Spring MVC: How to return image in @ResponseBody?

Question

I'm getting image data (as byte[]) from DB. How to return this image in @ResponseBody ?

EDIT

I did it without @ResponseBody using HttpServletResponse as method parameter:

@RequestMapping("/photo1")
public void photo(HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException {
    response.setContentType("image/jpeg");
    InputStream in = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/images/no_image.jpg");
    IOUtils.copy(in, response.getOutputStream());
}

Using @ResponseBody with registered org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter converter as @Sid said doesn't work for me :(.

@ResponseBody
@RequestMapping("/photo2")
public byte[] testphoto() throws IOException {
    InputStream in = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/images/no_image.jpg");
    return IOUtils.toByteArray(in);
}

Answer 1

It's work for me in Spring 4.

@RequestMapping(value = "/image/{id}", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void findImage(@PathVariable("id") String id, HttpServletResponse resp){

        final Foto anafoto = <find object>
        resp.reset();
        resp.setContentType(MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG_VALUE);
        resp.setContentLength(anafoto.getImage().length);

        final BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new ByteArrayInputStream(anafoto.getImageInBytes()));

        try {
            FileCopyUtils.copy(in, resp.getOutputStream());
            resp.flushBuffer();
        } catch (final IOException e) {
            // TODO Auto-generated catch block
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

}

Answer 2

By using Spring 3.1.x and 3.2.x, this is how you should do it:

The controller method:

@RequestMapping("/photo2")
public @ResponseBody byte[] testphoto() throws IOException {
    InputStream in = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/images/no_image.jpg");
    return IOUtils.toByteArray(in);
}

And the mvc annotation in servlet-context.xml file:

<mvc:annotation-driven>
    <mvc:message-converters>
        <bean class="org.springframework.http.converter.ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter">
            <property name="supportedMediaTypes">
                <list>
                    <value>image/jpeg</value>
                    <value>image/png</value>
                </list>
            </property>
        </bean>
    </mvc:message-converters>
</mvc:annotation-driven>

Answer 3

I prefere this one:

private ResourceLoader resourceLoader = new DefaultResourceLoader();

@ResponseBody
@RequestMapping(value = "/{id}",  produces = "image/bmp")
public Resource texture(@PathVariable("id") String id) {
    return resourceLoader.getResource("classpath:images/" + id + ".bmp");
}

Change the media type to what ever image format you have.

Answer 4

I think you maybe need a service to store file upload and get that file. Check more detail from here

1) Create a Storage Sevice

@Service
public class StorageService {

Logger log = LoggerFactory.getLogger(this.getClass().getName());
private final Path rootLocation = Paths.get("upload-dir");

public void store(MultipartFile file) {
    try {
        Files.copy(file.getInputStream(), this.rootLocation.resolve(file.getOriginalFilename()));
    } catch (Exception e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("FAIL!");
    }
}

public Resource loadFile(String filename) {
    try {
        Path file = rootLocation.resolve(filename);
        Resource resource = new UrlResource(file.toUri());
        if (resource.exists() || resource.isReadable()) {
            return resource;
        } else {
            throw new RuntimeException("FAIL!");
        }
    } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("FAIL!");
    }
}

public void deleteAll() {
    FileSystemUtils.deleteRecursively(rootLocation.toFile());
}

public void init() {
    try {
        Files.createDirectory(rootLocation);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException("Could not initialize storage!");
    }
}
}

2) Create Rest Controller to upload and get file

@Controller
public class UploadController {

@Autowired
StorageService storageService;

List<String> files = new ArrayList<String>();

@PostMapping("/post")
public ResponseEntity<String> handleFileUpload(@RequestParam("file") MultipartFile file) {
    String message = "";
    try {
        storageService.store(file);
        files.add(file.getOriginalFilename());

        message = "You successfully uploaded " + file.getOriginalFilename() + "!";
        return ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.OK).body(message);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        message = "FAIL to upload " + file.getOriginalFilename() + "!";
        return      ResponseEntity.status(HttpStatus.EXPECTATION_FAILED).body(message);
    }
}

@GetMapping("/getallfiles")
public ResponseEntity<List<String>> getListFiles(Model model) {
    List<String> fileNames = files
            .stream().map(fileName -> MvcUriComponentsBuilder
                    .fromMethodName(UploadController.class, "getFile", fileName).build().toString())
            .collect(Collectors.toList());

    return ResponseEntity.ok().body(fileNames);
}

@GetMapping("/files/{filename:.+}")
@ResponseBody
public ResponseEntity<Resource> getFile(@PathVariable String filename) {
    Resource file = storageService.loadFile(filename);
    return ResponseEntity.ok()
            .header(HttpHeaders.CONTENT_DISPOSITION, "attachment; filename=\"" + file.getFilename() + "\"")
            .body(file);
}

}

Answer 5

In addition to a couple of answers here a few pointers (Spring 4.1).

Incase you don't have any messageconverters configured in your WebMvcConfig, having ResponseEntity inside your @ResponseBody works well.

If you do, i.e. you have a MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter configured (like me) using the ResponseEntity returns a org.springframework.http.converter.HttpMessageNotWritableException.

The only working solution in this case is to wrap a byte[] in the @ResponseBody as follows:

@RequestMapping(value = "/get/image/{id}", method=RequestMethod.GET, produces = MediaType.IMAGE_PNG_VALUE)
public @ResponseBody byte[] showImageOnId(@PathVariable("id") String id) {
    byte[] b = whatEverMethodUsedToObtainBytes(id);
    return b;
}

In this case do rememeber to configure the messageconverters properly (and add a ByteArrayHttpMessageConverer) in your WebMvcConfig, like so:

@Override
public void configureMessageConverters(List<HttpMessageConverter<?>> converters) {
    converters.add(mappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter());
    converters.add(byteArrayHttpMessageConverter());
}

@Bean
public MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter mappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter() {
    ObjectMapper objectMapper = new ObjectMapper();
    objectMapper.disable(SerializationFeature.WRITE_DATES_AS_TIMESTAMPS);
    objectMapper.setSerializationInclusion(JsonInclude.Include.NON_NULL);
    MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter converter = new MappingJackson2HttpMessageConverter();
    converter.setObjectMapper(objectMapper);
    return converter;
}

@Bean
public ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter byteArrayHttpMessageConverter() {
    ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter arrayHttpMessageConverter = new ByteArrayHttpMessageConverter();
    arrayHttpMessageConverter.setSupportedMediaTypes(getSupportedMediaTypes());
    return arrayHttpMessageConverter;
}

private List<MediaType> getSupportedMediaTypes() {
    List<MediaType> list = new ArrayList<MediaType>();
    list.add(MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG);
    list.add(MediaType.IMAGE_PNG);
    list.add(MediaType.APPLICATION_OCTET_STREAM);
    return list;
}

Answer 6

You should specify the media type in the response. I'm using a @GetMapping annotation with produces = MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG_VALUE. @RequestMapping will work the same.

@GetMapping(value="/current/chart",produces = MediaType.IMAGE_JPEG_VALUE)
@ResponseBody
public byte[] getChart() {
    return ...;
}

Without a media type, it is hard to guess what is actually returned (includes anybody who reads the code, browser and of course Spring itself). A byte[] is just not specific. The only way to determine the media type from a byte[] is sniffing and guessing around.

Providing a media type is just best practice