[Java mapscript] int imageObj.getSize() does not work

[Umberto Nicoletti]

Please file a bug at:

http://trac.osgeo.org/mapserver

Best regards,
Umberto

On Dec 18, 2007 12:07 AM, rich.fromm <nospam420 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> if i have a valid image in an imageObj object:
> - int imageObj.getWidth() returns the expected value
> - int imageObj.getHeight() returns the expected value
> - void imageObj.save(String, null) successfully writes the image to a file
> - byte[] imageObj.getBytes() successfully returns a byte array (whose length
>   matches the size of the file above), containing the proper contents of the
>   image (i can subsequently dump it to a file and verify).
> however:
> - int imageObj.getSize() always returns 0
>
> this turns out to not be a big deal.  at first i thought i would have to
> query
> the size with getSize(), then allocate a byte[] of the appropriate size,
> then
> populate the byte[] with getBytes().
>
> however, it is sufficient to just write code like:
>
>   byte[] bytes = img.getBytes();
>
> if img is the imageObj containing the image.  it's not necessary to directly
> query the size, and if i really want to know it, bytes.length will return
> the
> proper value.
>
> nevertheless, if i'm properly guessing the intention of imageObj.getSize()
> [maybe i'm wrong], this seems like a bug to me.
>
> i do notice the following in mapscript/doc/mapscript.txt within the
> mapserver-5.0.0 distribution:
>
> --- begin ---
> imageObj Attributes
> -------------------
>
> <...>
>
> size : int
>     I don't see where this is used.  Anyone?  --SG
>
> <...>
>
> imageObj Methods
> ----------------
>
> [getSize() is not listed here]
> --- end ---
>
> so maybe it's just deprecated.
>
> - rich
>
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