sending an image from client to server in socket

Question

i have this code that sends an text file from client and put it in server side how can I modify this code make it send an image file of type "png" instead of sending an text file .. how can i use bytes for this job

in the code it's copy the file content and put it into a string and then he wrote it again into a new string in the sever side the client file have more than one file and you will chose the text that you want to copy .

this is the server code

public static void main(String[] args){
    try{
        ServerSocket serverSocket = new ServerSocket(2012);
        System.out.print("Running");

        Socket socket= serverSocket.accept();
        System.out.println("Client connected");

        PrintWriter pw=new PrintWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(socket.getOutputStream()));
        BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));

        String dir = "C:\\Users\\alaqra senpai\\Desktop\\FTP";
        File f=new File(dir);
        File fl[]=f.listFiles();

        Arrays.sort(fl);

        int c=0;
        for(int i=0;i<fl.length;i++){
            if(fl[i].canRead() && (fl[i].toString().endsWith(".txt"))){
                c++;
            }
        }

        pw.println(" "+c+".txt file founde , listed A to z");

        for (int i=0;i<fl.length;i++){
            if((fl[i].toString().endsWith(".txt"))){
                pw.println(" "+(i) + " "+ fl[i].getName() + " " +fl[i].length()+"byte");
            }
        }
        pw.println("_");
        pw.flush();
        String tem=br.readLine();
        int temp=Integer.parseInt(tem);

        temp-=48;
        System.out.println("index " +temp);

        boolean files=false;

        int index=0;
        if(temp>=0 && temp<=fl.length){
            files=true;
            index=temp;
        }else{
            files=false;
        }
        if(files){
            try{
                File ff=new File(fl[index].getAbsolutePath());
                FileReader fr=new FileReader(ff);
                BufferedReader brf=new BufferedReader(fr);
                String s;
                while((s=brf.readLine())!=null){
                    pw.println(s);
                }
                pw.flush();
                if(brf.readLine()!=null){
                    System.out.println("File read succeful,closing socket");
                }

            }catch(IOException e ){
                System.err.println("error"+e);
            }
        }
        br.close();
        socket.close();
    }catch(IOException e){

    }
}

and this is the client code

    public static void main(String[] args){


    try {
        //declaration and initialization client socket
        Socket socket = new Socket(InetAddress.getByName("Localhost"), 2012);

        //read and write on socket
        PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(socket.getOutputStream());
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(socket.getInputStream()));

        //read from console
        BufferedReader bu = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));

        String s;

        while ((br.read()) != '_') {
            System.out.println(br.readLine());

        }

        System.out.println("enter file index no: ");
        out.println(bu.read());

        //force write buffer
        out.flush();

        //file receive process


            try {

                BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream("Recevie.png")));
                while ((s = br.readLine()) != null) {

                    bw.write(s);
                }
                //force write buffer to server
                bw.close();
                if (br.readLine() == null) {
                    System.out.println("File Write Successful,Socket closing");
                }

            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.out.println("Error" + e);
            }


    } catch (IOException ex) {
        Logger.getLogger(client.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, null, ex);
    }

}

Answer 1

Use FileInputStream and BufferedInputStream to as image is binary file. Check more on using streams here - http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-io/index.html, nicely explained java io.