[tcljava-user] Getting the data back from ByteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray

[BEASLEY, J. S <SBE...@sc...>]

Hello,

I am using a ByteArrayOutputStream object to read PDF data into, from a call to the iText library.  Everything is working out with tcl/Java and the library except this....  I perform a toByteArray on my ByteArrayOutputStream object, and it Creates a newly allocated byte array.  I do something like:

set j_byteArray [$memory_stream toByteArray] ; # memory_stream is my ByteArrayOutputStream object

This returns a good object handle from Blend.  How do I get the Byte Array Data from the Java object to a locale tcl variable in my code?  I can get it as a String like: set pdf_data [$memory_stream toString]  but the binary data in the pdf gets clobbered on the encoding conversion (I assume).  As of now, I have it working by Hex encoding the result of [$memory_stream toByteArray] in some Java code and calling and doing a [binary format] on the tcl side.  I would like a more direct way and save some processing time if I could.
 
Thanks