ArrayBuffer to blob conversion

Question

I have a project where I need to display djvu schemas in browser.

I found this old library on Github which, as far as I understood, converts djvu files to bmp and th

Answer 1

var buffer = new ArrayBuffer(32);

new Blob([buffer]);

so the Uint8Array should be

new Blob([new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3, 4]).buffer]);

Answer 2

I don't know why the author did wrap his Uint8Array in an new one... note that I don't really know either the deprecated BlobBuilder API, but one typo I can see in your code is that you need to wrap your TypedArray in a normal Array:

new Blob([new Uint8Array(buffer, byteOffset, length)]);

The Blob constructor takes a blobParts sequence as first parameter, and then searches for BufferSource, USVStrings and Blob elements in this sequence. So when you pass a TypedArray, it will actually iterate over all the entries of this TypedArray and treat these as USVString (and thus convert their numerical value to UTF-8 strings in the Blob). That's rarely what you want, so better always pass an Array in this constructor.