Convert ChartJSCore.Models.Chart to image

[MrVine]

Hello! Your library is awesome, I have experience of use it in ASP.NET Core MVC project, but currently I want to use it in ASP.NET WebApi project to generate charts on a server-side.

Question: is it possible to convert instance of Chart class to some type of image (like png, jpg or something like this) in base64 format or in byte[] ?
Thank you.

[mattosaurus]

Hi @MrVine, the actual rendering of the chart takes place in the browser and is done by the chart.js plugin, ChartJSCore only generates the code for chart.js and doesn't actually do any of the rendering itself.

It seems like it is possible to get a byte[] from a rendered chart.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20206038/converting-chart-js-canvas-chart-to-image-using-todataurl-results-in-blank-im
but I don't think this is what you're after as you'd need to first render the chart on a page before getting the byte[] for it and then return this from your API which would be pretty convoluted.