Image: data url support

Data url format is useful when one tries slintpad with images.

Image {
    source: @image-url("data:image/png;base64,iV....=");
}

Author: task-jp

api/cpp/cbindgen.rs

@@ -387,6 +387,7 @@ fn gen_corelib(
         "slint_image_size",
         "slint_image_path",
         "slint_image_load_from_path",
+        "slint_image_load_from_data_url",
         "slint_image_load_from_embedded_data",
         "slint_image_from_embedded_textures",
         "slint_image_compare_equal",
@@ -501,6 +502,7 @@ fn gen_corelib(
                 "slint_image_size",
                 "slint_image_path",
                 "slint_image_load_from_path",
+                "slint_image_load_from_data_url",
                 "slint_image_load_from_embedded_data",
                 "slint_image_from_embedded_textures",
                 "slint_image_compare_equal",
@@ -593,6 +595,7 @@ fn gen_corelib(
             "slint_image_size",
             "slint_image_path",
             "slint_image_load_from_path",
+            "slint_image_load_from_data_url",
             "slint_image_load_from_embedded_data",
             "slint_image_set_nine_slice_edges",
             "slint_image_to_rgb8",

api/cpp/include/slint_image.h

@@ -130,6 +130,14 @@ struct Image
         cbindgen_private::types::slint_image_load_from_path(&file_path, &img.data);
         return img;
     }
+
+    /// Load an image from data url
+    [[nodiscard]] static Image load_from_data_url(const SharedString &data_url)
+    {
+        Image img;
+        cbindgen_private::types::slint_image_load_from_data_url(&data_url, &img.data);
+        return img;
+    }
 #endif
 
     /// Constructs a new Image from an existing OpenGL texture. The texture remains borrowed by

internal/compiler/generator/cpp.rs

@@ -3249,7 +3249,13 @@ fn compile_expression(expr: &llr::Expression, ctx: &EvaluationContext) -> String
         Expression::ImageReference { resource_ref, nine_slice }  => {
             let image = match resource_ref {
                 crate::expression_tree::ImageReference::None => r#"slint::Image()"#.to_string(),
-                crate::expression_tree::ImageReference::AbsolutePath(path) => format!(r#"slint::Image::load_from_path(slint::SharedString(u8"{}"))"#, escape_string(path.as_str())),
+                crate::expression_tree::ImageReference::AbsolutePath(path) => {
+                    if path.starts_with("data:") {
+                        format!(r#"slint::Image::load_from_data_url(u8"{}")"#, escape_string(path.as_str()))
+                    } else {
+                        format!(r#"slint::Image::load_from_path(u8"{}")"#, escape_string(path.as_str()))
+                    }
+                }
                 crate::expression_tree::ImageReference::EmbeddedData { resource_id, extension } => {
                     let symbol = format!("slint_embedded_resource_{}", resource_id);
                     format!(r#"slint::private_api::load_image_from_embedded_data({symbol}, "{}")"#, escape_string(extension))

internal/compiler/generator/rust.rs

@@ -2417,7 +2417,11 @@ fn compile_expression(expr: &Expression, ctx: &EvaluationContext) -> TokenStream
                 }
                 crate::expression_tree::ImageReference::AbsolutePath(path) => {
                     let path = path.as_str();
-                    quote!(sp::Image::load_from_path(::std::path::Path::new(#path)).unwrap_or_default())
+                    if path.starts_with("data:") {
+                        quote!(sp::Image::load_from_data_url(#path).unwrap_or_default())
+                    } else {
+                        quote!(sp::Image::load_from_path(::std::path::Path::new(#path)).unwrap_or_default())
+                    }
                 }
                 crate::expression_tree::ImageReference::EmbeddedData { resource_id, extension } => {
                     let symbol = format_ident!("SLINT_EMBEDDED_RESOURCE_{}", resource_id);

internal/compiler/passes/resolving.rs

@@ -361,7 +361,14 @@ impl Expression {
     fn from_at_image_url_node(node: syntax_nodes::AtImageUrl, ctx: &mut LookupCtx) -> Self {
         let s = match node
             .child_text(SyntaxKind::StringLiteral)
-            .and_then(|x| crate::literals::unescape_string(&x))
+            .and_then(|x|
+                if x.starts_with("\"data:") {
+                    // Remove quotes here because unescape_string() doesn't support \n yet.
+                    let x = x.strip_prefix('"')?;
+                    let x = x.strip_suffix('"')?;
+                    Some(SmolStr::new(x))
+                } else { crate::literals::unescape_string(&x) }
+            )
         {
             Some(s) => s,
             None => {

internal/core/Cargo.toml

@@ -105,6 +105,7 @@ web-sys = { workspace = true, features = [ "HtmlImageElement" ] }
 
