Can an ASP.NET MVC controller return an Image?

Question

Can I create a Controller that simply returns an image asset?

I would like to route this logic through a controller, whenever a URL such as the following is requeste

Answer 1

This worked for me. Since I'm storing images on a SQL Server database.

    [HttpGet("/image/{uuid}")]
    public IActionResult GetImageFile(string uuid) {
        ActionResult actionResult = new NotFoundResult();
        var fileImage = _db.ImageFiles.Find(uuid);
        if (fileImage != null) {
            actionResult = new FileContentResult(fileImage.Data,
                fileImage.ContentType);
        }
        return actionResult;
    }

In the snippet above _db.ImageFiles.Find(uuid) is searching for the image file record in the db (EF context). It returns a FileImage object which is just a custom class I made for the model and then uses it as FileContentResult.

public class FileImage {
   public string Uuid { get; set; }
   public byte[] Data { get; set; }
   public string ContentType { get; set; }
}