How do I return an image in fastAPI?

Question

Using the python module fastAPI, I can\'t figure out how to return an image. In flask I would do something like this:

@app.route(\"/vector_image\", methods=[         


        

Answer 1

It's not properly documented yet, but you can use anything from Starlette.

So, you can use a FileResponse if it's a file in disk with a path: https://www.starlette.io/responses/#fileresponse

If it's a file-like object created in your path operation, in the next stable release of Starlette (used internally by FastAPI) you will also be able to return it in a StreamingResponse.