Display blobs using JavaScript

Question

I'm retrieving a Blob image from a database and I want to be able to view the 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 that contains all the code needed, including the blob. The completed code should display the image correctly.

Answer 1

You can also get the BLOB object directly from XMLHttpRequest. Just set responseType to blob. This is my code:

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

The response function is as follows:

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

We just create an empty image element in HTML:

<img id="image"/>

Answer 2

The problem is that I have hexadecimal data that needs to be converted to binary before Base64 encoding.

In PHP:

base64_encode(pack("H*", $subvalue))