JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground

by harianus

HTML

<img src="file:///Volumes/Data/Downloads/466148_10151645430785152_147662183_o.jpg" id="someImage" />

JavaScript

(function() {
    // access the raw image data
    var img = document.getElementById('someImage');
    var canvas = document.createElement('canvas');
    var ctx = canvas.getContext('2d');
    canvas.width = img.width;
    canvas.height = img.height;
    ctx.drawImage(img, 0, 0);
    var dataUrl = canvas.toDataURL('image/png');
    var blob = dataUriToBlob(dataUrl);

    // submit as a multipart form, along with any other data
    var form = new FormData();
    var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
    xhr.open('POST', 'http://eerstelinks.nl/api/v1/post/sander', true);    // plug-in desired URL
    xhr.onreadystatechange = function() {
        if (xhr.readyState == 4) {
            if (xhr.status == 200) {
                alert('Success: ' + xhr.responseText);
            } else {
                alert('Error submitting image: ' + xhr.status);
            }
        }
    };
    form.append('param1', 'value1');
    form.append('param2', 'value2');
    form.append('theFile', blob);
    xhr.send(form);

    function dataUriToBlob(dataURI) {
        // serialize the base64/URLEncoded data
        var byteString;
        if (dataURI.split(',')[0].indexOf('base64') >= 0) {
            byteString = atob(dataURI.split(',')[1]);
        }
        else {
            byteString = unescape(dataURI.split(',')[1]);
        }

        // parse the mime type
        var mimeString = dataURI.split(',')[0].split(':')[1].split(';')[0]

        // construct a Blob of the image data
        var array = [];
        for(var i = 0; i < byteString.length; i++) {
            array.push(byteString.charCodeAt(i));
        }
        return new Blob(
            [new Uint8Array(array)],
            {type: mimeString}
        );
    }
})();