCopy is Concatenate.java / Concatenate.cs. The central piece of code is:
byte[] mergedPdf = null;
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
using (Document document = new Document())
{
using (PdfCopy copy = new PdfCopy(document, ms))
{
document.Open();
for (int i = 0; i < pdf.Count; ++i)
{
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(pdf[i]);
// loop over the pages in that document
int n = reader.NumberOfPages;
for (int page = 0; page < n; )
{
copy.AddPage(copy.GetImportedPage(reader, ++page));
}
}
}
}
mergedPdf = ms.ToArray();
}
Here pdf can either be defined as a List<byte[]> immediately containing the source documents (appropriate for your use case of merging intermediate in-memory documents) or as a List<String> containing the names of source document files (appropriate if you merge documents from disk).
An overview at the end of the referenced chapter summarizes the usage of the classes mentioned:
PdfCopy: Copies pages from one or more existing PDF documents. Major downsides: PdfCopy doesn’t detect redundant content, and it fails when concatenating forms.
PdfCopyFields: Puts the fields of the different forms into one form. Can be used to avoid the problems encountered with form fields when concatenating forms using PdfCopy. Memory use can be an issue.
PdfSmartCopy: Copies pages from one or more existing PDF documents. PdfSmartCopy is able to detect redundant content, but it needs more memory and CPU than PdfCopy.
PdfWriter: Generates PDF documents from scratch. Can import pages from other PDF documents. The major downside is that all interactive features of the imported page (annotations, bookmarks, fields, and so forth) are lost in the process.
I used iTextsharp with c# to combine pdf files. This is the code I used.
string[] lstFiles=new string[3];
lstFiles[0]=#"C:/pdf/1.pdf";
lstFiles[1]=#"C:/pdf/2.pdf";
lstFiles[2]=#"C:/pdf/3.pdf";
PdfReader reader = null;
Document sourceDocument = null;
PdfCopy pdfCopyProvider = null;
PdfImportedPage importedPage;
string outputPdfPath=#"C:/pdf/new.pdf";
sourceDocument = new Document();
pdfCopyProvider = new PdfCopy(sourceDocument, new System.IO.FileStream(outputPdfPath, System.IO.FileMode.Create));
//Open the output file
sourceDocument.Open();
try
{
//Loop through the files list
for (int f = 0; f < lstFiles.Length-1; f++)
{
int pages =get_pageCcount(lstFiles[f]);
reader = new PdfReader(lstFiles[f]);
//Add pages of current file
for (int i = 1; i <= pages; i++)
{
importedPage = pdfCopyProvider.GetImportedPage(reader, i);
pdfCopyProvider.AddPage(importedPage);
}
reader.Close();
}
//At the end save the output file
sourceDocument.Close();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
throw ex;
}
private int get_pageCcount(string file)
{
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(File.OpenRead(file)))
{
Regex regex = new Regex(#"/Type\s*/Page[^s]");
MatchCollection matches = regex.Matches(sr.ReadToEnd());
return matches.Count;
}
}
Here is some code I pulled out of an old project I had. It was a web application but I was using iTextSharp to merge pdf files then print them.
public static class PdfMerger
{
/// <summary>
/// Merge pdf files.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="sourceFiles">PDF files being merged.</param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static byte[] MergeFiles(List<Stream> sourceFiles)
{
Document document = new Document();
MemoryStream output = new MemoryStream();
try
{
// Initialize pdf writer
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, output);
writer.PageEvent = new PdfPageEvents();
// Open document to write
document.Open();
PdfContentByte content = writer.DirectContent;
// Iterate through all pdf documents
for (int fileCounter = 0; fileCounter < sourceFiles.Count; fileCounter++)
{
// Create pdf reader
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(sourceFiles[fileCounter]);
int numberOfPages = reader.NumberOfPages;
// Iterate through all pages
for (int currentPageIndex = 1; currentPageIndex <=
numberOfPages; currentPageIndex++)
{
// Determine page size for the current page
document.SetPageSize(
reader.GetPageSizeWithRotation(currentPageIndex));
// Create page
document.NewPage();
PdfImportedPage importedPage =
writer.GetImportedPage(reader, currentPageIndex);
// Determine page orientation
int pageOrientation = reader.GetPageRotation(currentPageIndex);
if ((pageOrientation == 90) || (pageOrientation == 270))
{
content.AddTemplate(importedPage, 0, -1f, 1f, 0, 0,
reader.GetPageSizeWithRotation(currentPageIndex).Height);
}
else
{
content.AddTemplate(importedPage, 1f, 0, 0, 1f, 0, 0);
}
}
}
}
catch (Exception exception)
{
throw new Exception("There has an unexpected exception" +
" occured during the pdf merging process.", exception);
}
finally
{
document.Close();
}
return output.GetBuffer();
}
}
/// <summary>
/// Implements custom page events.
