Return a base64 string after hooking into the middleware

[rndthoughts]

I am using the Azure Blob and Cache providers and would like to know if there is a way I can hook into the middleware to retrieve an image and hit the cache if applicable so that I can then take this image and return it as base64?

I looked at implementing custom providers and I can see how to do it but obviously any provider implementing ImageWebProcessor needs to return a FormattedImage which presumably gets passed to the caller usually via the url request.

I need to return a base64 string, but would like to make use of any existing cached image objects to avoid the extra processing?

[JimBobSquarePants]

I’m afraid it’s simply not designed for that.

Tbh I’m not sure what the possible use case would be either?

[rndthoughts]

I have code that generates a pdf into which I would like to inject the profile image of a user. It would be great to be able to call the image middleware with a given size, let it cache it and then hit the cache next time before converting to base64. Otherwise I have to resize everytime.

[JimBobSquarePants]

Does the size change often? Why not resize it once on upload and store it.