How to convert uint8 Array to base64 Encoded Strin

问题:

I got a webSocket comunication, I recieve base64 encoded string, convert it to uint8 and work on it, but now I need to send back, I got the uint8 array, and need to convert it to base64 string, so I can send it. How can I make this convertion?

回答1:

All solutions already proposed have severe problems. Some solutions fail to work on large arrays, some provide wrong output, some throw an error on btoa call if an intermediate string contains multibyte characters, some consume more memory than needed.

So I implemented a direct conversion function which just works regardless of the input. It converts about 5 million bytes per second on my machine.

https://gist.github.com/enepomnyaschih/72c423f727d395eeaa09697058238727

回答2:

If your data may contain multi-byte sequences (not a plain ASCII sequence) and your browser has TextDecoder, then you should use that to decode your data (specify the required encoding for the TextDecoder):

var u8 = new Uint8Array([65, 66, 67, 68]);
var decoder = new TextDecoder('utf8');
var b64encoded = btoa(decoder.decode(u8));

If you need to support browsers that do not have TextDecoder (currently just IE and Edge), then the best option is to use a TextDecoder polyfill.

If your data contains plain ASCII (not multibyte Unicode/UTF-8) then there is a simple alternative using String.fromCharCode that should be fairly universally supported:

var ascii = new Uint8Array([65, 66, 67, 68]);
var b64encoded = btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, ascii));

And to decode the base64 string back to a Uint8Array:

var u8_2 = new Uint8Array(atob(b64encoded).split("").map(function(c) {
    return c.charCodeAt(0); }));

If you have very large array buffers then the apply may fail and you may need to chunk the buffer (based on the one posted by @RohitSengar). Again, note that this is only correct if your buffer only contains non-multibyte ASCII characters:

function Uint8ToString(u8a){
  var CHUNK_SZ = 0x8000;
  var c = [];
  for (var i=0; i < u8a.length; i+=CHUNK_SZ) {
    c.push(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, u8a.subarray(i, i+CHUNK_SZ)));
  }
  return c.join("");
}
// Usage
var u8 = new Uint8Array([65, 66, 67, 68]);
var b64encoded = btoa(Uint8ToString(u8));

回答3:

Very simple solution and test for JavaScript!

ToBase64 = function (u8) {
    return btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, u8));
}

FromBase64 = function (str) {
    return atob(str).split('').map(function (c) { return c.charCodeAt(0); });
}

var u8 = new Uint8Array(256);
for (var i = 0; i < 256; i++)
    u8[i] = i;

var b64 = ToBase64(u8);
console.debug(b64);
console.debug(FromBase64(b64));

回答4:

function Uint8ToBase64(u8Arr){
  var CHUNK_SIZE = 0x8000; //arbitrary number
  var index = 0;
  var length = u8Arr.length;
  var result = '';
  var slice;
  while (index < length) {
    slice = u8Arr.subarray(index, Math.min(index + CHUNK_SIZE, length)); 
    result += String.fromCharCode.apply(null, slice);
    index += CHUNK_SIZE;
  }
  return btoa(result);
}

You can use this function if you have a very large Uint8Array. This is for Javascript, can be useful in case of FileReader readAsArrayBuffer.

回答5:

EDIT 2019: I reviewed this and this is not a solution for sending images, only displaying them locally. The createObjectURL doesn't create base64 data, but a DOMString, which is simply a short browser-specific url you can use in img.src or similar.

---

I'll add another solution that works with non-printable ranges. This is way faster than chaining TextEncoder and btoa when all you need is to display an image received as a byte array.

var blob = new Blob( [ uint8ArrayBuffer ], { type: "image/jpeg" } );
var imageUrl = URL.createObjectURL( blob );

This is using HTML5 APIs, and so will not work on Node or other JS based servers, of course. You can see a demo here.

回答6:

If you are using Node.js then you can use this code to convert Uint8Array to base64

var b64 = Buffer.from(u8).toString('base64');

回答7:

See here https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Base64_encoding_and_decoding#Appendix.3A_Decode_a_Base64_string_to_Uint8Array_or_ArrayBuffer

(Decode a Base64 string to Uint8Array or ArrayBuffer with Unicode support)

回答8:

Here is a JS Function to this:

This function is needed because Chrome doesn't accept a base64 encoded string as value for applicationServerKey in pushManager.subscribe yet https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=802280

function urlBase64ToUint8Array(base64String) {
  var padding = '='.repeat((4 - base64String.length % 4) % 4);
  var base64 = (base64String + padding)
    .replace(/\-/g, '+')
    .replace(/_/g, '/');

  var rawData = window.atob(base64);
  var outputArray = new Uint8Array(rawData.length);

  for (var i = 0; i < rawData.length; ++i) {
    outputArray[i] = rawData.charCodeAt(i);
  }
  return outputArray;
}

回答9:

A very good approach to this is shown at the Mozilla Developer Network website:

function btoaUTF16 (sString) {
    var aUTF16CodeUnits = new Uint16Array(sString.length);
    Array.prototype.forEach.call(aUTF16CodeUnits, function (el, idx, arr) { arr[idx] = sString.charCodeAt(idx); });
    return btoa(String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint8Array(aUTF16CodeUnits.buffer)));
}

function atobUTF16 (sBase64) {
    var sBinaryString = atob(sBase64), aBinaryView = new Uint8Array(sBinaryString.length);
    Array.prototype.forEach.call(aBinaryView, function (el, idx, arr) { arr[idx] = sBinaryString.charCodeAt(idx); });
    return String.fromCharCode.apply(null, new Uint16Array(aBinaryView.buffer));
}

var myString = "☸☹☺☻☼☾☿";

var sUTF16Base64 = btoaUTF16(myString);
console.log(sUTF16Base64);    // Shows "OCY5JjomOyY8Jj4mPyY="

var sDecodedString = atobUTF16(sUTF16Base64);
console.log(sDecodedString);  // Shows "☸☹☺☻☼☾☿"

回答10:

If all you want is a JS implementation of a base64-encoder, so that you can send data back, you can try the btoa function.

b64enc = btoa(uint);

A couple of quick notes on btoa - it's non-standard, so browsers aren't forced to support it. However, most browsers do. The big ones, at least. atob is the opposite conversion.

If you need a different implementation, or you find an edge-case where the browser has no idea what you're talking about, searching for a base64 encoder for JS wouldn't be too hard.

I think there are 3 of them hanging around on my company's website, for some reason...

回答11:

npm install google-closure-library --save

require("google-closure-library");
goog.require('goog.crypt.base64');

var result =goog.crypt.base64.encodeByteArray(Uint8Array.of(1,83,27,99,102,66));
console.log(result);

$node index.js would write AVMbY2Y= to the console.