/// </summary>
internal class PdfPageEvents : IPdfPageEvent
{
#region members
private BaseFont _baseFont = null;
private PdfContentByte _content;
#endregion
#region IPdfPageEvent Members
public void OnOpenDocument(PdfWriter writer, Document document)
{
_baseFont = BaseFont.CreateFont(BaseFont.HELVETICA,
BaseFont.CP1252, BaseFont.NOT_EMBEDDED);
_content = writer.DirectContent;
}
public void OnStartPage(PdfWriter writer, Document document)
{ }
public void OnEndPage(PdfWriter writer, Document document)
{ }
public void OnCloseDocument(PdfWriter writer, Document document)
{ }
public void OnParagraph(PdfWriter writer,
Document document, float paragraphPosition)
{ }
public void OnParagraphEnd(PdfWriter writer,
Document document, float paragraphPosition)
{ }
public void OnChapter(PdfWriter writer, Document document,
float paragraphPosition, Paragraph title)
{ }
public void OnChapterEnd(PdfWriter writer,
Document document, float paragraphPosition)
{ }
public void OnSection(PdfWriter writer, Document document,
float paragraphPosition, int depth, Paragraph title)
{ }
public void OnSectionEnd(PdfWriter writer,
Document document, float paragraphPosition)
{ }
public void OnGenericTag(PdfWriter writer, Document document,
Rectangle rect, string text)
{ }
#endregion
private float GetCenterTextPosition(string text, PdfWriter writer)
{
return writer.PageSize.Width / 2 - _baseFont.GetWidthPoint(text, 8) / 2;
}
}
I didn't write this, but made some modifications. I can't remember where I found it. After I merged the PDFs I would call this method to insert javascript to open the print dialog when the PDF is opened. If you change bSilent to true then it should print silently to their default printer.
public Stream addPrintJStoPDF(Stream thePDF)
{
MemoryStream outPutStream = null;
PRStream finalStream = null;
PdfDictionary page = null;
string content = null;
//Open the stream with iTextSharp
var reader = new PdfReader(thePDF);
outPutStream = new MemoryStream(finalStream.GetBytes());
var stamper = new PdfStamper(reader, (MemoryStream)outPutStream);
var jsText = "var res = app.setTimeOut('this.print({bUI: true, bSilent: false, bShrinkToFit: false});', 200);";
//Add the javascript to the PDF
stamper.JavaScript = jsText;
stamper.FormFlattening = true;
stamper.Writer.CloseStream = false;
stamper.Close();
//Set the stream to the beginning
outPutStream.Position = 0;
return outPutStream;
}
Not sure how well the above code is written since I pulled it from somewhere else and I haven't worked in depth at all with iTextSharp but I do know that it did work at merging PDFs that I was generating at runtime.
