Here is my code flow for which file content is getting lost and I think may be IOUtils.toByteArray() line is problem, please guide what is actually going wrong here.
File content getting lost :
InputStream stream = someClient.downloadApi(fileId);
byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(stream);
String mimeType = CommonUtils.fileTypeFromByteArray(bytes);
String fileExtension=FormatToExtensionMapping.getByFormat(mimeType).getExtension();
String filePath = configuration.getDownloadFolder() + "/" ;
String fileName = UUID.randomUUID() + fileExtension;
File file = new File(filePath+fileName);
file.createNewFile();
FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(stream,file);
int length = (int)file.length();
Now length value here is 0 basically no content. Let me tell you that inputStream received from downloadApi() has content for sure thats given. But if I try below modification in code then I'm getting length of file.
File content NOT getting lost:
InputStream stream = someClient.downloadApi(fileId);
byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(stream);
String mimeType = CommonUtils.fileTypeFromByteArray(bytes);
String fileExtension=FormatToExtensionMapping.getByFormat(mimeType).getExtension();
String filePath = configuration.getDownloadFolder() + "/" ;
String fileName = UUID.randomUUID() + fileExtension;
stream = new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes); //Again converted bytes to stream
File file = new File(filePath+fileName);
file.createNewFile();
FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(stream,file);
int length = (int)file.length();
Now here I'm getting file content. Can some body tell what is technically wrong here in first code snippet ?
TIA
No it doesn't.
The first version of your code (reproduced below with some added commentary) fails because you are reading from a stream that is already at the end of stream position.
InputStream stream = someClient.downloadApi(fileId);
// This reads the entire stream to the end of stream.
byte[] bytes = IOUtils.toByteArray(stream);
String mimeType = CommonUtils.fileTypeFromByteArray(bytes);
String fileExtension =
FormatToExtensionMapping.getByFormat(mimeType).getExtension();
String filePath = configuration.getDownloadFolder() + "/" ;
String fileName = UUID.randomUUID() + fileExtension;
File file = new File(filePath+fileName);
file.createNewFile();
// Now you attempt to read more data from the stream.
FileUtils.copyInputStreamToFile(stream,file);
int length = (int)file.length();
When you try to copy from a stream that is at the end of stream, you get ... zero bytes. And that means you get an empty output file.