How to parse into base64 string the binary image from response?

Question

I want to parse the requested image from my REST API into base64 string.

Answer 1

instead of looping through the blob with _arrayBufferToBase64(), use apply() to do the conversion, it's 30 times faster in my browser and is more concise

// http://www.henryalgus.com/reading-binary-files-using-jquery-ajax/
function fetchBlob(uri, callback) {
  var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
  xhr.open('GET', uri, true);
  xhr.responseType = 'arraybuffer';

  xhr.onload = function(e) {
    if (this.status == 200) {
      var blob = this.response;
      if (callback) {
        callback(blob);
      }
    }
  };
  xhr.send();
};

fetchBlob('https://i.imgur.com/uUGeiSFb.jpg', function(blob) {
  var str = String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint8Array(blob));
  console.log(str);
  // the base64 data: image is then
  // ''	
});