Concatenating ByteArrayOutputStream

Question

public byte[] toByteArray() {
    try {
        ByteArrayOutputStream objectStream = dataObject.toByteArrayOutputStream();
        DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(objectStream);
        dout.writeUTF(recordid);    

        dout.close();
        objectStream.close();
        return objectStream.toByteArray();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
}

The problem with the code above. First I create a Stream object (in another class). Then I manually add the entry to ByteArrayOutputStream. But is there a way to add recordId first and then add ByteArrayOutputStream to it? Basically, I have 2 ByteArrayoutputStreams that need to be combined (and ByteArrayOutputStream remains).

edit: My new version should work, but it is not. When I print the dout hash, it remains the same before and after the flush. How does it stay empty? Is it possible?

public byte[] toByteArray() {
        try {

            ByteArrayOutputStream realOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(realOutputStream);
            dout.writeUTF(dataObject.getClass().toString());
            dout.writeUTF(recordid);
            System.out.println("Recordid: " + recordid + "|" +  dout.hashCode());
            dout.flush();
            System.out.println("Recordid: " + recordid + "|" +  dout.hashCode());

            ByteArrayOutputStream objectStream = dataObject.toByteArrayOutputStream();
            dout.write(objectStream.toByteArray());

            dout.close();
            objectStream.close();
            return objectStream.toByteArray();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
    } 

Answer 1

try the following to post the record first.

ByteArrayOutputStream objectStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(objectStream);
dout.writeUTF(recordid);    
dout.write(dataObject.toByteArrayOutputStream().toByteArray());

Answer 2

writeTo() ByteArrayOutputStream OutputStream.

Answer 3

I don't know what the API is ByteArrayOutputStreamin J2ME, but try:

ByteArrayOutputStream realOutput = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(realOutput);
dout.writeUTF(recordid);
dout.flush();

ByteArrayOutputStream objectStream = dataObject.toByteArrayOutputStream();
objectStream.writeTo(realOutput);

return realOutput.toByteArray();

Answer 4

You can write dataObject, and recordidin the current (incorrect) order, and then turn them into place:

public byte[] toByteArray() {
    try {
        ByteArrayOutputStream objectStream = dataObject.toByteArrayOutputStream();
        int pos = objectStream.size();
        DataOutputStream dout = new DataOutputStream(objectStream);
        dout.writeUTF(recordid);    
        dout.close();
        objectStream.close();
        byte[] array = return objectStream.toByteArray();
        rotate(array, pos);
        return array;
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return null;
    }
}

private static void rotate(byte[] array, int pos) {
    reverse(array, 0, pos);
    reverse(array, pos, array.length);
    reverse(array, 0, array.length);
}

private static void reverse(byte[] array, int start, int end) {
    while (start < --end) {
        byte t = array[start];
        array[start] = array[end];
        array[end] = t;
        ++ start;
    }
}