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Sven Van Caekenberghe-2

Fun with UI Avatars

I came across https://ui-avatars.com, a web service that creates avatar images based on some parameters.

From Pharo, the shortest invocation would be something like

ZnEasy getPng: 'https://ui-avatars.com/api?name=Albert+Einstein&size=128&background=0D8ABC&color=fff&rounded=true'.

Making use of the full builder interface of ZnClient that would look more like

ZnClient new
https;
host: 'ui-avatars.com';
addPath: #api;
queryAt: #name put: 'Albert Einstein';
queryAt: #size put: 128;
queryAt: #color put: 'FFF';
queryAt: #background put: '0D8ABC';
queryAt: #rounded put: true;
accept: ZnMimeType imagePng;
enforceHttpSuccess: true;
enforceAcceptContentType: true;
contentReader: [ :entity | ImageReadWriter formFromStream: entity readStream ];
beOneShot;
get.

Anyway, it is cool to have an environment that makes this kind of experimentation so much fun.

It is probably easy to implement this avatar image generation directly in Pharo ...

Sven