Thread: How to show an image data stored in database in jsf?

Hi,
Pls help me out on showing an image stored as blob data type in the db and i am retriving it and keeping it as inputstream,writing it to outpout stream but cann't display the output stream object in the jsf.

Below is the code that i have written. Advise me if anything wrong with code.
//method name in the bean
public void showImageFrmLocal()
InputStream fileInputStream = null;
//here it get the image from db as fileInputStream
fileInputStream = files.get(i).getFilesInputStream();
fileInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(files.get(i).getFilesInputStre am());
for (int length = 0; (length = fileInputStream.read(byteArray)) > 0 {
//output.write(byteArray, 0, length);
response.getOutputStream().write(byteArray, 0, length);
}
fileInputStream.close();
}
response.getOutputStream().close();
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().responseComplete ();
FacesContext.getCurrentInstance().renderResponse() ;

And the jsf is

<h:commandLink id="imagId1" value="View Image" style="position: relative;"
actionListener="#{Bean.showImageFrmLocal}">
</h:commandLink>

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but cann't display the output stream object in the jsf.

Why not? What is the problem? Is there an error message? Do you get different results than expected?

Advise me if anything wrong with code.

Does it compile, run, and produce the desired results? What is it supposed to do? Does it do that?




I think there should be some safety feature guarding the stream. What will happen if you lose connection in the middle of the stream? (A predictable and likely scenario)

Thanks for ur reply...

I am getting the warnings as:WARNING: JSF1095: The response was already committed by the time we tried to set the outgoing cookie for the flash. Any values stored to the flash will not be available on the next request.

I changed my method a little bit that is,Writing the input stream object to StreamContent object defined in the primefaces and sending back to the jsf by using h:graphicImage tag..help me on this