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Android Can't Get Cached Image From File Path

We have a Cordova app. I am getting an Image passed to me which is saved in the cache.
I need to make a file from a string url:
File pictureFile = new File(fileURL)
However when I try to load that image file it keeps failing (file not found).
A sample of what I am passed is this:
file:///data/data/co.appname.app/cache/tfss-4cb94488-1843-4ad3-8d02-8802008c7186-1685720347.jpg
I have tried making the following urls and none work when I create a file
/data/data/co.appname.app/files/tfss-4cb94488-1843-4ad3-8d02-8802008c7186-1685720347.jpg
file:/data/data/co.appname.app/files/tfss-4cb94488-1843-4ad3-8d02-8802008c7186-1685720347.jpg
I also tried taking just the file name tfss-4cb94488-1843-4ad3-8d02-8802008c7186-1685720347.jpg and getting the cached directory directly and that didn't work either
String path = getFilesDir().getAbsolutePath() + tfss-4cb94488-1843-4ad3-8d02-8802008c7186-1685720347.jpg
That just ends up with /data/data/co.appname.app/files/tfss-4cb94488-1843-4ad3-8d02-8802008c7186-1685720347.jpg which still comes up null.
The image HAS to exist there though because we are uploading it to Twitter and Cordova is saving the image in the cache.
Can you advise what the issue might be?

I needed to call getCacheDir() not getFilesDir().

How to set up Eclipse project to load an image so that it also runs from the command line

I've built a Java application that loads an image at runtime. The location of the image is fixed relative to the project.
I would like to be able to run the program from both within Eclipse and the command line and for it to load the image correctly. However, I can only do one or the other but not both. This seems like such a trivial thing to want to do but I can't find out how to do it.
The project is set up so that it creates a bin directory for the output and puts the image in a resources sub-folder. This is fine when running from the command line as I can write my code to look in that sub folder for the file.
But when I run the program from within eclipse the current working directory is different.
What am I missing?
TIA
Update - adding some code
This is what I had originally:
BufferedImage awtImage = ImageIO.read(new File(System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/resources/image-name.png"));
Following the advice in the comments I am trying to use getResourceAsStream but I don't know what to pass to the File constructor.
InputStream temp = MyClass.class.getResourceAsStream("resources/image-name.png");
BufferedImage awtImage = ImageIO.read(new File(???));
The resource is being found because temp is not null.

I think there's 2 solutions.
1) you specify an absolute path
2) your image is in the classpath so you could load it via :
YouClass.class.getResourceAsStream("YourImg.png");

The working directory, if that's really what you mean, is not a great place to load an image from. It appears that you have an image that you would distribute with your finished program so that the program could use it. In that case, I suggest that you use Class.getResourceAsStream(), and put the image in the directory with (or near) that class.
EDIT:
Here is code I used in one of my programs for a similar purpose:
ImageIcon expandedIcon = null;
// ...
expandedIcon = new ImageIcon(TreeIcon.class.getResource("images/Expanded.png"));
The ImageIcon class is part of Swing; I don't know if you're using that, but this should serve to show you the idea. The getResource() method takes a URL; again, you might need something a little different. But this shows the pathname relative to the path of the class on which the method is called, so if TreeIcon is in x/y/z/icons, the PNG file needs to be in x/y/z/icons/images, wherever that is on that computer.
TreeIcon is a class of mine, and its internals will not help you, so I'm not posting them. All it's doing here is providing a location for the PNG file I'm loading into an ImageIcon instance.
In addition to working on a disk with a directory structure, this also works in a jar file (which is a common way to distribute a java program or library). The jar file is just a zip file, and each file in the jar/zip file has its directory associated with it, so the image can be in the jar in the correct directory just as the java classes are in their directories.
getResourceAsStream() returns a stream; if you want to use that byte stream to load as an image, find a class that converts an stream to something your image class can use as a constructor or in a load method and hook them up. This is a common thing to have to figure out with Java i/o, unfortunately there is no cookbook way to do it across all images and situations, so we can't just tell you what it is.
EDIT 2:
As from the comment, try:
ImageIO.read(new File(MyClass.class.getResource("resources/image-name.png");

I set up my Eclipse projects like this.
The input directory is added to the classpath (JavaBuildPath in Eclipse).
Finally, you access the image and / or text files like this.
private BufferedImage getIconImage() {
try {
return ImageIO.read(getClass().getResourceAsStream(
"/StockMarket.png"));
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
return null;
}
}

How do I access a .gif file in a package in the src folder?

I'm working on a Java program using Eclipse. Right now, I have an src folder that contains 2 packages: memory.views and memory.resources.
In the memory.views package, I have my Main.java file. In the memory.resources package, I have my .txt file and .gif file.
Within the program, I have no problem accessing (and manipulating) the .txt file by using the path /memory/resources/name.txt. However, when I do the same with the .gif file using the code below, I get no result:
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("/memory/resources/name.gif");
There's no error produced. The only effect is that I see no image when the program is running.
I've tried also writing the following, but none worked:
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("/resources/name.gif"); <br>
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("name.gif");
Now, just so nobody says that it's the .gif file's fault, I've actually entered in the full Finder path (I'm using a Mac) and that worked perfectly:
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon("/Users/[...]/src/memory/resources/name.gif");
However, I don't want to do the full path, because if I export the program and run it on another computer, then the non-programming computer won't display the image either.
So, right now, I don't even know what the problem is. The .gif file works sometimes, but not when it's accessed via the same path as the .txt file, which works all the time. I tried looking here (Cannot access resource by using the getResources() method), but it seems like he had a slightly different problem from me.

