Loading image with glide while server returns base64

Question

When I load an image with something like this:

String url = "https://example.com/user/123123/profile_pic" Glide.with(context).load(url).into(imageView);

server response is in base64 and glide doesn't handle it by default

My current solution:

load image with retrofit -> pass image encoded to glide

in this case I would lose glide caching. I wonder if there is a way to make that request with glide and handle base64 response?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 17 '17 at 13:55

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You can convert Base64 String to byte then load that byte into glide.

byte[] imageByteArray = Base64.decode(imageBytes, Base64.DEFAULT); 
// here imageBytes is base64String

Glide.with(context)
    .load(imageByteArray)
    .asBitmap()
    .into(imageView);

answered Aug 17 '17 at 13:55

Chirag

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But the thing is that I would need to make request somewhere else, and then pass it to Glide. Then no caching and etc. I am looking ways for Glide handle base64 response – Tomas Aug 17 '17 at 14:01

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Sep 05 '19 at 10:07

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Use custom ModelLoader for Glide

https://bumptech.github.io/glide/tut/custom-modelloader.html

good manual for this problem

In class Base64DataFetcher ->

public void loadData(@NonNull Priority priority, @NonNull DataCallback<? super ByteBuffer> callback) {  

    String base64Section = getBase64SectionOfModel(); 
    // get this from Retrofit or another
    .........
}

edited Sep 05 '19 at 10:07

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answered Sep 05 '19 at 08:56

Ivan Pursheha

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Loading image with glide while server returns base64

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