package utils import ( "encoding/base64" "fmt" "io" "net/http" "strings" "time" ) var base64DownloadClient http.Client = http.Client{ Timeout: 30 * time.Second, } // this function check if the string is an URL, if it's an URL downloads the image in memory // encodes it in base64 and returns the base64 string // This may look weird down in pkg/utils while it is currently only used in core/config // // but I believe it may be useful for MQTT as well in the near future, so I'm // extracting it while I'm thinking of it. func GetImageURLAsBase64(s string) (string, error) { if strings.HasPrefix(s, "http") { // download the image resp, err := base64DownloadClient.Get(s) if err != nil { return "", err } defer resp.Body.Close() // read the image data into memory data, err := io.ReadAll(resp.Body) if err != nil { return "", err } // encode the image data in base64 encoded := base64.StdEncoding.EncodeToString(data) // return the base64 string return encoded, nil } // if the string instead is prefixed with "data:image/jpeg;base64,", drop it if strings.HasPrefix(s, "data:image/jpeg;base64,") { return strings.ReplaceAll(s, "data:image/jpeg;base64,", ""), nil } return "", fmt.Errorf("not valid string") }