How to compress of reduce the size of an image before uploading to Parse as PFFile? (Swift)

ghz 1years ago ⋅ 6002 views

Question

I was trying to upload an image file to Parse after taking photo directly on phone. But it throws an exception:

Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSInvalidArgumentException', reason: 'PFFile cannot be larger than 10485760 bytes'

Here is my code:

In first view controller:

override func prepareForSegue(segue: UIStoryboardSegue, sender: AnyObject?) {
    if (segue.identifier == "getImage")
    {
        var svc = segue.destinationViewController as! ClothesDetail
        svc.imagePassed = imageView.image
    }
}

In view controller that uploads image:

let imageData = UIImagePNGRepresentation(imagePassed)
let imageFile = PFFile(name: "\(picName).png", data: imageData)

var userpic = PFObject(className:"UserPic")
userpic["picImage"] = imageFile`

But I still need to upload that photo to Parse. Is there any way to reduce the size or resolution of the image?

Answer

Yes you can use UIImageJPEGRepresentation instead of UIImagePNGRepresentation to reduce your image file size. You can just create an extension UIImage as follow:

Xcode 8.2 • Swift 3.0.2

extension UIImage {
    enum JPEGQuality: CGFloat {
        case lowest  = 0
        case low     = 0.25
        case medium  = 0.5
        case high    = 0.75
        case highest = 1
    }

    /// Returns the data for the specified image in JPEG format.
    /// If the image object’s underlying image data has been purged, calling this function forces that data to be reloaded into memory.
    /// - returns: A data object containing the JPEG data, or nil if there was a problem generating the data. This function may return nil if the image has no data or if the underlying CGImageRef contains data in an unsupported bitmap format.
    func jpeg(_ quality: JPEGQuality) -> Data? {
        return UIImageJPEGRepresentation(self, quality.rawValue)
    }
}

edit/update:

Xcode 10 Swift 4.2

extension UIImage {
    enum JPEGQuality: CGFloat {
        case lowest  = 0
        case low     = 0.25
        case medium  = 0.5
        case high    = 0.75
        case highest = 1
    }

    /// Returns the data for the specified image in JPEG format.
    /// If the image object’s underlying image data has been purged, calling this function forces that data to be reloaded into memory.
    /// - returns: A data object containing the JPEG data, or nil if there was a problem generating the data. This function may return nil if the image has no data or if the underlying CGImageRef contains data in an unsupported bitmap format.
    func jpeg(_ jpegQuality: JPEGQuality) -> Data? {
        return jpegData(compressionQuality: jpegQuality.rawValue)
    }
}

Usage:

if let imageData = image.jpeg(.lowest) {
    print(imageData.count)
}
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