How to send image generated by PIL to browser?

Question

I\'m using flask for my application. I\'d like to send an image (dynamically generated by PIL) to client without saving on disk.

Any idea how to do this ?

Answer 1

I was also struggling in the same situation. Finally, I have found its solution using a WSGI application, which is an acceptable object for "make_response" as its argument.

from Flask import make_response

@app.route('/some/url/to/photo')
def local_photo():
    print('executing local_photo...')
    with open('test.jpg', 'rb') as image_file:
        def wsgi_app(environ, start_response):
            start_response('200 OK', [('Content-type', 'image/jpeg')])
            return image_file.read()
        return make_response(wsgi_app)

Please replace "opening image" operations with appropriate PIL operations.