Is it possible to return a blob via stdout

[toomanylogins]

Rather than write an output file to temp can a processed image be returned via stdout ?

I am running latest 0.22 on a folder as follows.

sic --glob-input "G:/Temp/*.{jpg, jpeg, png}" --glob-output "C:/Users/Paul/AppData/Local/Temp/youdocms" --resize 200 200

after about 70 files I get format error but no file ref. The directory does inc files other than jpg,jpeg and png.

Thanks
Paul

[foresterre]

Rather than write an output file to temp can a processed image be returned via stdout ?

For individual files, you can do the following to get a blob:

sic --output-format png --input .\resources\logo\sic_500.jpg --resize 200 200 >> out.png

Files which use --glob-input currently always require --glob-output to be present, and this mode doesn't currently support stdout.

Looking at your paths, I think you're on Windows; as a workaround you could use the following Powershell:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse ".\resources" -Include "*.jpg","*.jpeg","*.png" | ForEach-Object { sic --input $_.FullName --output somedir/$($_.Name) --resize 200 200 }

For your directories:

Get-ChildItem -Recurse "G:/Temp" -Include "*.jpg","*.jpeg","*.png" | ForEach-Object { sic --input $_.FullName --output C:/Users/Paul/AppData/Local/Temp/youdocms/$($_.Name) --resize 200 200 }

after about 70 files I get format error but no file ref. The directory does inc files other than jpg,jpeg and png.

That's not good! I should improve the error message and/or add a flag to allow for (silent/with a warning to stderr) failures.

If you still have the exact error that would be helpful :).

Rather than write an output file to temp can a processed image be returned via stdout ?

Say that I would implement this, in what way would you expect the different images to be output? i.e. if you have a stream of byte buffers, how do you:

A) know the type of the output file* (e.g. png, jpg, bmp), and
B) know where one image ends, and the next begins (e.g. a next line in jsonlines).

* some are guessable by their file header

[toomanylogins]

Thank you for reply. I have this working via blob or file and looping through the files. Not getting the format error. I will try to track down the file that is causing the problem if I try to process a directory.

However if using individual files with blob output the blob is only created if the output format matches the input.

sic.exe --output-format jpg --input "G:\Temp\test\IMG_6344.PNG" --resize 200 200 >> empty blob

The error is as follows.

Error: Unable to save image.

Caused by:
0: The decoder for Jpeg does not support the color type Rgba16
1: The decoder for Jpeg does not support the color type Rgba16

if the output format is png with same file the blob is returned.

[foresterre]

after about 70 files I get format error but no file ref. The directory does inc files other than jpg,jpeg and png.

That's not good! I should improve the error message and/or add a flag to allow for (silent/with a warning to stderr) failures.

I added error context in #1555.
Released as 0.22.2.