I'm using the Microsoft Bot Framework with Cognitive Services to generate images from a source image that the user uploads via the bot. I'm using C#.
The Cognitive Services API returns a byte[]
or a Stream
representing the treated image.
How can I send that image directly to my user? All the docs and samples seem to point to me having to host the image as a publically addressable URL and send a link. I can do this but I'd rather not.
Does anyone know how to simple return the image, kind of like the Caption Bot does?
You should be able to use something like this:
var message = activity.CreateReply("");
message.Type = "message";
message.Attachments = new List<Attachment>();
var webClient = new WebClient();
byte[] imageBytes = webClient.DownloadData("https://placeholdit.imgix.net/~text?txtsize=35&txt=image-data&w=120&h=120");
string url = "data:image/png;base64," + Convert.ToBase64String(imageBytes)
message.Attachments.Add(new Attachment { ContentUrl = url, ContentType = "image/png" });
await _client.Conversations.ReplyToActivityAsync(message);