towfiles
Hi Guys,
I’m new to elixir and Phoenix. but im a bit stuck in this implementation. i am saving an image into the postgres DB as binary (i am intentionally not saving the image into a directory and retrieving the path). i am able to retrieve the image back from the db but how can i render the image back to the browser as if the image was visited by the browser like “http://abc.com/images/image1.png”
i assume i might need to set the response header as “content-type”: “image/jpeg” and find a way to send back the image to the browser as if i was opening an image link
please how can i achieve this?
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joshtaylor
So what you want to do in phoenix is render the image back right? So it’ll basically be a direct render?
If you store the mimetype this’ll make things a lot simpler.
Basically you’ll want to do this in your controller:
towfiles
much easier than i expected actually. and yes i already have the mime_type gotten from Plug.Upload and stored in the DB. and i assume you meant |> put_resp_content_type(mime_type) . thanks