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Importing images to database text field ?

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lifalin2016
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Hi.

I have been assigned the task of importing 4000+ images from a remote service into a local Postgres database. An obvious FME task.

Fetching the images with ImageFetcher runs smoothly, but here starts my problems:

- I need to store the MIME type, but although ImageFetcher is set to auto-detect this, it never reveals it in the output. And no file extension is available, and no other transformer offers that service, so an improvement to ImageFetcher is warranted, I think.

- I need to store the image in a text column in base64 format, but a combination of GeometryExtractor (FME Binary) + TextEncoder (Base64) doesn't really seems to work.

The output should look like this: data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/........

Is there a better way to accomplish my task ?

Cheers

Best answer by ebygomm

Have you looked at using a HTTPcaller instead, you can store the response body directly as binary then and the response headers can be stored in a list

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ebygomm
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Have you looked at using a HTTPcaller instead, you can store the response body directly as binary then and the response headers can be stored in a list

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Have you looked at using a HTTPcaller instead, you can store the response body directly as binary then and the response headers can be stored in a list

Yeah, I got around to doing that. It seems like the only way.

 

Unfortunately, the output is still off, it seems, so maybe I'm still not getting the encoding right.

 

 

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HTTPcaller with response body as binary followed by a BinaryEncoder should get the encoding right, then you just need to construct the output with the data from the headers

image-to-base64.fmw

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HTTPcaller with response body as binary followed by a BinaryEncoder should get the encoding right, then you just need to construct the output with the data from the headers

image-to-base64.fmw

Can you insert into a MS SQL table (VARBINARY(MAX)) using SQLExecutor? if so how did you do it?

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