Tested with iTextSharp-LGPL 4.1.6:
public static byte[] ConcatenatePdfs(IEnumerable<byte[]> documents)
{
using (var ms = new MemoryStream())
{
var outputDocument = new Document();
var writer = new PdfCopy(outputDocument, ms);
outputDocument.Open();
foreach (var doc in documents)
{
var reader = new PdfReader(doc);
for (var i = 1; i <= reader.NumberOfPages; i++)
{
writer.AddPage(writer.GetImportedPage(reader, i));
}
writer.FreeReader(reader);
reader.Close();
}
writer.Close();
outputDocument.Close();
var allPagesContent = ms.GetBuffer();
ms.Flush();
return allPagesContent;
}
}
To avoid the memory issues mentioned, I used file stream instead of memory stream(mentioned in ITextSharp Out of memory exception merging multiple pdf) to merge pdf files:
var parentDirectory = Directory.GetParent(SelectedDocuments[0].FilePath);
var savePath = parentDirectory + "\\MergedDocument.pdf";
using (var fs = new FileStream(savePath, FileMode.Create))
{
using (var document = new Document())
{
using (var pdfCopy = new PdfCopy(document, fs))
{
document.Open();
for (var i = 0; i < SelectedDocuments.Count; i++)
{
using (var pdfReader = new PdfReader(SelectedDocuments[i].FilePath))
{
for (var page = 0; page < pdfReader.NumberOfPages;)
{
pdfCopy.AddPage(pdfCopy.GetImportedPage(pdfReader, ++page));
}
}
}
}
}
}
****/*For Multiple PDF Print..!!*/****
<button type="button" id="btnPrintMultiplePdf" runat="server" class="btn btn-primary btn-border btn-sm"
onserverclick="btnPrintMultiplePdf_click">
<i class="fa fa-file-pdf-o"></i>Print Multiple pdf</button>
protected void btnPrintMultiplePdf_click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
if (ValidateForMultiplePDF() == true)
{
#region Declare Temp Variables..!!
CheckBox chkList = new CheckBox();
HiddenField HidNo = new HiddenField();
string Multi_fofile, Multi_listfile;
Multi_fofile = Multi_listfile = "";
Multi_fofile = Server.MapPath("PDFRNew");
#endregion
for (int i = 0; i < grdRnew.Rows.Count; i++)
{
#region Find Grd Controls..!!
CheckBox Chk_One = (CheckBox)grdRnew.Rows[i].FindControl("chkOne");
Label lbl_Year = (Label)grdRnew.Rows[i].FindControl("lblYear");
Label lbl_No = (Label)grdRnew.Rows[i].FindControl("lblCode");
#endregion
if (Chk_One.Checked == true)
{
HidNo .Value = llbl_No .Text.Trim()+ lbl_Year .Text;
if (File.Exists(Multi_fofile + "\\" + HidNo.Value.ToString() + ".pdf"))
{
#region Get Multiple Files Name And Paths..!!
if (Multi_listfile != "")
{
Multi_listfile = Multi_listfile + ",";
}
Multi_listfile = Multi_listfile + Multi_fofile + "\\" + HidNo.Value.ToString() + ".pdf";
#endregion
}
}
}
#region For Generate Multiple Pdf..!!
if (Multi_listfile != "")
{
String[] Multifiles = Multi_listfile.Split(',');
string DestinationFile = Server.MapPath("PDFRNew") + "\\Multiple.Pdf";
MergeFiles(DestinationFile, Multifiles);
Response.ContentType = "pdf";
Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=\"" + DestinationFile + "\"");
Response.TransmitFile(DestinationFile);
Response.End();
}
else
{
}
#endregion
}
}
private void MergeFiles(string DestinationFile, string[] SourceFiles)
{
try
{
int f = 0;
/**we create a reader for a certain Document**/
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(SourceFiles[f]);
/**we retrieve the total number of pages**/
int n = reader.NumberOfPages;
/**Console.WriteLine("There are " + n + " pages in the original file.")**/
/**Step 1: creation of a document-object**/
Document document = new Document(reader.GetPageSizeWithRotation(1));
/**Step 2: we create a writer that listens to the Document**/
PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.GetInstance(document, new FileStream(DestinationFile, FileMode.Create));
/**Step 3: we open the Document**/
document.Open();
PdfContentByte cb = writer.DirectContent;
PdfImportedPage page;
int rotation;
/**Step 4: We Add Content**/
while (f < SourceFiles.Length)
{
int i = 0;
while (i < n)
{
i++;
document.SetPageSize(reader.GetPageSizeWithRotation(i));
document.NewPage();
page = writer.GetImportedPage(reader, i);
rotation = reader.GetPageRotation(i);
if (rotation == 90 || rotation == 270)
{
cb.AddTemplate(page, 0, -1f, 1f, 0, 0, reader.GetPageSizeWithRotation(i).Height);
}
else
{
cb.AddTemplate(page, 1f, 0, 0, 1f, 0, 0);
