Using JavaScript to display a Blob

I am retrieving a Blob image from a database, and I'd like to be able to view that image using JavaScript. The following code produces a broken image icon on the page:

var image = document.createElement('image');
    image.src = 'data:image/bmp;base64,'+Base64.encode(blob);
    document.body.appendChild(image);

Here is a jsFiddle containing all the code required, including the blob. The completed code should properly display an image.

You can also get BLOB object directly from XMLHttpRequest. Setting responseType to blob makes the trick. Here is my code:

var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.open("GET", "http://localhost/image.jpg");
xhr.responseType = "blob";
xhr.onload = response;
xhr.send();

And the response function looks like this:

function response(e) {
   var urlCreator = window.URL || window.webkitURL;
   var imageUrl = urlCreator.createObjectURL(this.response);
   document.querySelector("#image").src = imageUrl;
}

We just have to make an empty image element in HTML:

<img id="image"/>

If you want to use fetch instead:

var myImage = document.querySelector('img');

fetch('flowers.jpg').then(function(response) {
  return response.blob();
}).then(function(myBlob) {
  var objectURL = URL.createObjectURL(myBlob);
  myImage.src = objectURL;
});

Source:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fetch_API/Using_Fetch

You can convert your string into a Uint8Array to get the raw data. Then create a Blob for that data and pass to URL.createObjectURL(blob) to convert the Blob into a URL that you pass to img.src.

var data = '424D5E070000000000003E00000028000000EF...';

// Convert the string to bytes
var bytes = new Uint8Array(data.length / 2);

for (var i = 0; i < data.length; i += 2) {
    bytes[i / 2] = parseInt(data.substring(i, i + 2), /* base = */ 16);
}

// Make a Blob from the bytes
var blob = new Blob([bytes], {type: 'image/bmp'});

// Use createObjectURL to make a URL for the blob
var image = new Image();
image.src = URL.createObjectURL(blob);
document.body.appendChild(image);

You can try the complete example at: http://jsfiddle.net/nj82y73d/

Using JavaScript to display a Blob

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