C# code to read image blob and expose as base 64 string from WebAPI

Rajnilari2015
Posted by Rajnilari2015 under Azure category on | Points: 40 | Views : 11989
Let us first write a utility service as under

using Microsoft.Azure;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage;
using Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Storage.Blob;
using System;
using System.IO;

namespace WebApplication1.Utilities
{
public class BlobStorageService
{

public string ReadImageContent(string blobName)
{
string connectionString = CloudConfigurationManager.GetSetting("StorageConnectionString");

// Retrieve storage account from connection string.
CloudStorageAccount storageAccount = CloudStorageAccount.Parse(connectionString);

// Create the blob client.
CloudBlobClient blobClient = storageAccount.CreateCloudBlobClient();

// Retrieve reference to a previously created container.
CloudBlobContainer container = blobClient.GetContainerReference("testblobaccountimportcontainer");

// Retrieve reference to a blob
CloudBlockBlob blockBlob2 = container.GetBlockBlobReference(blobName);

string datauri;
using (var memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
blockBlob2.DownloadToStream(memoryStream);
var bytes = memoryStream.ToArray();
var b64String = Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);
datauri = "data:image/png;base64," + b64String;
}
return datauri;
}
}
}


Then write the below in a controller

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web.Http;
using WebApplication1.Utilities;

namespace WebApplication1.Controllers
{
[RoutePrefix("BlobImage")]
public class ValuesController : ApiController
{

[Route("BlobImageData")]
[HttpGet]
public string GetPhotoData()
{
BlobStorageService df = new BlobStorageService();
var blobImageContent = df.ReadImageContent("Capture.PNG");
return blobImageContent;
}
}
}

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