}
/**Console.WriteLine("Processed page " + i)**/
}
f++;
if (f < SourceFiles.Length)
{
reader = new PdfReader(SourceFiles[f]);
/**we retrieve the total number of pages**/
n = reader.NumberOfPages;
/**Console.WriteLine("There are"+n+"pages in the original file.")**/
}
}
/**Step 5: we Close the Document**/
document.Close();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
string strOb = e.Message;
}
}
private bool ValidateForMultiplePDF()
{
bool chkList = false;
foreach (GridViewRow gvr in grdRnew.Rows)
{
CheckBox Chk_One = (CheckBox)gvr.FindControl("ChkSelectOne");
if (Chk_One.Checked == true)
{
chkList = true;
}
}
if (chkList == false)
{
divStatusMsg.Style.Add("display", "");
divStatusMsg.Attributes.Add("class", "alert alert-danger alert-dismissable");
divStatusMsg.InnerText = "ERROR !!...Please Check At Least On CheckBox.";
grdRnew.Focus();
set_timeout();
return false;
}
return true;
}
I found this description of implementing a Sentiment Analysis task with OpenNLP. In my case I am using the newest OPenNLP-version, i.e., version 1.8.0. In the following example, they use a Maximum Entropy Model. I am using the same input.txt (tweets.txt)
http://technobium.com/sentiment-analysis-using-opennlp-document-categorizer/
public class StartSentiment {
public static DoccatModel model = null;
public static String[] analyzedTexts = {"I hate Mondays!"/*, "Electricity outage, this is a nightmare"/*, "I love it"*/};
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
// begin of sentiment analysis
trainModel();
for(int i=0; i<analyzedTexts.length;i++){
classifyNewText(analyzedTexts[i]);
}
}
private static String readFile(String pathname) throws IOException {
File file = new File(pathname);
StringBuilder fileContents = new StringBuilder((int)file.length());
Scanner scanner = new Scanner(file);
String lineSeparator = System.getProperty("line.separator");
try {
while(scanner.hasNextLine()) {
fileContents.append(scanner.nextLine() + lineSeparator);
}
return fileContents.toString();
} finally {
scanner.close();
}
}
public static void trainModel() {
MarkableFileInputStreamFactory dataIn = null;
try {
dataIn = new MarkableFileInputStreamFactory(
new File("bin/text.txt"));
ObjectStream<String> lineStream = null;
lineStream = new PlainTextByLineStream(dataIn, StandardCharsets.UTF_8);
ObjectStream<DocumentSample> sampleStream = new DocumentSampleStream(lineStream);
TrainingParameters tp = new TrainingParameters();
tp.put(TrainingParameters.CUTOFF_PARAM, "2");
tp.put(TrainingParameters.ITERATIONS_PARAM, "30");
DoccatFactory df = new DoccatFactory();
model = DocumentCategorizerME.train("en", sampleStream, tp, df);
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (dataIn != null) {
try {
} catch (Exception e2) {
e2.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
public static void classifyNewText(String text){
DocumentCategorizerME myCategorizer = new DocumentCategorizerME(model);
double[] outcomes = myCategorizer.categorize(new String[]{text});
String category = myCategorizer.getBestCategory(outcomes);
if (category.equalsIgnoreCase("1")){
System.out.print("The text is positive");
} else {
System.out.print("The text is negative");
}
}
}
In my case no matter what input String I am using, I am only getting a positive estimation of the input string. Any idea what could be the reason?
Thanks
I want to unmarshal an XML file to java object using JAXB. The XML file is very large and contains some nodes which I want to skip in some cases to improve performance as these elements are non editable by client java program.
A sample XML is as follows:
<Example id="10" date="1970-01-01" version="1.0">
<Properties>...</Properties>
<Summary>...</Summary>
<RawData>
<Document id="1">...</Document>
<Document id="2">...</Document>
<Document id="3">...</Document>
------
------
</RawData>
<Location></Location>
<Title></Title>
----- // more elements
</Example>
I have two use cases:
unmarshal into Example object which contains Properties, Summaries, RawData etc. without skipping any RawData. (already done this part)
unmarshal into Example object which exclude RawData. Elements nested in RawData is very large so do not want to read this in this use case.
