Hi, I'm new to retool and struggling with a seemingly simple task: displaying an image (JPG/PNG) fetched from S3. Using the "Read a file from S3" action in my S3 resource, I can get the image file. However, the data is marked as binary (Content-Type is "binary/octet-stream") but it looks like it h…

@ftruzzi full circle, I'm building an internal app right now and dealing with this problem myself :man_facepalming: I've been able to get it to work by just using the Body value directly as Base64 without converting it. Either way, I wrote a bigger guide with a couple of other methods here: How do …

Displaying an image from S3

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ftruzzi November 17, 2020, 12:41am 2

I just wanted to add that selecting "Download file from S3" returns what I'm looking for (the image, encoded in base64). However, this is not in the "data" property accessible from Retool. Screenshot from Chrome dev tools:

Dynamic Image Display based on Selection in Table

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Displaying an image from S3

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