Hi,

I am using HttpClient 3.0.1 and sending a java object as a byte[].

Client Side:
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// sending a java object as
HttpClient hc = new HttpClient();
HttpState hs = new HttpState();
hc.setState(initialState);

PostMethod pm = new PostMethod(url);
// serializedJavaObj as a byte[]
pm.setRequestEntity(new ByteArrayRequestEntity(serializedJavaObj));
hc.executeMethod(pm);

Server Side (Servlet):
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int len = httpRequest.getContentLength();
InputStream is = httpRequest.getInputStream();
byte[] b = new byte[len] ;
// read the entire content in one shot
is.read(b);

// construct the java object from the byte[]
deserialize(b) ;

If the request content length is big around 25K then a
java.io.StreamCorruptedException is thrown during deserialization. This
only happens when the content length is big.

If the stream is read using the code below then it works fine even for
huge content length.
InputStream is = httpRequest.getInputStream();
ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
while ((read = bis.read(buffer)) != -1) {
  baos.write(buffer, 0, read);
}
deserialize(baos.toByteArray());

Can someone please explain the problem and is there a better way do
this?

Thanks in advance.



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