How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?

[gunraidan]

I understand that displaying an image via requests:

import requests
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import QApplication, QWidget, QLabel
from PyQt6.QtGui import QImage, QPixmap

app = QApplication([])

url_image = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/sprites/master/sprites/pokemon/other/official-artwork/25.png"

image = QImage()
image.loadFromData(requests.get(url_image).content)

image_label = QLabel()
image_label.setPixmap(QPixmap(image))
image_label.show()

app.exec()

But I'm curious how this transfers to QNetwork Access Manager, especially since it seems to operate different from requests.

[SGaist]

Hi,

QNetworkAccessManager is asynchronous therefore, you need to use a slot to retrieve the data once the request is finished and then set it on the image.

[gunraidan]

@SGaist I apologize that the code below is crap but it's difficult to find any information on how to code a url image display from QNAM.

I've coded the below:

import sys
from PyQt6 import QtNetwork
from PyQt6.QtGui import*
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import*
from PyQt6 import QtCore
from PyQt6.QtCore import pyqtSignal, QUrl

class MainWindow(QWidget):
    image_get = pyqtSignal(name= 'imageGet')
    
    def __init__ (self):
        super().__init__()
        self.setWindowTitle("Show Image")
        self.start_button()
        self.setGeometry(200,300,400,500)
        self.image_screen = QLabel(self)
        self.image_screen.setPixmap(QPixmap())
        self.image_screen.setGeometry(180, -25, 200, 300)
        self.imageGet.connect(self.show_image)
        self.manager = QtNetwork.QNetworkAccessManager()
        self.show()
        
    def start_button(self):
        self.button_s = QPushButton(self)
        self.button_s.clicked.connect(self.start_button_click)
        self.button_s.setText("Start")
        self.button_s.setStyleSheet("QPushButton"
                               "{"
                               "background:red;}"
                               "QPushButton:pressed"
                               "{"
                               "background:green;}"
                               )                 
        self.button_s.resize (48,48)
        self.button_s.move(170,412)

    def start_button_click(self):
        url = "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/25"
        self.site_request(url)
        
    def site_request(self, url):
        req = QtNetwork.QNetworkRequest(QUrl(url))
        self.nam = QtNetwork.QNetworkAccessManager()
        self.nam.finished.connect(self.handle_request)
        self.nam.get(req)
        
    def handle_request(self, reply):
            json2qt = QtCore.QJsonDocument.fromJson 
            er = reply.error()
            if er == QtNetwork.QNetworkReply.NetworkError.NoError:
                qbyte = reply.readAll()
                self.json = json2qt(qbyte)
                self.image_get.emit()
            else:
                print ("Error")
                print(reply.errorString())
    
    def sprite_find_official(dict):
        return dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"].toString()

                
    def show_image(self):
        json_dict = self.json
        url_image = MainWindow.sprite_find_official(json_dict)
        image = QImage()
        image.loadFromData(url_image)
        QPixmap.loadFromData(image)
        image_label = QLabel()
        image_label.setPixmap(QPixmap(image))
        

if __name__ == '__main__':  
    app = QApplication(sys.argv) 
    ex = MainWindow()        
    code = app.exec()
    sys.exit(code)

After hitting the "start button" the program automatically exits out (crashes) and I receive this Traceback:
Traceback (most recent call last):

File "c:\Users\Nader\OneDrive\Desktop\Coding\testing.py", line 68, in show_image
  image.loadFromData(url_image)
TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
loadFromData(self, PyQt6.sip.array[bytes], format: str = None): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'
loadFromData(self, QByteArray, format: str = None): argument 1 has unexpected type 'str'

Taking the toString() off of:

def sprite_find_official(dict):
        return dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"]

Results in a similar Traceback:

  File "c:\Users\Nader\OneDrive\Desktop\Coding\testing.py", line 67, in show_image
    image.loadFromData(url_image)
TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
  loadFromData(self, PyQt6.sip.array[bytes], format: str = None): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QJsonValue'
  loadFromData(self, QByteArray, format: str = None): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QJsonValue'

[JonB]

@gunraidan
image.loadFromData(url_image) apparently expects url_image to be a QByteArray or in Python somehting like a bytes array. Your value at dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"] is apparently a QJsonValue with a QJsonValue::String/str value instead. You need to address that. JSON does not even have a "bytes" value type. In your original code it looks like url_image was a URL string on which you did a GET request to get its content.

