Copy MemoryStream to FileStream and save the file?

Stan picture Stan · Sep 12, 2013 · Viewed 97.4k times · Source

I don't understand what I'm doing wrong here. I generate couple of memory streams and in debug-mode I see that they are populated. But when I try to copy MemoryStream to FileStream in order to save the file fileStream is not populated and file is 0bytes long (empty).

Here is my code

if (file.ContentLength > 0)
{
    var bytes = ImageUploader.FilestreamToBytes(file); // bytes is populated

    using (var inStream = new MemoryStream(bytes)) // inStream is populated
    {
        using (var outStream = new MemoryStream())
        {
            using (var imageFactory = new ImageFactory())
            {
                imageFactory.Load(inStream)
                            .Resize(new Size(320, 0))
                            .Format(ImageFormat.Jpeg)
                            .Quality(70)
                            .Save(outStream);
            }

            // outStream is populated here

            var fileName = "test.jpg";

            using (var fileStream = new FileStream(Server.MapPath("~/content/u/") + fileName, FileMode.CreateNew, FileAccess.ReadWrite))
            {
                outStream.CopyTo(fileStream); // fileStream is not populated
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer

SynerCoder picture SynerCoder · Sep 12, 2013

You need to reset the position of the stream before copying.

outStream.Position = 0;
outStream.CopyTo(fileStream);

You used the outStream when saving the file using the imageFactory. That function populated the outStream. While populating the outStream the position is set to the end of the populated area. That is so that when you keep on writing bytes to the steam, it doesn't override existing bytes. But then to read it (for copy purposes) you need to set the position to the start so you can start reading at the start.