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Using jQuery's ajax method to retrieve images as a blob

I recently asked another (related) question, which lead to this follow up question: Submitting data instead of a file for an input form

Reading through the jQuery.ajax() documentation (http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.ajax/), it seems the list of accepted dataTypes doesn't include images.

I'm trying to retrieve an image using jQuery.get (or jQuery.ajax if I have to), store this image in a Blob and upload it to another server in a POST request. Currently, it looks like due to the mismatch in datatypes, my images end up being corrupt (size in bytes mismatch, etc.).

The code to perform this is as follows (it is in coffeescript but shouldn't be difficult to parse):

handler = (data,status) ->
  fd = new FormData
  fd.append("file", new Blob([data], { "type" : "image/png" }))
  jQuery.ajax {
    url: target_url,
    data: fd,
    processData: false,
    contentType: "multipart/form-data",
    type: "POST",
    complete: (xhr,status) ->
      console.log xhr.status
      console.log xhr.statusCode
      console.log xhr.responseText

  }
jQuery.get(image_source_url, null, handler)

How can I retrieve this image as a blob instead?

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jabalsad Avatar asked Jul 15 '13 14:07

jabalsad


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2 Answers

You can't do this with jQuery ajax, but with native XMLHttpRequest.

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.onreadystatechange = function(){
    if (this.readyState == 4 && this.status == 200){
        //this.response is what you're looking for
        handler(this.response);
        console.log(this.response, typeof this.response);
        var img = document.getElementById('img');
        var url = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
        img.src = url.createObjectURL(this.response);
    }
}
xhr.open('GET', 'http://jsfiddle.net/img/logo.png');
xhr.responseType = 'blob';
xhr.send();      

EDIT

So revisiting this topic, it seems it is indeed possible to do this with jQuery 3

jQuery.ajax({
        url:'https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1465101108990-e5eac17cf76d?ixlib=rb-0.3.5&q=85&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=srgb&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjE0NTg5fQ%3D%3D&s=471ae675a6140db97fea32b55781479e',
        cache:false,
        xhr:function(){// Seems like the only way to get access to the xhr object
            var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
            xhr.responseType= 'blob'
            return xhr;
        },
        success: function(data){
            var img = document.getElementById('img');
            var url = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
            img.src = url.createObjectURL(data);
        },
        error:function(){
            
        }
    });
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<img id="img" width=100%>

or

use xhrFields to set the responseType

    jQuery.ajax({
            url:'https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1465101108990-e5eac17cf76d?ixlib=rb-0.3.5&q=85&fm=jpg&crop=entropy&cs=srgb&ixid=eyJhcHBfaWQiOjE0NTg5fQ%3D%3D&s=471ae675a6140db97fea32b55781479e',
            cache:false,
            xhrFields:{
                responseType: 'blob'
            },
            success: function(data){
                var img = document.getElementById('img');
                var url = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
                img.src = url.createObjectURL(data);
            },
            error:function(){
                
            }
        });
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <img id="img" width=100%>
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Musa Avatar answered Oct 10 '22 02:10

Musa


If you need to handle error messages using jQuery.AJAX you will need to modify the xhr function so the responseType is not being modified when an error happens.

So you will have to modify the responseType to "blob" only if it is a successful call:

$.ajax({
    ...
    xhr: function() {
        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
            if (xhr.readyState == 2) {
                if (xhr.status == 200) {
                    xhr.responseType = "blob";
                } else {
                    xhr.responseType = "text";
                }
            }
        };
        return xhr;
    },
    ...
    error: function(xhr, textStatus, errorThrown) {
        // Here you are able now to access to the property "responseText"
        // as you have the type set to "text" instead of "blob".
        console.error(xhr.responseText);
    },
    success: function(data) {
        console.log(data); // Here is "blob" type
    }
});

Note

If you debug and place a breakpoint at the point right after setting the xhr.responseType to "blob" you can note that if you try to get the value for responseText you will get the following message:

The value is only accessible if the object's 'responseType' is '' or 'text' (was 'blob').

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Alberto Avatar answered Oct 10 '22 02:10

Alberto