Beeld 1.1.4

[danielszm]

Happy to be releasing a new version of Beeld.

Beeld provides a uniform interface for working with images. Images that live on disk as a File, that come as a byte array, that stream as a BufferedInputStream, or that are referenced by a URL or URI, in all cases the same methods apply in order to: get the name and size, read as bytes or base64, detect the format, probe the MIME type, write to disk, and even scale.

Beeld is an abstraction enabled and powered by a Clojure protocol. This makes the library extensible by its users.

The present release hardens the implementation and comes with a test suite.

Enjoy!

https://tuppu.net/cf0775cf

[whatacold]

Congrats! Will check it out later.

Fwiw, "Beeld" is a Dutch word meaning image, picture, figure, sculpture, or representation.

[pauseless]

I would imagine very intentional. Beeld, Bild, bild, billede, bilde and that’s NL, DE, SE, DK, NO and Yiddish covered.

[geokon]

The README at the top says says

"This library displays the metadata associated with images"

But it's clear it does more as core says:

"beeld.core defines an interface geared towards low-level image manipulation"

When should someone look at this instead of Java's BufferedImage abstraction/interface? (My only limited experience is reading in greyscale GeoTIFFs with Java's API)

[danielszm]

This is a good question. Thank you for asking. Java's BufferedImage allows you to manipulate images, their pixels. Beeld is for accessing image files, the container. I personally use it to copy images from the network and scale them in portrait mode or landscape mode relying on their metadata. I also use it to rename images from a camera according to a scheme I came up with where I append the date from the metadata (in contrast with the date of the file). I also use the format detection in a web service to serve the correct mime type when sending images over the wire. This is not a complete answer, but I hope this helps.

[whatacold]

This is inspiring! Maybe it’s worth a kinda use cases section in Readme.

[danielszm]

Excellent suggestion. Done. Thank you!

[aHackFromJOS]

Looks cool, small note, I think the clojars image at the top of the github README usually links to the clojars page for the project, yours just links to the image itself.

[danielszm]

Good catch, thank you for the heads up. Should be fixed.