Reading an Image from Local drive and store to ByteArray

[pavan aryan]

I am working on a WebService that returns a Image from Server to Client. I followed different examples, and built a service that will reads a file from a URL and writes to a Byte Array.

URL url = new URL("http://www.myimage.ro/MyImage_FP.jpg");

            byte[] imgByte=getBytes(url);

Now i am looking for a way to read a file from local drive to ByteArray..i tried URL("c:\newimage.png") its not working..tried many ways from File to FileInputStream and BufferedInputStream to convert to bye array..nothing is working. Rest of code works only on ByteArray..i have to figure out a way to store an image from local directory to ByteArray....Please help Friends.

Thanks,
Kumar.

[Ulf Dittmer]

Please read and follow ItDoesntWorkIsUseless and TellTheDetails.

[Sebastian Janisch]

If it's local, why URL ?

Check out File, InputStream and FileInputStream.