 [target.'cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))'.dependencies]
 fontdb = { workspace = true, optional = true, default-features = true }
+dataurl = "0.1.2"
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 slint = { path = "../../api/rs/slint", default-features = false, features = ["std", "compat-1-2"] }

internal/core/graphics/image.rs

@@ -671,6 +671,14 @@ impl Image {
         })
     }
 
+    #[cfg(feature = "image-decoders")]
+    /// Load an Image from a data url
+    pub fn load_from_data_url(data_url: &str) -> Result<Self, LoadImageError> {
+        self::cache::IMAGE_CACHE.with(|global_cache| {
+            global_cache.borrow_mut().load_image_from_data_url(&data_url).ok_or(LoadImageError(()))
+        })
+    }
+
     /// Creates a new Image from the specified shared pixel buffer, where each pixel has three color
     /// channels (red, green and blue) encoded as u8.
     pub fn from_rgb8(buffer: SharedPixelBuffer<Rgb8Pixel>) -> Self {
@@ -1274,6 +1282,15 @@ pub(crate) mod ffi {
         )
     }
 
+    #[cfg(feature = "image-decoders")]
+    #[no_mangle]
+    pub unsafe extern "C" fn slint_image_load_from_data_url(data_url: &SharedString, image: *mut Image) {
+        core::ptr::write(
+            image,
+            Image::load_from_data_url(data_url.as_str()).unwrap_or(Image::default()),
+        )
+    }
+
     #[cfg(feature = "std")]
     #[no_mangle]
     pub unsafe extern "C" fn slint_image_load_from_embedded_data(

internal/core/graphics/image/cache.rs

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ This module contains image and caching related types for the run-time library.
 
 use super::{CachedPath, Image, ImageCacheKey, ImageInner, SharedImageBuffer, SharedPixelBuffer};
 use crate::{slice::Slice, SharedString};
+#[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+use dataurl::DataUrl;
 
 struct ImageWeightInBytes;
 
@@ -110,6 +112,59 @@ impl ImageCache {
         });
     }
 
+    pub(crate) fn load_image_from_data_url(&mut self, str: &str) -> Option<Image> {
+        let cache_key = ImageCacheKey::Path(CachedPath::new(str));
+        #[cfg(target_arch = "wasm32")]
+        return self.lookup_image_in_cache_or_create(cache_key, |_| {
+            return Some(ImageInner::HTMLImage(vtable::VRc::new(
+                super::htmlimage::HTMLImage::new(&str),
+            )));
+        });
+        #[cfg(not(target_arch = "wasm32"))]
+        return self.lookup_image_in_cache_or_create(cache_key, |cache_key| {
+            let data_url = DataUrl::parse(&str).unwrap();
+            let media_type = data_url.get_media_type();
+            if !media_type.starts_with("image/") {
+                eprintln!("Unsupported media type: {}", media_type);
+                return None;
+            }
+            let media_type = media_type.split('/').nth(1).unwrap_or("");
+
+            let text = data_url.get_text();
+            let data = if data_url.get_is_base64_encoded() {
+                data_url.get_data()
+            } else {
+                text.as_bytes()
+            };
+
+            if cfg!(feature = "svg") && (media_type == ("svg+xml") || media_type == "svgz+xml") {
+                return Some(ImageInner::Svg(vtable::VRc::new(
+                    super::svg::load_from_data(data, cache_key).map_or_else(
+                        |err| {
+                            eprintln!("Error loading SVG from {}: {}", &str, err);
+                            None
+                        },
+                        Some,
+                    )?,
+                )));
+            }
+
+            let format = image::ImageFormat::from_extension(media_type);
+            image::load_from_memory_with_format(data, format.unwrap()).map_or_else(
+                |decode_err| {
+                    eprintln!("Error loading image from {}: {}", &str, decode_err);
+                    None
+                },
+                |image| {
+                    Some(ImageInner::EmbeddedImage {
+                        cache_key,
+                        buffer: dynamic_image_to_shared_image_buffer(image),
+                    })
+                },
+            )
+        });
+    }
+
     pub(crate) fn load_image_from_embedded_data(
         &mut self,
         data: Slice<'static, u8>,

