How to download large data file by java code where data is fetching in chunks?

Question

I need to have my bulk data into a file. When I tried to write the data to a file in on shot, sometimes I get OutOfMemoryException in my java code. To handle this case I am trying to write different code where I need to open file once and write the data to file in chunk so that my heap memory does not grow. So I am looking for the best approach for this case. My source data will be a rest service's response data . and I will write that data to the destination file.

Please suggest me a best approach to write data into a file...

I am trying to handle this case by following logic...

• Open the output file as BufferOutputStream
• Get the response from the rest get request
• Convert that response into byte[]
• Write the byte[] to file by buffOut.write(arr, 0, available);
• Flush the fileBufferObject buffOut.flush();
• And so on till we have data to write in file.

Answer 1

Java Streams looks very suitable option after taking your use case in consideration. Processing file is based on Java streams yield better results as compared to file scanner , Buffered Reader or Java NIO using memory mapped files .

Here is performance comparison of processing ability of various Java Alternatives:

File Size :- 1 GB

1. Sanner approach: Total elapsed time: 15627 ms

2. Maped Byte Buffer: Exception in thread “main” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space

3. Java 8 Stream: Total elapsed time: 3124 ms

4. Java 7 Files: Total elapsed time: 13657 ms

Sample Processing Example is as below:

 package com.large.file;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import java.nio.file.Files;
import java.nio.file.Path;
import java.nio.file.Paths;
import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
import java.util.stream.Stream;

public class Java8StreamRead {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

        long startTime = System.nanoTime();
        Path file = Paths.get("c:/temp/my-large-file.csv");
        try
        {
            //Java 8: Stream class
            Stream<String> lines = Files.lines( file, StandardCharsets.UTF_8 );

            for( String line : (Iterable<String>) lines::iterator )
            {
               //System.out.println(line);
            }

        } catch (IOException ioe){
            ioe.printStackTrace();
        }

        long endTime = System.nanoTime();
        long elapsedTimeInMillis = TimeUnit.MILLISECONDS.convert((endTime - startTime), TimeUnit.NANOSECONDS);
        System.out.println("Total elapsed time: " + elapsedTimeInMillis + " ms");
    }
}

Answer 2

Try the following:

URL url = new URL("http://large.file.dat");
Path path = Paths.get("/home/it/documents/large.file.dat");
Files.copy(url.openStream(), path);

Chunked should not matter, unless you want to work with parts of a file, when the connection is likely to fail after a time.

You can use compression sending headers and wrapping the InputStream in a GzippedInputStream. Or use apache's HttpClient with out-of-the-box support.