StringIO to Tempfile?

I recently discovered that uploaded files under ~20KB are used to create
StringIO objects instead of Tempfile objects. This has a negative
effect in my models:

class Image < Upload
def get_file_info
self[:width], self[:height] = `identify -format “%w %h” #{file.path

  • “[0]”}`.split
    end
    end

This doesn’t work as StringIO objects have no path, whereas Tempfile
objects do. So using ImageMagick I am unable to manipulate the uploaded
image as a StringIO due to the fact that it isn’t on the filesystem and
ImageMagick takes a filename. ImageMagick (as far as I know) cannot
operate on a blob, so whenever a user uploads a small image everything
falls apart.

What I -could- do is write the file to the filesystem first and then get
its width/height but this would be a sloppier solution. Since I use
height and width values for validation then I would have to: save the
file, then validate it, and if it fails validation manually delete that
file.

With larger files the upload is stored temporarily as a Tempfile, so it
is (if I’m not mistaken) automatically deleted if the validation fails
and the object is not saved. In this case I am afforded the convenience
of writing to the filesystem permanently only after_create.

So I’m wondering is there a way to create a Tempfile from a StringIO? I
have looked at the docs and been unable to find out how to create a
Tempfile from a blob.

On 4/30/07, R. Elliott M. [email protected] wrote:

end
height and width values for validation then I would have to: save the
Tempfile from a blob.
Personally, I’m not sure that’s the best way to go about it.
I’d just use the rmagick interface.
http://rmagick.rubyforge.org/

With that you can get the width/height/type much easier. See these
(slightly verbose) examples.
http://textsnippets.com/posts/show/543
http://www.rubyonrailsblog.com/articles/2006/09/08/ruby-on-rails-and-rmagick-crop-resize-rotate-thumbnail-and-upload-images

In particular, you could use something like

file.rewind
img = Magick::Image.from_blob(file.read)[0]

Then width & height are available in img.columns and img.rows

Chris M.
Web D.
Open Source & Web Standards Advocate
http://www.chriscodes.com/

So I’m wondering is there a way to create a Tempfile from a StringIO? I
have looked at the docs and been unable to find out how to create a
Tempfile from a blob.

It works like File.

TempFile.new do |f|
f.write file.to_s
end


Rick O.
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Doesn’t seem to be working? Gives me a File object that is 0 bytes. I
can open the file on my and it will be blank.

def get_file_info
@file = Tempfile.new(@file.original_filename) {|f|
f.write(@file.read)}
self[:width], self[:height] = identify -format "%w %h" #{@file.path + "[0]"}.split
end

Width/height end up as nil. :frowning:

Doesn’t seem to work from the console either. I’m guessing I could
write an arbitrary string to a Tempfile like:

file = Tempfile.new(‘test’) {|f| f.write(‘123456789’)}

But in this case file.read gives me “” and file.length gives me 0.

I’d use RMagick, but it’s overkill. I don’t need any complex
processing, just the width/height of the image. In my experience
RMagick adds a lot of overhead.

Code got kinda mangled by this forum’s forced linebreaks. Any chance
you could http://pastie.caboo.se this or something along those lines?
Looks great, it’s just that comments got cut off unto newlines. Thanks.

On May 1, 2007, at 10:00 PM, R. Elliott M. wrote:

Code got kinda mangled by this forum’s forced linebreaks. Any chance
you could http://pastie.caboo.se this or something along those lines?
Looks great, it’s just that comments got cut off unto newlines.
Thanks.

http://pastie.caboo.se/58251

One of these days I need to put everything like this into an
anonymously accessible repository, but this will do for now.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]

On May 1, 2007, at 12:09 AM, R. Elliott M. wrote:

I’d use RMagick, but it’s overkill. I don’t need any complex
processing, just the width/height of the image. In my experience
RMagick adds a lot of overhead.

Well, I intend this to make it onto RubyForge one day, but since you
have a need :wink: Drop this into your RAILS_ROOT/lib and Enjoy! If
you want the test/unit/image_size_test.rb, send me an offline email.

-Rob

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require ‘stringio’ # strictly for the ::of_blob

Given a duck-typed +IO+ object (which could be from +StringIO+,

+File+,

+open-uri+, etc.) containing image data, attempt to grab the width and

height. As a convenience, the size is defined as “#{width}x#{height}”

The description of JPEG and GIF files was taken from the

/usr/share/file/magic file from Mac OS X. The PNG

description was

validated against the spec at

PNG Specification: Chunk Specifications

class ImageSize

Prepare a new IO source. Should support IO#pos=, IO#read, and

IO#gets.

Supported formats:

* JPEG

* PNG

* GIF

def initialize source
@image = source
@header = nil
@width = @height = nil
end

A convenience method to pull size information from a file

def self.of_file path
obj = nil
File.open(path) do |f|
obj = new(f)
obj.size
end
obj
end

A convenience method to pull size information from a blob (i.e.,

a +String+)
def self.of_blob blob
obj = nil
sio = ::StringIO.new(blob)
obj = self.new(sio)
obj.size
obj
end

def size
[self.width,self.height] * ‘x’
end

[ :width, :height ].each do |property|
meth = “def #{property}; @#{property} ||= case\n”
[ :jpeg, :png, :gif ].each do |format|
meth << " when #{format}? : #{format}_#{property}; "
end
meth << " else -1; end; end"
class_eval meth
end

protected

Generic header takes bytes from the front. Once a type is known, a

format-specific header is retrieved from the data.

