Cache Image about alfred-workflow

[deanishe]

Did you look at search.py in the same workflow? That's where it's used.

[deanishe]

Did you figure this out?

[mikemajara]

I have not been able to cache images and retrieve them. The code you point out to seems to cache images that are already written to disk and thumbnails are made from these. But, how would you cache a bytearray with the provided functions by Workflow3, and then pass it on to add_item with a normal path...?

If that is even possible with the library as is. I mean.

[deanishe]

The code you point out to seems to cache images that are already written to disk and thumbnails are made from these.

Yes, but it's very straightforward to adapt it to fetch a URL instead. All you have to do is replace the call to /usr/local/bin/gm with one to curl.

But, how would you cache a bytearray with the provided functions by Workflow3

You wouldn't. The built-in caching functions are for storing data structures, and the data are serialised to disk. All the on-disk files are in Python's pickle format.

If that is even possible with the library as is. I mean.

It doesn't provide a method to write a bunch of bytes as-is to disk, no. Why would it? That's what open is for.

[mikemajara]

Perfect! That got me on track. I thought I was missing something and that it might be possible to do with the pickling. Thanks a lot for the prompt response! 👍