Possible to determine size of file to be downloaded?

Question

I currently have the following code which reads a file located on the web and writes it to a file on the phone:

InputStream inputStream = new URL(sourceFileWebAddress).openStream();
BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream);
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);

int count;
byte buffer[] = new byte[1024];

while ((count = bufferedInputStream.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) != -1)
  fileOutputStream.write(buffer, 0, count);

Does anyone know whether it is possible (using the setup above or otherwise) to determine the total number of bytes which are to be read before commencing with the download (in order to publish percentage progress to the user as the download proceeds)?

Answer 1

use the getContentLength method of URLConnection

URL url = new URL(sourceFileWebAddress);
URLConnection connection = url.openConnection();
connection.connect();

int fileLenth = connection.getContentLength();

InputStream inputStream = url.openStream();
BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream);

Answer 2

TO determine the total number of bytes which are to be read before commencing with the download, one way is to only get the response headers by sending a HTTP HEAD request as follows:

import java.io.IOException;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.ProtocolException;
import java.net.URL;

public class SimpleHTTPRequest {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
      HttpURLConnection connection = null;
      URL serverAddress = null;

      try {
          String sourceFileWebAddress = "http://localhost:8080/mycontents";
          serverAddress = new URL(sourceFileWebAddress);
          //set up out communications stuff
          connection = null;

          //Set up the initial connection
          connection = (HttpURLConnection)serverAddress.openConnection();

          //HEAD request will make sure that the contents are not downloaded.
          connection.setRequestMethod("HEAD");  

          connection.connect();
          System.out.println("========"+connection.getContentLength());

      } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (ProtocolException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      } catch (IOException e) {
          e.printStackTrace();
      }
      finally
      {
          //close the connection, set all objects to null
          connection.disconnect();

          connection = null;
      }
  }
}

This will print the size of the content to be downloaded without actually downloading the contents.

Answer 3

try this out using URLConnnection

URLConnection connection = new URL(sourceFileWebAddress).openConnection();
InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();

System.out.println("total size: "+connection.getContentLength();//size

BufferedInputStream bufferedInputStream = new BufferedInputStream(inputStream);
FileOutputStream fileOutputStream = new FileOutputStream(targetFile);

int count;
byte buffer[] = new byte[1024];

while ((count = bufferedInputStream.read(buffer, 0, buffer.length)) != -1)
  fileOutputStream.write(buffer, 0, count);