cannot find symbol using BufferedReader.read()

[mrs_sheep]

I am reading out of a web page using BufferedReder.read(byte [], int, int) but whatever I enter as byte [] I am told it is "cannot find symbol"

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    conn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));

            byte [] RawData = new byte[conn.getContentLength()];
            int offset = 0;
            int numRead = 0;
            while (offset < RawData.length &&
                    (numRead = reader.read(
                    RawData, offset, RawData.length-offset)) >= 0) {
                offset += numRead; 
            }
            if (offset < RawData.length) {
                System.err.println("couldn't complete reading MPEG 3-Layer object");
            }

Codesample by Reading a File into a Byte Array | Example Depot

Any ideas? thx .. =D

[JosAH]

I am reading out of a web page using BufferedReder.read(byte [], int, int) but whatever I enter as byte [] I am told it is "cannot find symbol"

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(
                    conn.getInputStream(), "UTF-8"));

            byte [] RawData = new byte[conn.getContentLength()];
            int offset = 0;
            int numRead = 0;
            while (offset < RawData.length &&
                    (numRead = reader.read(
                    RawData, offset, RawData.length-offset)) >= 0) {
                offset += numRead; 
            }
            if (offset < RawData.length) {
                System.err.println("couldn't complete reading MPEG 3-Layer object");
            }

Codesample by Reading a File into a Byte Array | Example Depot

Any ideas? thx .. =D

Readers read chars while InputStreams read bytes.

kind regards,

Jos

[mrs_sheep]

thx a lot now it works ...
just one more question, why does the error code appear on the "RawData" and not on the ".read(" ? The error even told me that needed parameters were byte [], int, int ?

[JosAH]

thx a lot now it works ...
just one more question, why does the error code appear on the "RawData" and not on the ".read(" ? The error even told me that needed parameters were byte [], int, int ?

I bet your compiler said something like "read(char[], int, int) can not be applied to the arguments byte[], int, int" while it points you to the start of your argument list (the RawData identifier).

kind regards,

Jos

[mrs_sheep]

No I'm in NetBeans, the definition came up as the tooltip-warning and on compiling there only popped up "compiling error"