You can use
URL url = ClassLoader.getSystemResource("name.gif");
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(url);
provided that your name.gif file ends up in classpath after compilation/build.

What is this ImageIcon class? Is it your own code?
Try Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/memory/resources/name.gif");

See if this works...
File file = new File("/memory/resources/name.gif");
ImageIcon icon = new ImageIcon(file.getAbsolutePath());

Struts2: How to store images outside of the webapp and save its path to the db?

Until now I did saving image into the webapp directory and its path into database.
But now am trying to save the image outside of the webapp so that if I deploy my new war files then my old files folder will not be deleted.
From my below code my image file is correctly saving into the specified folder outside of the webapp but i don't know how to retrieve that image into my jsp page.
I tried like this
<img src="www.myproject.com/struts2project/files/smile.jpg/>"
but this is wrong. I am not getting my image to be display into my jsp page.
Below code is working fine for uploading image into absolute path but my problem is how to retrieve that image?
`fileSystemPath= "/files";
try{
File destFile = new File(fileSystemPath, thempicFileName);
FileUtils.copyFile(thempic, destFile);
String path=fileSystemPath+"/"+thempicFileName;
theme=dao.getThemeById(themId);
theme.setThemeScreenshot(path);
theme.setThemeName(theme.getThemeName());
theme.setThemeCaption(theme.getThemeCaption());
dao.saveOrUpdateTheme(theme);
}catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
return INPUT;
}`
Kindly help me...
I hope I'm being clear on what I need, let me know if I am not and I'll try to explain in another way.

As you say . . . this question describes what you need to do. I guess what you need to know is how to best achieve this with struts 2. Here's what's going on.
In your tag:
That url is being routed to your struts 2 application. Correct? The context is "struts2project".
One of the solutions offered by the referenced question is to use Tomcat's ability to serve static requests and configure tomcat to know about this other document root that holds your images. I think this is a great solution.
If you want to keep it inside of struts2, I think you're best option is to use a dedicated "image streaming from that other place" action that get's an InputStream to the image, then uses the Struts2 Stream Result result type. That result type lets you specify an adhoc InputStream. It also helps you set the appropriate headers. Note, the header values on that documentation page are for downloading the file, so you don't want those values. They would force the browser to open a save as dialog for the image, I think.

You are already using absolute paths, just use a location outside of your web application:
String destinationDir = "/path/to/my/directory/";
File file = new File(destinationDir + item.getName());

What is the correct path for Toolkit.getImage()?

I need to upload an image file and generate a thumbnail for the uploaded file in my JSF webapplication. The original image is stored on the server in /home/myname/tomcat/webapps/uploads, while the thumbnail is stored in /home/myname/tomcat/webapps/uploads/thumbs. I'm using the thumbnail generator class I copied from philreeve.com.
I have successfully uploaded the file with help from BalusC. But using Toolkit.getImage(), I can't access the image.
I used the uploaded file's absolute path, like so:
inFilename = file.getAbsolutePath();
The relevant code from the thumbnail generator is:
public static String createThumbnail(String inFilename, String outFilename, int largestDimension) {
...
Image inImage = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(inFilename);
if (inImage.getWidth(null) == -1 || inImage.getHeight(null) == -1) {
return "Error loading file: \"" + new File(inFilename).getAbsolutePath() + "\"";
}
...
}
Since I am already using the absolute path, I don't understand why it is not working. I have also used the following values for inFilename, but I always get the "Error loading file...".
/home/myname/tomcat/webapps/uploads/filename.ext
/uploads/filename.ext
But I did check the directory, and the image is there. (I uploaded using /home/myname/tomcat/webapps/uploads/filename.ext, and it works.) What is the correct path for the image in that directory? Thank you.
Update
I got the code to work by using:
Image inImage = ImageIO.read(new File(inFilename));
I still don't understand why Toolkit.getImage() does not work though.

Are you sure it's a JPEG file? Use an image viewer to make sure nothing bad happened to the file during upload (or that it was an image to begin with).
Also, use new File(inFilename).exists() to make sure the path is correct. I also suggest to print new File(inFilename).getAbsolutePath() in error messages because relative paths can hurt you.
That said, the rest of the code looks correct.

The problem is that Toolkit.getImage() does not return the image immediately. The issue is well-described in this bug report, a relevant extract of which is here:
This is not a bug. The submitter is not properly using the asynchronous
Image API correctly. He assumes that getImage loads all of the image's bits
into memory. However, it is well documented that the actual loading of
bits does not take place until a call to Component.prepareImage or
Graphics.drawImage. In addition, these two functions return before the
Image is fully loaded. Developers are required to install an ImageObserver
to listen for notification that the Image has been fully loaded. Once they
receive this notification, they can repaint the Image.
I found that the answer to this question works well:
Image image = new ImageIcon(this.getClass().getResource("/images/bell-icon16.png")).getImage();