iOS: It's not working with local URI returned by RNFS.LibraryDirectoryPath

[iamamanbirdi]

It's not working with local URI, such as that returned by RNFS.LibraryDirectoryPath in the react-native-fs library.

In my case the URI value is /Users/aman.birdi/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices/674B2D17-A812-42C9-8E54-1D01D353967C/data/Containers/Data/Application/05897FAC-C6A7-4FD4-A118-E4199C98A8B4/Library/Caches/Books/ae038166-d3a3-49f9-920d-8fd35ec21ba2_small_cover.jpg.

I tried to pass it with and without require but no luck.

[osamaqarem]

For now you can use readFile from react-native-fs and use base64 encoding.
https://github.com/itinance/react-native-fs#readfilefilepath-string-encoding-string-promisestring

Concatenate the image file mime type to the base64 string if its missing (the part in bold):

"data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4Ri..."

You can pass this string.

const imageBase64 = "data:image/jpeg;base64,/9j/4Ri..."

const colors = await ImageColors.getColors(imageBase64 )

For now I'll keep a lookout for more issues like this. If it seems very common then I'll consider adding support for this usecase directly into the library (pull requests welcome meanwhile).

[iamamanbirdi]

Thanks for replying, I'll try the base64 approach and post the results.

[iamamanbirdi]

Working fine after getting base64 from localURI.