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Javascript network url fetcher backed by <img> tag #1951

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colinrtwhite opened this issue Dec 13, 2023 · 0 comments
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Javascript network url fetcher backed by <img> tag #1951

colinrtwhite opened this issue Dec 13, 2023 · 0 comments
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colinrtwhite commented Dec 13, 2023

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
One of the downsides of running Kotlin Multiplatform code on browser-based Javascript is that it's not possible to read from or write to the device's file system. Currently, that means NetworkFetcher can't cache images on disk and can only store them in memory.

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Due to the nature of browser-based Javascript, it's not possible to write a FileSystem implementation for Javascript. As such it's not possible to write a Ktor response body to disk. This means we need to write a separate fetcher since we can't rely on Ktor or Okio.

The <img> tag in Javascript has special privileges to write to a disk cache on browsers. Using this tag we may be able to fetch the image data using a hidden <img> tag and then read and wrap its binary data as an ImageSource. Ideally, we would avoid the <img> tag decoding the image into memory, but I'm not sure if that's possible.

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This may or may not happen as there might be blockers or performance issues. I'm not very familiar with the web's APIs and their constraints.

@colinrtwhite colinrtwhite added enhancement New feature or request help wanted Issues that are up for grabs + are good candidates for community PRs 3.0 Relates to Coil 3.0. labels Dec 13, 2023
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