In GWT how do I display an image from the appengine server side blobstore given the string version of the key?
I think I have stored an image as a blob on the appengine. can someone tell me if it's correct?
try
{
FileService fileService = FileServiceFactory.getFileService();
AppEngineFile file = fileService.createNewBlobFile(content_type, fileName);
boolean lock = true;
FileWriteChannel writeChannel = fileService.openWriteChannel(file, lock);
byte[] b1 = new byte[BUFFER_SIZE];
int readBytes1;
while ((readBytes1 = is.read(b1)) != -1)
{
writeChannel.write(ByteBuffer.wrap(b1, 0, readBytes1));
}
writeChannel.closeFinally();
item_image_blob_key = fileService.getBlobKey(file).getKeyString();
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getLocalizedMessage());
e.printStackTrace(response.getWriter());
}
I sent the key back to the client and I am trying to present the image. I tried using :
ImagesService imagesService = ImagesServiceFactory
.getImagesService();
// Get the image serving URL
String imageUrl = imagesService.getServingUrl(blobKey);
but it is deprecated so I tried:
ImagesService imagesService = ImagesServiceFactory.getImagesService();
ServingUrlOptions suo = ServingUrlOptions.Builder.withBlobKey(blobKey);
String image_url = imagesService.getServingUrl(suo);
item.setProperty("image_url", image_url);
Now I get a URL which looks like this:
http://0.0.0.0:8888/_ah/img/5nXYgHwfiMmblDFldDXSew
and get create an image on the client thus:
String image_url = result.get_image_url();
System.out.println("image url is: " + image_url);
Image image = new Image();
image.setUrl(image_url);
RootPanel.get("dynamicDate").add(image);
Only a default image icon appears on the UI
so I created a servlet which accesses the blobstore thus:
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest; import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import com.google.appengine.api.blobstore.BlobKey; import com.google.appengine.api.blobstore.BlobstoreService; import com.google.appengine.api.blobstore.BlobstoreServiceFactory;
public class ImageServlet extends HttpServlet { private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
@Override public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws IOException { String blob_key = req.getParameter("blob-key");
if (blob_key != null)
{
BlobKey blobKey = new BlobKey(blob_key);
BlobstoreService blobstoreService = BlobstoreServiceFactory.getBlobstoreService();
blobstoreService.serve(blobKey, res);
}
else
{
res.sendError(400, "One or more parameters are not set");
}
} }
and a client http request:
RequestBuilder requestBuilder = new RequestBuilder(RequestBuilder.GET, "/itemmanager/image");
try
{
Request request = requestBuilder.sendRequest(null, new RequestCallback() {
public void onError(Request request, Throwable exception)
{
System.out.println(exception.getMessage());
}
public void onResponseReceived(Request request, Response response)
{
System.out.println("so far so good");
System.out.println(response.getHeadersAsString());
if (200 == response.getStatusCode())
{
}
else
{
// Handle the error. Can get the status text from response.getStatusText()
}
}
});
} catch (RequestException e) {
// Couldn't connect to server
}
I seem to be getting text how do i get an input stream or something i can get an image with?