[gunraidan]

@JonB said in How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?:

@gunraidan
image.loadFromData(url_image) apparently expects url_image to be a QByteArray or in Python somehting like a bytes array. Your value at dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"] is apparently a QJsonValue with a QJsonValue::String/str value instead. You need to address that. JSON does not even have a "bytes" value type. In your original code it looks like url_image was a URL string on which you did a GET request to get its content.

I followed your advice in changing url_image1 to being a bytestype and added the line:url_image = QtCore.QByteArray(url_image)` to:

    def show_image(self):
        json_dict = self.json
        url_image = MainWindow.sprite_find_official(json_dict)
        image = QImage()
        url_image = QtCore.QByteArray(url_image)
        image.loadFromData(url_image)
        QPixmap.loadFromData(image)
        image_label = QLabel()
        image_label.setPixmap(QPixmap(image))

Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "c:\Users\Nader\OneDrive\Desktop\Coding\testing.py", line 68, in show_image
    image.loadFromData(url_image)
TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
  loadFromData(self, PyQt6.sip.array[bytes], format: str = None): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QJsonValue'

  loadFromData(self, QByteArray, format: str = None): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QJsonValue'

@JonB said in How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?:

@gunraidan
Your value at dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"] is apparently a QJsonValue with a QJsonValue::String/str value instead.

So I should do something like this for that function?

    def sprite_find_official(dict):
        return QtCore.QJsonValue(dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"])

This returns this Traceback:

TypeError: arguments did not match any overloaded call:
  QByteArray(): too many arguments
  QByteArray(int, bytes): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QJsonValue'
  QByteArray(QByteArray): argument 1 has unexpected type 'QJsonValue'

So I doubt that is what you wanted.

[JonB]

@gunraidan
In sprite_find_official(dict) what exactly does print dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"] show?

[gunraidan]

@JonB said in How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?:

@gunraidan
In sprite_find_official(dict) what exactly does print dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"] show?

When printed it shows:

<PyQt6.QtCore.QJsonValue object at 0x0000027D7D106730>

[JonB]

@gunraidan
So it is indeed not a byte array, hence the error message. You need to find out what it is. I think:

print dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"].type()

and see https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qjsonvalue.html#Type-enum. You are supposed to know what is there, I do not. If you got this code from somewhere you ought look at that. I previously said I don't see how JSON can have a value which is a byte array, so I do not know why you think it's OK to pass to QImage.loadFromData(). In your original code url_image was a string of the URL for an image, when did it become binary data?

[gunraidan]

@JonB said in How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?:

@gunraidan
So it is indeed not a byte array, hence the error message. You need to find out what it is. I think:

print dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"].type()

I get this:

Type.String

Now I'm confused why my initial coded didn't work since I initially had it convert it fully to a string

@JonB said in How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?:

I previously said I don't see how JSON can have a value which is a byte array, so I do not know why you think it's OK to pass to QImage.loadFromData(). In your original code url_image was a string of the URL for an image, when did it become binary data?

I assumed that's what you suggested from the bottom post:

@JonB said in How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?:

@gunraidan
image.loadFromData(url_image) apparently expects url_image to be a QByteArray or in Python somehting like a bytes array. Your value at dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"] is apparently a QJsonValue with a QJsonValue::String/str value instead.

[JonB]

@gunraidan

Type.String

Then print dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"].toString() should should you its value.

Can we take a step back? You started out with:

url_image = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/sprites/master/sprites/pokemon/other/official-artwork/25.png"

image = QImage()
image.loadFromData(requests.get(url_image).content)

You did not pass url_image directly to QImage.loadFromData() did you? You had to pass it to requests.get(url_image).content, to get the actual binary bytes for loadFromData().

