Pymongo BSON Binary save and retrieve?

Question

I'm working in Python with MongoDB trying to save an array of floats tightly.

I can Create and store correctly *

but I CANNOT RETRIEVE THE DATA IN A USABLE FORMAT.

>>> import random, array, pymongo
>>> from bson.binary import Binary as BsonBinary
>>> con = pymongo.Connection('localhost', 27017)
>>> mm = con['testDatabase']
>>> vals = [random.random() *100 for x in range(1, 5)]
>>> vals
[2.9962593, 64.5582810776, 32.3781311717, 82.0606953423]
>>> varray = array.array('f', vals)
>>> varray
array('f', [2.9962593, 64.5582810776, 32.3781311717, 82.0606953423])
>>> vstring = varray.tostring()
>>> vstring
'\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B'
>>> vbson = BsonBinary(vstring, 5)
>>> vbson
Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)
>>> doc1 = { 'something': 1 , 'else' : vbson}
>>> doc1
{'something': 1, 'else': Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)}
>>> mm.test1.insert(doc1)
ObjectID('530f7af1d809d80d3db1f635')
>>> gotdoc = mm.test1.find_one()
>>> gotdoc
{u'_id': ObjectId('530f7af1d809d80d3db1f635'), u'something': 3, u'else': Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)}
>>> gotfield = gotdoc['else']
>>> gotfield
Binary('\xb7\xc2?@\xd7\x1d\x81B5\x83\x01B\x13\x1f\xa4B', 5)
>>> from bson import BSON
>>> BSON.decode(gotfield)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
TypeError: unbound method decode() must be called with BSON instance as first argument (got Binary instance instead)
>>> gotfield.decode()
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xb7 in position 0: ordinal not in range(128)
>>>

Once I get my Python string back, I can get my array of random floats back. But how?

Answer 1

I'm coming~ I just find a way. Hope this may help you somehow.

from cStringIO import StringIO
from PIL import Image

save image:

content = StringIO(f.read())

c = dict(
    content=bson.binary.Binary(content.getvalue()),
)
# insert dict into my database, sha1 is primary key
image_data[sha1] = c

retrieve image:

f = image_data[sha1]
image = Image.open(StringIO(f['content']))

----EDIT----

If you want to return an image from web servers.Do like this:

f = image_data[sha1]
# f['mime'] is the type of image, for example 'png'.
resp = Response(f['content'], mimetype='image/' + f['mime'])
return resp