Golang : Convert []byte to image
There are times when you need to convert []byte to image for saving into file purpose. I encountered one of this situation today as I need to save a generated QR code into PNG file.
In this short tutorial, we will learn how to convert []byte into image and save to a PNG file. Basically to convert to image, you just need to process the []byte variable with bytes.NewReader()
function and wrap it with image.Decode()
function.
See example :
imgByte := code.PNG()
// convert []byte to image for saving to file
img, _, _ := image.Decode(bytes.NewReader(imgByte))
//save the imgByte to file
out, err := os.Create("./QRImg.png")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
err = png.Encode(out, img)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
and the entire program :
package main
import (
"bytes"
"code.google.com/p/rsc/qr"
"crypto/rand"
"fmt"
"image"
"image/png"
"os"
"runtime"
)
func randStr(strSize int, randType string) string {
var dictionary string
if randType == "alphanum" {
dictionary = "0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
}
if randType == "alpha" {
dictionary = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
}
if randType == "number" {
dictionary = "0123456789"
}
var bytes = make([]byte, strSize)
rand.Read(bytes)
for k, v := range bytes {
bytes[k] = dictionary[v%byte(len(dictionary))]
}
return string(bytes)
}
func main() {
// maximize CPU usage for maximum performance
runtime.GOMAXPROCS(runtime.NumCPU())
// generate a random string - preferbly 6 or 8 characters
randomStr := randStr(6, "alphanum")
fmt.Println(randomStr)
// generate the link or any data you want to
// encode into QR codes
// in this example, we use an example of two factor
// authentication link. Replace the authTFAlink
// with yours.
authTFAlink := "otpauth://socketloop.com?key=" + randomStr + "&issuer=SocketLoop"
// Encode authTFAlink to QR codes
// qr.L = 20% redundant level
// see https://godoc.org/code.google.com/p/rsc/qr#Level
code, err := qr.Encode(authTFAlink, qr.L)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
imgByte := code.PNG()
// convert []byte to image for saving to file
img, _, _ := image.Decode(bytes.NewReader(imgByte))
//save the imgByte to file
out, err := os.Create("./QRImg.png")
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
err = png.Encode(out, img)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println(err)
os.Exit(1)
}
// everything ok
fmt.Println("QR code generated and saved to QRimg.png")
}
References :
https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-save-image-to-png-jpeg-or-gif-format
https://www.socketloop.com/tutorials/golang-convert-an-image-file-to-byte
See also : Golang : Convert an image file to []byte
By Adam Ng
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