How to save a image to HTML5 filesystem with the url of image

Question

I am trying to use HTML5 system to store images of my website, and I find there are many example to show how to store a local image to your chrome file system but I can\'t f

Answer 1

Here the function I use. It use Blob constructor so it works on latest Chrome (thats lacks deprecated BlobBuilder) and works also on old iOS 6 that lacks 'blob' for xhr.responseType.

In comments you also see code for the deprecated BlobBuilder.

Notice: you are using XHR so CORS must be enabled!

window.requestFileSystem = window.requestFileSystem || window.webkitRequestFileSystem;
window.requestFileSystem(window.PERSISTENT, 2*1024*1024, onFileSystemSuccess, fail);


function onFileSystemSuccess(fileSystem) {
    fs = fileSystem;
    console.log('File system initialized');

    saveAsset('http://www.example-site-with-cors.com/test.png');
}


function saveAsset(url, callback, failCallback) {
    var filename = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf('/')+1);

    // Set callback when not defined
    if (!callback) {
        callback = function(cached_url) {
            console.log('download ok: ' + cached_url);
        };
    }
    if (!failCallback) {
        failCallback = function() {
            console.log('download failed');
        };
    }

    // Set lookupTable if not defined
    if (!window.lookupTable)
        window.lookupTable = {};

    // BlobBuilder shim
    // var BlobBuilder = window.BlobBuilder || window.WebKitBlobBuilder || window.MozBlobBuilder || window.MSBlobBuilder;

    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open('GET', url, true);
    // xhr.responseType = 'blob';
    xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';

    xhr.addEventListener('load', function() {

        fs.root.getFile(filename, {create: true, exclusive: false}, function(fileEntry) {
            fileEntry.createWriter(function(writer) {

                writer.onwrite = function(e) {
                    // Save this file in the path to URL lookup table.
                    lookupTable[filename] = fileEntry.toURL();
                    callback(fileEntry.toURL());
                };

                writer.onerror = failCallback;

                // var bb = new BlobBuilder();
                var blob = new Blob([xhr.response], {type: ''});
                // bb.append(xhr.response);
                writer.write(blob);
                // writer.write(bb.getBlob());

            }, failCallback);
        }, failCallback);
    });

    xhr.addEventListener('error', failCallback);
    xhr.send();

    return filename;
}



function fail(evt) {
    console.log(evt.target.error.code);
}

Answer 2

On a modern browser supporting XMLHttpRequest Level 2 the method documented in this answer should work.

The relevant standard is explained in this blog post

Answer 3

The problem is that browser will parse xhr response data as UTF-8, So the point is to override MimeType:

window.requestFileSystem = window.requestFileSystem || window.webkitRequestFileSystem;

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
var photoUrl = 'http://localhost:3000/image.jpg';
xhr.open('GET', photoUrl, true);

// This stops the browser from parsing the data as UTF-8:
xhr.overrideMimeType('text/plain; charset=x-user-defined');

function stringToBinary(response) {
  var byteArray = new Uint8Array(response.length);
  for (var i = 0; i < response.length; i++) {
    byteArray[i] = response.charCodeAt(i) & 0xff;
  }
  return byteArray
}

function onInitFs(fs) {
  xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xhr.readyState == 4 && xhr.status == 200) {
      fs.root.getFile('image.jpg', {'create': true}, function(fileEntry) {
        fileEntry.createWriter(function(fileWriter) {
          fileWriter.onwriteend = function(event) {
            $('body').append('<img src="' + fileEntry.toURL() + '"/>');
          }

          buffer = stringToBinary(xhr.response);
          var blob = new Blob([ buffer ], { type: 'image/jpeg' } )

          fileWriter.write(blob);
        }, errorHandler );
      });
    }
  }
  xhr.send();
}

var errorHandler = function(err) {
  console.log(err);
}

$(function() {
  webkitStorageInfo.requestQuota(PERSISTENT, 5*1024*1024, function(grantedBytes) {
    requestFileSystem(PERSISTENT, grantedBytes, onInitFs, errorHandler)
  }, errorHandler)
})

Answer 4

The trick is to use xhr.responseType = 'blob'

var fs = .... // your fileSystem
function download(fs,url,file,win,fail) {
  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhr.open('GET', url);
  xhr.responseType = "blob";
  xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
    if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
      if(xhr.status === 200){
        fs.root.getFile(file,{create:true},function(fileEntry){
          fileEntry.createWriter(function(writer){
            writer.onwriteend = win;
            writer.onerror = fail;
            writer.write(xhr.response);
          })
        },fail)
      } else {
        fail(xhr.status);
      }
    }
  };
  xhr.send();
  return xhr;
};

Based on cordova-promise-fs (disclosure: I'm the author)

Answer 5

I find a way to do this.

use canvans.toDataURL to transfer data format.

var img = new Image();
                var cvs = document.createElement('canvas');
                var ctx  = cvs.getContext("2d");
                img.src = file;
                img.onload = function(){
                    cvs.width = img.width;
                    cvs.height = img.height;
                    ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
                    var imd = cvs.toDataURL(contentType[extname]);
                    var ui8a = convertDataURIToBinary(imd);
                    var bb = new BlobBuilder();
                    bb.append(ui8a.buffer);
                    fs.root.getFile(path, {create: true}, function(fileEntry) {
                        // Create a FileWriter object for our FileEntry (log.txt).
                        fileEntry.createWriter(function(fileWriter) {
                            fileWriter.onwriteend = function(e) {
                                console.log('Write completed.');
                                callback && callback("test.jpg");
                            };

                            fileWriter.onerror = function(e) {
                                console.log('Write failed: ' + e.toString());
                            };

                            fileWriter.write(bb.getBlob(contentType[extname]));
                        });
                    });
                };



    function convertDataURIToBinary(dataURI) {
    var BASE64_MARKER = ';base64,';
    var base64Index = dataURI.indexOf(BASE64_MARKER) + BASE64_MARKER.length;
    var base64 = dataURI.substring(base64Index);
    var raw = window.atob(base64);
    var rawLength = raw.length;
    var array = new Uint8Array(new ArrayBuffer(rawLength));

    for (i = 0; i < rawLength; i++) {
        array[i] = raw.charCodeAt(i);
    }
    return array;
}

I get help from here jsfiddle