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JSP's Applet has to pass an Buffered Image to Servlet to upload on web server

Asked by: esko_user

Hi,

I have a JSP that invokes an applet. This applet creates an Buffered Image, I need to pass this buffered image to a servlet that is hosted on the same web server as the JSP, this servlet is supposed to create a file from the BufferedImage and then upload to a location on the same web server. I am facing a problem in the communication between the Applet and Servlet.  The servlet is not even getting called..!!

Could you please tell me what I am missing, following is the code snippets that I am using


JSP:
 
<body>
<applet code="Applet.class" archive="Applet.jar"width="300" height="300"/>
</body>
 
Applet:
 
 public void sendBufferedImage(String urlpath, BufferedImage image) {
        try {
            System.out.println("Sending the image data");
            URL url = new URL(urlpath);
            URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
            conn.setDoOutput(true);
            OutputStream out = conn.getOutputStream();
            ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", out);
            out.close();
            System.out.println("Sent the data to " + url);
        } catch (IOException ex) {
           ex.getMessage();
        }
 
    }
 
Servlet:
 
 System.out.println("getting the image from applet");
            File filename = new File(getServletContext().getContextPath() + "test.jpg");
            FileOutputStream outy = new FileOutputStream(filename);
            InputStream in = request.getInputStream();
            byte[] buf = new byte[256];
            int nread = 0, total_read = 0;
 
            while (-1 != (nread = in.read(buf))) {
                total_read += nread;
                outy.write(buf, 0, nread);
            }
            System.out.println("bytes read " + total_read);
            out.close();

                                  
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Asked On
2009-07-07 at 02:50:00ID24548971
Topic

Java Server Pages (JSP)

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Answers

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-07 at 02:52:42ID: 24792752

1)  What is your "urlpath" set to?
2) Does the servlet get called if you load the servlet URL into the browser (it will then crash, but you should see it getting called)

 

by: objectsPosted on 2009-07-07 at 02:54:40ID: 24792759

any errors in the java console of the applet?
what url are you using to load the page, and to post the image?

 

by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:10:07ID: 24792818

"http://localhost:6080/WebApplet/DocumentUpload" is the URL that hosts the web application which contains the JSP and the servlet, the applet is a separate jar file that I am using in the JSP

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:15:42ID: 24792848

Yeah...  But is that the URL that the applet is using when you call sendBufferedImage?

Can you print the URL out in that applet method and see what it is in the Java Console?

Also, does the servlet get fired when you load that URL in your browser?

 

by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:29:57ID: 24792915

Yes, this is the URL I am using, and when I am using the same path in the browser, the servlet does get fired.. but does nothing

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:35:30ID: 24792940

Any output in the Java Console window?

 

by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:40:15ID: 24792957

Java Console that I launch with the applet shows the following message among others ... No Error Messages though

Sending the image data
network: Connecting http://localhost:6080/WebApplet/DocumentUpload with proxy=DIRECT
Sent the data to http://localhost:6080/WebApplet/DocumentUpload

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:47:48ID: 24792983

And the servlet code is in a doGet block yeah?

And you are running the browser on the same machine as the webapp (tomcat?) is running?

 

by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:49:54ID: 24792994

The Servlet code is in doPost block

and the Yes the browser is run on the same machine as the  webapp(tomcat 6.1)

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:50:25ID: 24792996

Can you move the servlet code to the get block?

I believe the applet is doing a GET not a post

 

by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 03:53:43ID: 24793015

Yes I tried that too, but even this is not helping

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-07 at 04:02:14ID: 24793052

Can you try this in the applet (and set your Sevlet to doPost):

URL url = new URL( urlpath );
HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod("POST");
conn.setUseCaches(false);
conn.setDefaultUseCaches(false);
conn.setDoOutput(true);
conn.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/octet-stream");
urlConnection.connect();
OutputStream out = urlConnection.getOutputStream();
ImageIO.write( image, "jpg", out ) ;
out.flush();
out.close();
                                              
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by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 04:08:22ID: 24793092

what is the type "urlConnection" ?

 

by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 04:13:12ID: 24793113

Sorry ... its not working

 

by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 04:24:36ID: 24793162

Should I be sending this data back the to the JSP that invokes the applet and the use JSP to post it to the Servlet?

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-07 at 05:08:23ID: 24793412

What data?

I assume you have a jsp with an applet tag in it, and that applet is supposed to send an image?

Hmmm...

Try reading the inputStream from the URL connection in the applet...that may give you some clues as to the problem?

 

by: esko_userPosted on 2009-07-07 at 05:19:51ID: 24793478

Yes the Applet is supposed to send an image... and is within an applet tag in the jsp

The input to the URLConnection is BufferedImage  so, I am supposed to check the data before being written to the URLConnection and then after being written to the connection ..!!  if this does not make sense then I did not get your suggestion

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-07 at 05:41:20ID: 24793635

URLCOnnection is bi-directional, you cas specify to use both input and output, and read from an inputstream after you have sent the image to the servlet (to see if the servlet responded with anything)

And you post your current applet sendBufferedImage method?

I can't see why this isn't working if everything is as you say it is

ACTUALLY:

Maybe if instead of doing nothing with the exception in:

        } catch (IOException ex) {
           ex.getMessage();
        }

you could print the stack trace?

        } catch (IOException ex) {
           ex.printStackTrace()
        }

Then you will see the error you are getting

 

by: TimYatesPosted on 2009-07-09 at 06:49:40ID: 24813574

Did it give you the error?

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