How can I use the <img> tag to display a local image in Go?
I've tried the following:
fmt.Fprintf(w, "</br><img src='" + path.Join(rootdir, fileName) + "' ></img>")
where rootdir = os.Getwd() and fileName is the name of the file.
If I try http.ServeFile with the same path then I can download the image, however I would like to embed it in the webpage itself.
I'll preface this by saying my Go knowledge is atrocious at best, but the few experiments I've done have involved this a bit, so maybe this will at least point you in the right direction. Basically, the below code uses a Handle for anything under /images/ that serves files from the images folder in your root directory (in my case it was /home/username/go). You can then either hardcode /images/ in your <img> tag, or use path.Join() as you did before, making images the first argument.
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"os"
"path"
)
func handler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
fileName := "testfile.jpg"
fmt.Fprintf(w, "<html></br><img src='/images/" + fileName + "' ></html>")
}
func main() {
rootdir, err := os.Getwd()
if err != nil {
rootdir = "No dice"
}
// Handler for anything pointing to /images/
http.Handle("/images/", http.StripPrefix("/images",
http.FileServer(http.Dir(path.Join(rootdir, "images/")))))
http.HandleFunc("/", handler)
http.ListenAndServe(":8080", nil)
}
Maybe you could use a data URI.