why read a byte array of bmp and the width and height lost

Question

my server receives a byte array of bmp by uploading, and I read its width and height but get -1 . I try to simulate this uploading case with the code below:

public class ImageReader {

    private static URL imgUrl;

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        imgUrl = ImageReader.class.getResource("myimage.jpg");
        printWidthHeight(imgUrl, "jpg");
        imgUrl = ImageReader.class.getResource("flag.bmp");
        printWidthHeight(imgUrl, "bmp");
    }

    private static void printWidthHeight(URL imgUrl, String format) throws IOException {
        BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(imgUrl);
        System.out.println(image.getType());
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        boolean isAppropriate = ImageIO.write(image, format, baos);
        System.out.println(isAppropriate);
        byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();

        ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon(bytes);
        System.out.format( "%s, %s \n", imageIcon.getIconWidth(), imageIcon.getIconHeight());
    }
}

It prints:

5
true
171, 125 
5
true
-1, -1 

I found

• jpg still has width and height, but bmp doesn't

Does anyone know the reason?

Answer 1

From Java documentation, ImageIcon not support BMP format:

You can use this: Get Image Dimension and Image Size from Binary

Answer 2

Thanks for your hints. I found if I read those bytes with ImageIO , I can successfully get an image's width and height.

public class ImageReader {

    private static URL imgUrl;
    private static byte[] bytes;

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        imgUrl = ImageReader.class.getResource("myimage.jpg");
        bytes = getBytes(imgUrl, "jpg");
        printWidthHeight(bytes);
        imgUrl = ImageReader.class.getResource("flag.bmp");
        bytes = getBytes(imgUrl, "bmp");
        printWidthHeight(bytes);
    }

    private static void printWidthHeight(byte[] bytes) throws IOException {
        ImageIcon imageIcon = new ImageIcon(bytes);
        System.out.format( "%s, %s \n", imageIcon.getIconWidth(), imageIcon.getIconHeight());


        BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(new ByteArrayInputStream(bytes));
        ImageIcon imageIcon2 = new ImageIcon(image);
        System.out.format( "%s, %s \n", imageIcon2.getIconWidth(), imageIcon2.getIconHeight());
    }

    private static byte[] getBytes(URL imgUrl, String format) throws IOException {
        BufferedImage image = ImageIO.read(imgUrl);
        System.out.println(image.getType());
        ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
        boolean isAppropriate = ImageIO.write(image, format, baos);
        System.out.println(isAppropriate);
        byte[] bytes = baos.toByteArray();
        return bytes;
    }
}

output

5
true
171, 125 
171, 125 
5
true
-1, -1 
124, 124