Now I want to unmarshal the XML such that RawData can be skipped. I have tried the technique provided at this link.
Using technique provided in above link also skips all elements which come after RawData.
I have fixed the issue with XMLEventReader with following code:
public class PartialXmlEventReader implements XMLEventReader {
private final XMLEventReader reader;
private final QName qName;
private boolean skip = false;
public PartialXmlEventReader(final XMLEventReader reader, final QName element) {
this.reader = reader;
this.qName = element;
}
#Override
public String getElementText() throws XMLStreamException {
return reader.getElementText();
}
#Override
public Object getProperty(final String name) throws IllegalArgumentException {
return reader.getProperty(name);
}
#Override
public boolean hasNext() {
return reader.hasNext();
}
#Override
public XMLEvent nextEvent() throws XMLStreamException {
while (isEof(reader.peek())) {
reader.nextEvent();
}
return reader.nextEvent();
}
#Override
public XMLEvent nextTag() throws XMLStreamException {
return reader.nextTag();
}
#Override
public XMLEvent peek() throws XMLStreamException {
return reader.peek();
}
#Override
public Object next() {
return reader.next();
}
#Override
public void remove() {
reader.remove();
}
#Override
public void close() throws XMLStreamException {
reader.close();
}
private boolean isEof(final XMLEvent e) {
boolean returnValue = skip;
switch (e.getEventType()) {
case XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT:
final StartElement se = (StartElement) e;
if (se.getName().equals(qName)) {
skip = true;
returnValue = true;
}
break;
case XMLStreamConstants.END_ELEMENT:
final EndElement ee = (EndElement) e;
if (ee.getName().equals(qName)) {
skip = false;
}
break;
}
return returnValue;
}
}
While Unmarshalling just pass this eventReader to the unmarshal method
final JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(classes);
final Unmarshaller um = context.createUnmarshaller();
Reader reader = null;
try {
reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(xmlFile));
final QName qName = new QName("RawData");
final XMLInputFactory xif = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
final XMLEventReader xmlEventReader = xif.createXMLEventReader(reader);
final Example example =
(Example) um.unmarshal(new PartialXmlEventReader(xmlEventReader, qName));
}
} finally {
IOUtils.closeQuietly(reader);
}
I hope this would help
try {
// First create a new XMLInputFactory
XMLInputFactory inputFactory = XMLInputFactory.newInstance();
// Setup a new eventReader
InputStream in = new FileInputStream("myXml");
XMLEventReader eventReader = inputFactory.createXMLEventReader(in);
// Read the XML document
Example example = null;
while (eventReader.hasNext()) {
XMLEvent event = eventReader.nextEvent();
if (event.isStartElement()) {
StartElement startElement = event.asStartElement();
// If we have a example element we create a new example
if (startElement.getName().getLocalPart().equals("Example")) {
example = new Example();
// We read the attributes from this tag and add the date
// and id attribute to our object
Iterator<Attribute> attributes = startElement
.getAttributes();
while (attributes.hasNext()) {
Attribute attribute = attributes.next();
if (attribute.getName().toString().equals("date")) {
example.setDate(attribute.getValue());
} else if (attribute.getName().toString().equals("id")) {
example.setId(attribute.getValue());
}
}
}
//get the Properties tag and add to object example
if (event.isStartElement()) {
if (event.asStartElement().getName().getLocalPart()
.equals("Properties")) {
event = eventReader.nextEvent();
example.setProperites(event.asCharacters().getData());
continue;
}
}
//get the Summary tag and add to object example
if (event.asStartElement().getName().getLocalPart()
.equals("Summary")) {
event = eventReader.nextEvent();
example.setSummary(event.asCharacters().getData());
continue;
}
// when you encounter the Rawdata tag just continue
//without adding it to the object created
if (event.asStartElement().getName().getLocalPart()
.equals("Rawdata")) {
event = eventReader.nextEvent();
// don't do anything
continue;
}
//get the location tag and add to object example
if (event.asStartElement().getName().getLocalPart()
.equals("Location")) {
event = eventReader.nextEvent();
example.setLocation(event.asCharacters().getData());
continue;
}
// read and add other elements that can be added
}
// If we reach the end of an example element/tag i.e closing tag
if (event.isEndElement()) {
EndElement endElement = event.asEndElement();
if (endElement.getName().getLocalPart().equals("Example")) {
//do something
}
}
}
} catch (FileNotFoundException | XMLStreamException e) {
}
I have trained mahout model for three categories Category_A,Category_B,Category_C using 20newsGroupExample , Now i want to classify my documents using this model. Can somebody help me to understand output i am getting from this model.
