Swift 3 base64 encode image for upload

Question

I have some nice code that allows me to pic and image and then display it in app. I was also uploading the profilePic.image to my database (as a blob) but I realised that this was not actually uploading the image itself but just data about the image so I could not render anything back as there was nothing to decode. So I want to transform this function to get the chosen image and encode it to base64 and utilise same working upload

func imagePickerController(
        _ selectImage: UIImagePickerController,
        didFinishPickingMediaWithInfo info: [String : AnyObject])
    {
        let chosenImage = info[UIImagePickerControllerEditedImage] as! UIImage //2
        // imageByCroppingToRect()
        profilePic.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit //3
        profilePic.image = chosenImage //4
        dismiss(animated: true, completion: nil) //5
    }

Jakub · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-09 11:59:58Z

10

You have to convert the UIImage to a format your website can read, e.g. jpeg before encoding it in base 64.

let jpegCompressionQuality: CGFloat = 0.9 // Set this to whatever suits your purpose
if let base64String = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(chosenImage, jpegCompressionQuality)?.base64EncodedString() {
    // Upload base64String to your database
}

Note: In iOS 12 UIImageJPEGRepresentation was replaced by an instance method jpegData of UIImage:

let jpegCompressionQuality: CGFloat = 0.9 // Set this to whatever suits your purpose
if let base64String = chosenImage.jpegData(compressionQuality: jpegCompressionQuality)?.base64EncodedString() {
    // Upload base64String to your database
}

Refer to the Apple documentation for UIImageJPEGRepresentation and Data

edited Apr 9, 2019 at 11:59

answered Sep 29, 2016 at 9:15

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Fabian · Accepted Answer · 2018-04-17 14:30:45Z

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Data has a function to return a base64 representation of itself as another Data. No need to convert to String and back.

Take a look at the docs for Data.base64EncodedData()

if let data = UIImageJPEGRepresentation(photos, 0.5)?.base64EncodedData() {
    form.append(data, withName: "images", fileName: "photo.jpeg", mimeType: "image/jpeg")
}

answered Apr 17, 2018 at 14:30

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