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Binary to image
filesDownload or filesGetThumbnail returns object with fileBinary property. I can't in any way I tried convert that data to image.
Most of the time I get this exception
DOMException: Failed to execute 'btoa' on 'Window': The string to be encoded contains characters outside of the Latin1 range.
Unless I do this
... img.src='data:image/jpeg;base64,' + window.btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(response.data.fileBinary))); ...
But again it is unreadable
And here is screenshot of original fileBinary data and converted data with code above
Any kind of solution would be nice :D thank you!
1 Reply
- Greg-DB
Dropbox Community Moderator
I believe you can just do something like this instead:
dbx.filesDownload({path: '/test.jpg'}) .then(function(response) { var fileUrl = URL.createObjectURL(response.fileBlob); var img = document.createElement('img'); img.setAttribute('src', fileUrl); document.getElementById('results').appendChild(img); }) .catch(function(error) { console.error(error); });
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