Here is my output
{0:-2813549.8786637094,1:-2651723.736745838,2:-2710651.7525975127}
According to output category of document is 1, But expected category is 2. Am i going right or something is missing in my code ?
public class NaiveBayesClassifierExample {
public static void loadClassifier(String strModelPath, Vector v)
throws IOException {
Configuration conf = new Configuration();
NaiveBayesModel model = NaiveBayesModel.materialize(new Path(strModelPath), conf);
AbstractNaiveBayesClassifier classifier = new StandardNaiveBayesClassifier(model);
Vector st = classifier.classifyFull(v);
System.out.println(st.asFormatString());
System.out.println(st.maxValueIndex());
st.asFormatString();
}
public static Vector createVect() throws IOException {
FeatureVectorEncoder encoder = new StaticWordValueEncoder("text");
Analyzer analyzer = new StandardAnalyzer(Version.LUCENE_36);
String inputData=readData();
StringReader in = new StringReader(inputData);
TokenStream ts = analyzer.tokenStream("body", in);
CharTermAttribute termAtt = ts.addAttribute(CharTermAttribute.class);
Vector v1 = new RandomAccessSparseVector(100000);
while (ts.incrementToken()) {
char[] termBuffer = termAtt.buffer();
int termLen = termAtt.length();
String w = new String(termBuffer, 0, termLen);
encoder.addToVector(w, 1.0, v1);
}
v1.normalize();
return v1;
}
private static String readData() {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
BufferedReader reader=null;
String line, results = "";
try{
reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("c:\\inputFile.txt"));
while( ( line = reader.readLine() ) != null)
{
results += line;
}
reader.close();
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
return results;
}
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
Vector v = createVect();
String mp = "E:\\Final_Model\\model";
loadClassifier(mp, v);
}
}
i have made a listfield with images, the listfield is parsed from online xml file.
it seems that downloading the images into the listfield is blocking the process of parsing the content of the listfield "text" , i want to show the content of the listfield "text" and then start to proccess the download of the images and then show the images.
here is the code to call the downloader class:
Thread t = new Thread();
{
String imageFilename = imageurlStrin.substring(imageurlStrin.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
String saveDire = "file:///store/home/user/pictures/listfield/"+imageFilename;
try {
FileConnection fconn = (FileConnection)Connector.open(saveDire);
if (fconn.exists()) {
// do nothing
}
if (!fconn.exists()) {
UrlToImage bit = new UrlToImage(imageurlStrin);
pic = bit.getbitmap();
}
}catch (Exception ioe) {
System.out.println("error 18");
}
};
t.start();
and this is the downloader class code:
public class UrlToImage implements Runnable{
String imageurlStrin=null;
BitmapDowloadListener listener=null;
public static Bitmap _bmap;
private EncodedImage eih1;
public void run() {
UrlToImage bit = new UrlToImage(imageurlStrin);
}
public UrlToImage(String imageurlStrin)
{
HttpConnection connection = null;
InputStream inputStream = null;
EncodedImage bitmap;
byte[] dataArray = null;
//byte[] data1 = null;
try
{
connection = (HttpConnection) Connector.open(imageurlStrin, Connector.READ, true);
inputStream = connection.openInputStream();
byte[] responseData = new byte[10000];
int length = 0;
StringBuffer rawResponse = new StringBuffer();
while (-1 != (length = inputStream.read(responseData)))
{
rawResponse.append(new String(responseData, 0, length));
}
int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
if (responseCode != HttpConnection.HTTP_OK)
{
throw new IOException("HTTP response code: "
+ responseCode);
}
final String result = rawResponse.toString();
dataArray = result.getBytes();
}
catch (final Exception ex)
{ }
finally
{
try
{
inputStream.close();
inputStream = null;
connection.close();
connection = null;
}
catch(Exception e){}
}
bitmap = EncodedImage.createEncodedImage(dataArray, 0,dataArray.length);
// this will scale your image acc. to your height and width of bitmapfield
