When we use Ajax then we can only get Text/XML response using the url.
With the help of the below procedure we can also get the image using ajax.
The Client side programming is something like:
<html> <head> <script> function createGraphs(){ var xmlhttp; if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {// code for IE7+, Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Safari xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest(); } else {// code for IE6, IE5 xmlhttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } xmlhttp.onreadystatechange=function() { if (xmlhttp.readyState==4 && xmlhttp.status==200) { var imageResponse = xmlhttp.responseText; changeImage(imageResponse); } } xmlhttp.open("POST","GetImageResponse.do",true); xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"); xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Content-length", params.length); xmlhttp.setRequestHeader("Connection", "close"); xmlhttp.send(params); xmlhttp.send(); } function changeImage(type,imageResponse){ document.getElementById("graph").src = "data:image/png;base64,"+imageResponse; } </script> </head> <body> <img alt = "graph" id = "graph" name="linechart" src="" /> <input type="button" value="get Image" onclick="createGraphs()"/> </body> </html>
On click of the button a ajax response is sent to the server & receives text type response which is added to the source of the image tag as
document.getElementById("graph").src = "data:image/png;base64,"+imageResponse;
The Server side programming is something like:
//Struts Action Method public ActionForward execute (final ActionMapping mapping, final ActionForm form, final HttpServletRequest request, final HttpServletResponse response) throws Exception { final byte[] chartbytes = this.getBytesFromFile (new File ("C:/Image.png")); final BufferedInputStream buf = null; ServletOutputStream myOut = null; try { myOut = response.getOutputStream (); // set response headers response.setContentType ("application/png"); final String filename = "graph.png"; (response).addHeader ("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + filename); response.setContentLength (chartbytes.length); myOut.write (chartbytes); } catch (final IOException e) { System.err.println ("Exception::" + e.getMessage ()); } finally { if (myOut != null) { myOut.close (); } if (buf != null) { buf.close (); } } return null; } // Returns the contents of the file in a byte array. public byte[] getBytesFromFile (final File file) throws IOException { final InputStream is = new FileInputStream (file); // Get the size of the file final long length = file.length (); // You cannot create an array using a long type. // It needs to be an int type. // Before converting to an int type, check // to ensure that file is not larger than Integer.MAX_VALUE. if (length > Integer.MAX_VALUE) { // File is too large } // Create the byte array to hold the data final byte[] bytes = new byte[(int) length]; // Read in the bytes int offset = 0; int numRead = 0; while ((offset < bytes.length) && ((numRead = is.read (bytes, offset, bytes.length - offset)) >= 0)) { offset += numRead; } // Ensure all the bytes have been read in if (offset < bytes.length) { throw new IOException ("Could not completely read file " + file.getName ()); } // Close the input stream and return bytes is.close (); return bytes; }
So, in this way one can transfer the images to client side using ajax
