I am trying to pass the Microsoft Cognitive services facial API an image which the user has uploaded. The image is available on the server in the uploads folder.
Microsoft is expecting the image to be 'application/octet-stream' and passed as binary data.
I am currently unable to find a way to pass the image to the API that is satisfactory for it to be accepted and keep receiving "decoding error, image format unsupported". As far as im aware the image must be uploaded in blob or file format but being new to NodeJs im really unsure on how to achieve this.
So far i have this and have looked a few options but none have worked, the other options i tried returned simmilar errors such as 'file too small or large' but when ive manually tested the same image via Postman it works fine.
image.mv('./uploads/' + req.files.image.name , function(err) {
if (err)
return res.status(500).send(err);
});
var encodedImage = new Buffer(req.files.image.data, 'binary').toString('hex');
let addAPersonFace = cognitive.addAPersonFace(personGroupId, personId, encodedImage);
addAPersonFace.then(function(data) {
res.render('pages/persons/face', { data: data, personGroupId : req.params.persongroupid, personId : req.params.personid} );
})