def header
@header unless @header.nil?
@image.pos=0
@image.read(100)
end

==================================================

# GIF

0 string GIF8 GIF image data

>4 string 7a \b, version 8%s,

>4 string 9a \b, version 8%s,

def gif?
header[0…6] =~ /GIF8[79]a/
end

>6 leshort >0 %hd x

>8 leshort >0 %hd

def gif_width
gif_header[6…8].unpack(‘v’).first
end
def gif_height
gif_header[8…10].unpack(‘v’).first
end

def gif_header
@header ||= read_gif_header
end

def read_gif_header
@image.pos=0
@image.read(10)
end

==================================================

PNG

# 137 P N G \r \n ^Z \n [4-byte length] H E A D [HEAD data]

[HEAD crc] …

0 string \x89PNG PNG image data,

>4 belong !0x0d0a1a0a CORRUPTED,

>4 belong 0x0d0a1a0a

def png?
header[0…8] == “\x89PNG\r\n\x1a\n”
end

>>16 belong x %ld x

>>20 belong x %ld,

and from the spec: http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/spec/1.2/PNG-

Chunks.html

4.1.1. IHDR Image header

The IHDR chunk must appear FIRST. It contains:

Width: 4 bytes

Height: 4 bytes

Bit depth: 1 byte

Color type: 1 byte

Compression method: 1 byte

Filter method: 1 byte

Interlace method: 1 byte

def png_width
png_header[16…20].unpack(‘N’).first
end
def png_height
png_header[20…24].unpack(‘N’).first
end

def png_header
@header ||= read_png_header
end

def read_png_header
@image.pos=0
@image.read(37) # through the end of the IHDR chunk
end

==================================================

JPEG

def jpeg?
# 0 beshort 0xffd8 JPEG image data
header[0…2] == “\xff\xd8” # ffd8 is the SOI - Start of Image
marker
end

def jpeg_header
@header ||= read_jpeg_header
end

The JFIF header is nasty in the sense that the size marker isn’t

in a

fixed place. Build the header up in pieces by reading the

markers and

data sizes until an “interesting” segment is found.

JPEG_SEG = /\xff[\xc0\xc1\xc2]/nm
def read_jpeg_header
@image.pos=0
buffer = ‘’

 buffer << @image.read(4)    # ffd8 ff__
 found_segment = false       # the first one has to be ffe_ which

is an
# APPx segment and not one that
would match
# our interesting JPEG_SEG pattern
while buffer[-2,2] != “\xff\xd9” # ffd9 is the EOI - End of
Image marker
buffer << @image.read(2)
datasize = buffer[-2,2].unpack(‘n’).first
# datasize includes the 2 bytes for itself so this gets the data
# (datasize-2 bytes) and the next marker (2 bytes), too
buffer << @image.read(datasize)
break if found_segment
found_segment = buffer[-2,2] =~ JPEG_SEG
end
buffer
end

Or, we can show the encoding type (I’ve included only the three

most common)

and image dimensions if we are lucky and the SOFn (image

segment) is here:

>(4.S+5) byte 0xC0 \b, baseline

>>(4.S+6) byte x \b, precision %d

>>(4.S+7) beshort x \b, %dx

>>(4.S+9) beshort x \b%d

>(4.S+5) byte 0xC1 \b, extended sequential

>>(4.S+6) byte x \b, precision %d

>>(4.S+7) beshort x \b, %dx

>>(4.S+9) beshort x \b%d

>(4.S+5) byte 0xC2 \b, progressive

>>(4.S+6) byte x \b, precision %d

>>(4.S+7) beshort x \b, %dx

>>(4.S+9) beshort x \b%d

DIM_RE = Regexp.new(%{#{JPEG_SEG}…(…)(…)}, Regexp::MULTILINE,
‘n’)

def jpeg_width
begin
jpeg_header[DIM_RE, 2].unpack(‘n’).first if jpeg?
rescue => e
raise ArgumentError, “Looking for #{DIM_RE} in JPEG data:\n#
{jpeg_header.unpack(‘H*’).first.scan(/.{2,64}/).join(”\n")}\n"
end
end
def jpeg_height
begin
jpeg_header[DIM_RE, 1].unpack(‘n’).first if jpeg?
rescue => e
raise ArgumentError, “Looking for #{DIM_RE} in JPEG data:\n#
{jpeg_header.unpack(‘H*’).first.scan(/.{2,64}/).join(”\n")}\n"
end
end

end

END

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]

Thanks. Perhaps you don’t want to be technical support, but I’m having
trouble getting this to work with jpg files:

can’t convert nil into String

#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/image_size.rb:182:in <<' #{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/image_size.rb:182:inread_jpeg_header’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/image_size.rb:166:in jpeg_header' #{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/image_size.rb:214:injpeg_width’
(eval):2:in width' #{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/image_size.rb:69:insize’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/image_size.rb:54:in of_file' #{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/image_size.rb:52:inopen’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/lib/image_size.rb:52:in of_file' #{RAILS_ROOT}/app/models/image.rb:25:inget_file_info’
#{RAILS_ROOT}/app/controllers/imageboard_controller.rb:70:in `new_post’

It seems to do fine with jpg blobs, but not actual files.

I haven’t experienced this with gifs or pngs. It’s not an immediate
problem because for File objects I can call ImageMagick and use your
class for StringIO’s. Just though I’d let you know.

On May 2, 2007, at 11:39 PM, R. Elliott M. wrote:

(eval):2:in `width’
I haven’t experienced this with gifs or pngs. It’s not an immediate
problem because for File objects I can call ImageMagick and use your
class for StringIO’s. Just though I’d let you know.

Can you send me an offline email (i.e., not through the mailing list
or forum) that has both the JPEG file and the actual code you’re
using? I suspect that there’s just a quirk in your JPEG file (I ran
into a few oddities myself) that needs a new unit test to uncover.
It looks like the end-of-file is being reached without finding the
segment that contains size information.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
[email protected]
Skype: rob.biedenharn