How to download large sized Files (size > 50MB) in java

Raguram picture Raguram · Jul 30, 2014 · Viewed 14.4k times · Source

I'm downloading files from a remote location, and the download is complete for smaller sized files and in-complete for large sized files (>10 MB). Here is my code that i have used for downloading files from remote server .

    File dstFile = null;
    // check the directory for existence.
    String dstFolder = LOCAL_FILE.substring(0,LOCAL_FILE.lastIndexOf(File.separator));
    if(!(dstFolder.endsWith(File.separator) || dstFolder.endsWith("/")))
        dstFolder += File.separator;

    // Creates the destination folder if doesn't not exists
    dstFile = new File(dstFolder);
    if (!dstFile.exists()) {
        dstFile.mkdirs();
    }
    try {
        URL url = new URL(URL_LOCATION);
        HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection(); 
        connection.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/4.76"); 
        //URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
        BufferedInputStream stream = new BufferedInputStream(connection.getInputStream());
        int available = stream.available();
        byte b[]= new byte[available];
        stream.read(b);
        File file = new File(LOCAL_FILE);
        OutputStream out  = new FileOutputStream(file);
        out.write(b);
    } catch (Exception e) {
        System.err.println(e);
        VeBLogger.getInstance().log( e.getMessage());
    }

Answer

Rakesh Sharma picture Rakesh Sharma · Jul 30, 2014

Firstly, I'd suggest you use:

FileInputStream in = new FileInputStream(file);  

instead of:

BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(new FileInputStream(file));

(To avoid building up memory usage)

try
{
    FileInputStream fileInputStream  = new FileInputStream(file);
    byte[] buf=new byte[8192];
    int bytesread = 0, bytesBuffered = 0;
    while( (bytesread = fileInputStream.read( buf )) > -1 ) {
        out.write( buf, 0, bytesread );
        bytesBuffered += bytesread;
        if (bytesBuffered > 1024 * 1024) { //flush after 1MB
            bytesBuffered = 0;
            out.flush();
        }
    }
}
finally {
    if (out != null) {
        out.flush();
    }
}