hey all, this isn't written totally generally but here is a shot. i would like to return the raw binary data for an img src request and have it display properly on the html page. here is my code:
the db.py table definition: db.define_table('png', Field('input_date', 'date', comment='format YYYY-MM-DD', default=datetime.date.today(), writable=False, readable=False), Field('png', 'blob', comment='which in postgresql 9.1 is a confirmed bytea field type'), format = '%(id)s %(input_date)s') and under default.py controller: def png(): t = TABLE(TR(TD('png record count: '+str(db(db.png.id>0).count()), _colspan='3'))) qry = db(db.png.id>0).select() for q in qry: t.append(TR(TD(q.input_date), TD(IMG(_src=URL('default', 'getbinary', args=['png', q.id, 'png']))))) return HTML(BODY(t)) def getbinary(): data = db(db[request.args[0]].id==int(request.args[1])).select(db[request.args[0]][request.args[2]]).first() #data = base64.decodestring(data[request.args[2]]) data = data[request.args[2]] response.headers['Content-Type'] = 'image/png' return response.write(data, escape=True) where you can see i experimented with various "things" to try to get it to display properly under the browser. i have a test png in the database and under postgresql it is confirmed to be 5513 bytes long in hex format. can anyone suggest proper working code? i believe the problem is in the getbinary function. thank you in advance. lucas -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.