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Created October 11, 2011 00:27
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Encode a file to base64 binary in Java
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
private String encodeFileToBase64Binary(String fileName)
throws IOException {
File file = new File(fileName);
byte[] bytes = loadFile(file);
byte[] encoded = Base64.encodeBase64(bytes);
String encodedString = new String(encoded);
return encodedString;
}
private static byte[] loadFile(File file) throws IOException {
InputStream is = new FileInputStream(file);
long length = file.length();
if (length > Integer.MAX_VALUE) {
// File is too large
}
byte[] bytes = new byte[(int)length];
int offset = 0;
int numRead = 0;
while (offset < bytes.length
&& (numRead=is.read(bytes, offset, bytes.length-offset)) >= 0) {
offset += numRead;
}
if (offset < bytes.length) {
throw new IOException("Could not completely read file "+file.getName());
}
is.close();
return bytes;
}
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Guys cmon this was posted 10 years ago...

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