int multH;
int multW;
int currHeight = bitmap.getHeight();
int currWidth = bitmap.getWidth();
int scrhi = Display.getWidth()/4;
int scrwe = Display.getWidth()/4;
multH= Fixed32.div(Fixed32.toFP(currHeight),Fixed32.toFP(scrhi));//height
multW = Fixed32.div(Fixed32.toFP(currWidth),Fixed32.toFP(scrwe));//width
bitmap = bitmap.scaleImage32(multW,multH);
Bitmap thefinal = bitmap.getBitmap();
//url = StringUtils.replaceAll(url ,"http://u.bbstars.com/i-", "");
final String imageFilename = imageurlStrin.substring(imageurlStrin.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
String saveDire = "file:///store/home/user/pictures/listfield/"+imageFilename;
String Dire = "file:///store/home/user/pictures/listfield/";
JPEGEncodedImage finalJPEG = JPEGEncodedImage.encode(thefinal, 100);
byte[] raw_media_bytes = finalJPEG.getData();
int raw_length = finalJPEG.getLength();
int raw_offset = finalJPEG.getOffset();
FileConnection filecon = null;
OutputStream out = null;
try {
filecon = (FileConnection) Connector.open(Dire,Connector.READ_WRITE);
if(!filecon.exists()){
filecon.mkdir();
}
filecon = (FileConnection) Connector.open(saveDire,Connector.READ_WRITE);
if(!filecon.exists()){
filecon.create();
}
out = filecon.openOutputStream();
out.write(raw_media_bytes, raw_offset, raw_length);
out.close();
filecon.close();
System.out.println("----------------file saved"+imageFilename);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("---------------===================- error saving the file");
};
try {
FileConnection fconn = (FileConnection)Connector.open(saveDire);
if (fconn.exists()) {
InputStream input = fconn.openInputStream();
int available = input.available();
final byte[] data1=IOUtilities.streamToBytes(input);
input.read(data1, 0, available);
eih1 = EncodedImage.createEncodedImage(data1,0,data1.length);
}
}catch (Exception ioe) {
System.out.println("error gettin bitmap details from the piture");
}
_bmap=eih1.getBitmap();
}
public Bitmap getbitmap()
{
return _bmap;
}
}
what should i do to prevent UI blocking, i want the perfect why to call that downloader class without stoping the process of parsing the other listfield content?
I think you may just have a simple syntax problem with the way you declared your thread object. See the BlackBerry documentation on Thread here
When you create a Thread, you normally either extend the Thread class with a subclass of your own, that implements the run() method, or you pass a new Runnable object in to the constructor of your Thread object. In your code, you actually declare a Thread instance, and create it, but do not give it a Runnable, or override the default run() method. So, this thread won't do anything in the background.
You have essentially declared a chunk of code within a local scope. That's what happens if you just put some code within a set of curly brackets ({ and }) that are not attached to anything:
Thread t = new Thread();
// this next curly bracket starts a "local scope". it is NOT part of Thread t!
{
String imageFilename = imageurlStrin.substring(imageurlStrin.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
// The rest of your code here will not be executed on Thread t. It will be executed
// on the thread where you instantiate Thread t, right before you call t.start();
// If this code is called on the main/UI thread (which it probably is), then the
// network request will block the UI thread, which will stop the loading of the rest
// of the list.
};
t.start();
What you probably want is this:
Thread t = new Thread(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
String imageFilename = imageurlStrin.substring(imageurlStrin.lastIndexOf('/') + 1);
String saveDire = "file:///store/home/user/pictures/listfield/"+imageFilename;
try {
FileConnection fconn = (FileConnection)Connector.open(saveDire);
if (fconn.exists()) {
// do nothing
}
if (!fconn.exists()) {
UrlToImage bit = new UrlToImage(imageurlStrin);
pic = bit.getbitmap();
}
} catch (Exception ioe) {
System.out.println("error 18");
}
}
});
t.start();
Try that, and see if that fixes the problem.