Today, I only have a little code snippet to take a URL with an image and transform it in a byte array in Java 8, the image, not the URL. It is something very simple, but sometimes, it is very useful to have this kind of snippets in a place where we can find it easily.

package com.wordpress.binarycoders.image.recovery;
 
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.URL;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.logging.Level;
import java.util.logging.Logger;
 
public class ImageRecover {
     
    public byte[] recoverImageFromUrl(String urlText) throws Exception {
        URL url = new URL(urlText);
        ByteArrayOutputStream output = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         
        try (InputStream inputStream = url.openStream()) {
            int n = 0;
            byte [] buffer = new byte[ 1024 ];
            while (-1 != (n = inputStream.read(buffer))) {
                output.write(buffer, 0, n);
            }
        }
     
        return output.toByteArray();
    }
}

See you.