internal/interpreter/eval.rs

@@ -272,17 +272,21 @@ pub fn eval_expression(expression: &Expression, local_context: &mut EvalLocalCon
                     Ok(Default::default())
                 }
                 i_slint_compiler::expression_tree::ImageReference::AbsolutePath(path) => {
-                    let path = std::path::Path::new(path);
-                    if path.starts_with("builtin:/") {
-                        i_slint_compiler::fileaccess::load_file(path).and_then(|virtual_file| virtual_file.builtin_contents).map(|virtual_file| {
-                            let extension = path.extension().unwrap().to_str().unwrap();
-                            corelib::graphics::load_image_from_embedded_data(
-                                corelib::slice::Slice::from_slice(virtual_file),
-                                corelib::slice::Slice::from_slice(extension.as_bytes())
-                            )
-                        }).ok_or_else(Default::default)
+                    if path.starts_with("data:") {
+                        corelib::graphics::Image::load_from_data_url(path)
                     } else {
-                        corelib::graphics::Image::load_from_path(path)
+                        let path = std::path::Path::new(path);
+                        if path.starts_with("builtin:/") {
+                            i_slint_compiler::fileaccess::load_file(path).and_then(|virtual_file| virtual_file.builtin_contents).map(|virtual_file| {
+                                let extension = path.extension().unwrap().to_str().unwrap();
+                                corelib::graphics::load_image_from_embedded_data(
+                                    corelib::slice::Slice::from_slice(virtual_file),
+                                    corelib::slice::Slice::from_slice(extension.as_bytes())
+                                )
+                            }).ok_or_else(Default::default)
+                        } else {
+                            corelib::graphics::Image::load_from_path(path)
+                        }
                     }
                 }
                 i_slint_compiler::expression_tree::ImageReference::EmbeddedData { .. } => {

tests/cases/elements/image.slint

@@ -17,12 +17,23 @@ TestCase := Rectangle {
         source: @image-url("image.slint");
     }
 
+
     out property <image> with-border: @image-url("dog.jpg", nine-slice(12 13 14 15));
 
+    out property <image> data-url-plain-text: @image-url("data:,Hello%2C%20World%21");
+
+    // slint-logo-small-light.png
+    out property <image> data-url-image-png-base64: @image-url("data:image/png;base64,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");
+
+    out property <image> data-url-image-svg: @image-url("data:image/svg+xml,%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%20encoding%3D%22utf-8%22%3F%3E%0A%3Csvg%20version%3D%221.1%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%20width%3D%22100%22%20height%3D%2295%22%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%2095%22%3E%0A%3Cpolygon%20fill%3D%22%23231815%22%20points%3D%2250%2C0%2065.451%2C31.271%20100%2C36.287%2075%2C60.629%2080.902%2C95%2050%2C78.771%2019.098%2C95%2025%2C60.629%200%2C36.287%20%0A%0934.549%2C31.271%20%22%2F%3E%0A%3C%2Fsvg%3E");
+
     property <length> img_width: img.width;
     property <length> img_height: img.height;
+    property <bool> data-url: data-url-plain-text.width == 0 && data-url-plain-text.height == 0 &&
+        data-url-image-png-base64.width == 128 && data-url-image-png-base64.height == 128 &&
+        data-url-image-svg.width > 0 && data-url-image-svg.height > 0;
     property <bool> test: img2.source-clip-height * 1px == img2.height && img2.source-clip-width * 1px == img2.width &&
-         img2.width/1px == img2.source.width - 20 && img3.source.width == 0 && img3.source.height == 0;
+         img2.width/1px == img2.source.width - 20 && img3.source.width == 0 && img3.source.height == 0 && data-url;
 }
 
 /*