How to return an Image to browser in rest API in JAVA?

Question

I want to an image while I hit an API like localhost:8080:/getImage/app/path={imagePath}

While I hit this API it will return me an Image.

Is this possible?

Actually, I have tried this but it is giving me an ERROR. Here is my code,

@GET
@Path("/app")
public BufferedImage getFullImage(@Context UriInfo info) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
    String objectKey = info.getQueryParameters().getFirst("path");

    return resizeImage(300, 300, objectKey);
}


public static BufferedImage resizeImage(int width, int height, String imagePath)
        throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
    BufferedImage bufferedImage = ImageIO.read(new URL(imagePath));
    final Graphics2D graphics2D = bufferedImage.createGraphics();
    graphics2D.setComposite(AlphaComposite.Src);
    // below three lines are for RenderingHints for better image quality at cost of
    // higher processing time
    graphics2D.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_INTERPOLATION, RenderingHints.VALUE_INTERPOLATION_BILINEAR);
    graphics2D.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_RENDERING, RenderingHints.VALUE_RENDER_QUALITY);
    graphics2D.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING, RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
    graphics2D.drawImage(bufferedImage, 0, 0, width, height, null);
    graphics2D.dispose();
    System.out.println(bufferedImage.getWidth());
    return bufferedImage;
}

My ERROR,

java.io.IOException: The image-based media type image/webp is not supported for writing

Is there any way to return an Image while hitting any URL in java?

Answer 1

i didn't test it due to i don't have the environment in this machine, but logically it should work like the following, read it as input stream and let your method returns @ResponseBody byte[]

@GET
@Path("/app")
public @ResponseBody byte[] getFullImage(@Context UriInfo info) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
    String objectKey = info.getQueryParameters().getFirst("path");

    BufferedImage image = resizeImage(300, 300, objectKey);
    ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", os);
    InputStream is = new ByteArrayInputStream(os.toByteArray());
    return IOUtils.toByteArray(is);
}

UPDATE depending on @Habooltak Ana suggestion there is no need to create an input stream, the code should be look like the following

@GET
@Path("/app")
public @ResponseBody byte[] getFullImage(@Context UriInfo info) throws
MalformedURLException, IOException {
    String objectKey = info.getQueryParameters().getFirst("path");

    BufferedImage image = resizeImage(300, 300, objectKey);
    ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
    ImageIO.write(image, "jpg", os);
    return os.toByteArray();
}