PrimeFaces Cookbook

Creating dynamic image streaming programmatically

With the graphicImage component, it is possible to render an image that is created programmatically in the server-side backing bean.

How to do it...

The following is an example that renders a PrimeFaces logo that is read with the resource streaming mechanism.

<p:graphicImage value="#{dynaImageController.graphicText}" />

public StreamedContent getGraphicText() throws IOException {
  InputStream stream = this.getClass().getResourceAsStream("/chapter9/primefaces.jpg");
  return new DefaultStreamedContent(stream);
}

How it works…

As seen, the getGraphicText() method returns an instance of StreamedContent. PrimeFaces also provides a default implementation for the stream content, which is org.primefaces.model.DefaultStreamedContent ...