Listing the Image Formats That Can Be Read and Written

By default, the javax.imageio package can read GIF, PNG, and JPEG images and can write PNG and JPEG images. The complete list of available readable and writeable formats can be retrieved by calling ImageIO.getReaderFormatNames() and ImageIO.getWriterFormatNames().

Note: These methods may return the format name in both lowercase and uppercase. This example implements a unique() method that removes duplicates, regardless of case.

// Get list of unique supported read formats String[] formatNames = ImageIO.getReaderFormatNames(); formatNames = unique(formatNames); // e.g. png jpeg gif jpg // Get list of unique supported write formats formatNames = ImageIO.getWriterFormatNames(); formatNames = unique(formatNames); // e.g. png jpeg jpg // Get list of unique MIME types that can be read formatNames = ImageIO.getReaderMIMETypes(); formatNames = unique(formatNames); // e.g image/jpeg image/png image/x-png image/gif // Get list of unique MIME types that can be written formatNames = ImageIO.getWriterMIMETypes(); formatNames = unique(formatNames); // e.g. image/jpeg image/png image/x-png // Converts all strings in 'strings' to lowercase // and returns an array containing the unique values. // All returned values are lowercase. public static String[] unique(String[] strings) { Set set = new HashSet(); for (int i=0; i<strings.length; i++) { String name = strings[i].toLowerCase(); set.add(name); } return (String[])set.toArray(new String[0]); }

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