But now you read url_image from the JSON you are passing it directly to loadFromData(). But if it's still a string URL you have not done the request.get() work at all? Hence all the error messages about passing a QJsonValue or "string" where "bytes" are expected.

Assuming your value from the JSON file is still a string like http://... --- only you know this, I do not --- you have to do the same image.loadFromData(requests.get(url_image).content) as you did before.

[gunraidan]

@JonB said in How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?:

@gunraidan

Type.String

Then print dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"].toString() should should you its value.

Can we take a step back? You started out with:

url_image = "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PokeAPI/sprites/master/sprites/pokemon/other/official-artwork/25.png"

image = QImage()
image.loadFromData(requests.get(url_image).content)

You did not pass url_image directly to QImage.loadFromData() did you? You had to pass it to requests.get(url_image).content, to get the actual binary bytes for loadFromData().

But now you read url_image from the JSON you are passing it directly to loadFromData(). But if it's still a string URL you have not done the request.get() work at all? Hence all the error messages about passing a QJsonValue or "string" where "bytes" are expected.

Assuming your value from the JSON file is still a string like http://... --- only you know this, I do not --- you have to do the same image.loadFromData(requests.get(url_image).content) as you did before.

Didn't know I still needed to use requests. This works:

import sys
import requests
from PyQt6 import QtNetwork
from PyQt6.QtGui import*
from PyQt6.QtWidgets import*
from PyQt6 import QtCore
from PyQt6.QtCore import pyqtSignal, QUrl

class MainWindow(QWidget):
    image_get = pyqtSignal(name= 'imageGet')
    
    def __init__ (self):
        super().__init__()
        self.setWindowTitle("Show Image")
        self.start_button()
        self.setGeometry(200,300,400,500)
        self.image_screen = QLabel(self)
        self.image_screen.setPixmap(QPixmap())
        self.image_screen.setGeometry(180, -25, 200, 300)
        self.imageGet.connect(self.show_image)
        self.manager = QtNetwork.QNetworkAccessManager()
        self.show()
        
    def start_button(self):
        self.button_s = QPushButton(self)
        self.button_s.clicked.connect(self.start_button_click)
        self.button_s.setText("Start")
        self.button_s.setStyleSheet("QPushButton"
                               "{"
                               "background:red;}"
                               "QPushButton:pressed"
                               "{"
                               "background:green;}"
                               )                 
        self.button_s.resize (48,48)
        self.button_s.move(170,412)

    def start_button_click(self):
        print("start")
        url = "https://pokeapi.co/api/v2/pokemon/25"
        self.site_request(url)
        
    def site_request(self, url):
        req = QtNetwork.QNetworkRequest(QUrl(url))
        self.nam = QtNetwork.QNetworkAccessManager()
        self.nam.finished.connect(self.handle_request)
        self.nam.get(req)
        
    def handle_request(self, reply):
            json2qt = QtCore.QJsonDocument.fromJson 
            er = reply.error()
            if er == QtNetwork.QNetworkReply.NetworkError.NoError:
                qbyte = reply.readAll()
                self.json = json2qt(qbyte)
                self.image_get.emit()
                self.image_label.show()
            else:
                print ("Error")
                print(reply.errorString())
    
    def sprite_find_official(dict):
        return dict["sprites"]["other"]["official-artwork"]["front_default"].toString()

                
    def show_image(self):
        json_dict = self.json
        url_image = MainWindow.sprite_find_official(json_dict)
        print(url_image)
        image = QImage()
        image.loadFromData(requests.get(url_image).content)
        self.image_label = QLabel()
        self.image_label.setPixmap(QPixmap(image))
        
        

if __name__ == '__main__':  
    app = QApplication(sys.argv) 
    ex = MainWindow()        
    code = app.exec()
    sys.exit(code)

[JonB]

@gunraidan said in How to display a url image in QNetwork Access Manager in PyQt6?:

Didn't know I still needed to use requests

I don't know why you would not think you still needed it!? :) If all you change is you started with a literal string url_image = "https:..." but now you read that string from a JSON file you still have just a string of the URL which you must request to get the content of the image file.