Base64 Data

[Cretezy]

It would be nice to support base64 for the data, hence avoiding multiple problems of having to deal with encoding JSON in the URL.

[typpo]

That's a good idea, I'll see what I can do. In the meantime, do you want to share your difficulty URL-encoding the JSON? I would imagine base64 encoding is no more difficult than URL encoding, as most languages have built-in libraries capable of doing both.

[Cretezy]

It could help with handling of the pound symbol for sure, it's a lot more trouble to have to convert hex -> rgb than just base64 it 😋

[typpo]

Hmm, I think your URL encoder should handle pound signs though! For example, in Javascript:

> encodeURIComponent('color:#abc123')
'color%3A%23abc123'

[typpo]

Goods news, I've just added support for base64 encoding! Although you could theoretically solve your problem with URL encoding, base64 is more compact and it plays nicer with unicode :)

Here's an example:

https://quickchart.io/chart?encoding=base64&c=ew0KICB0eXBlOiAnYmFyJywNCiAgZGF0YTogew0KICAgIGxhYmVsczogWydKYW51YXJ5JywgJ0ZlYnJ1YXJ5JywgJ01hcmNoJywgJ0FwcmlsJywgJ01heSddLA0KICAgIGRhdGFzZXRzOiBbew0KICAgICAgbGFiZWw6ICdEb2dzJywNCiAgICAgIGRhdGE6IFsgNTAsIDYwLCA3MCwgMTgwLCAxOTAgXQ0KICAgIH0sIHsNCiAgICAgIGxhYmVsOiAnQ2F0cycsDQogICAgICBkYXRhOiBbIDEwMCwgMjAwLCAzMDAsIDQwMCwgNTAwIF0NCiAgICB9XQ0KICB9DQp9

Docker package is updated as well. Let me know if you have any issues!

[Cretezy]

Ah you're totally right about #! The README slightly confused me.

Anyways thanks, this is an awesome feature!