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React image element referenced

Time:01-10

I am converting an application over from jquery to react and I have a Kjua QR code component that I'm working on. My previous code creates the Kjua element in javascript

const qrcode = kjua({
    text: target_url,
    render: 'svg',
    size: 200,
    mode: 'image',
    ecLevel: 'Q',
    mSize: 25,
    quiet: 2,
    image: document.getElementById("logo"),
});

This references a 'logo' image in the DOM that references an SVG.

converting this over to react, I found the Kjua-react wrapper to use the library within react. Setting this up without the image overlay works fine:

function QRCode() {
    const target_url = 'something';
    return <Kjua text={target_url} render="svg" size="200" ecLevel="Q" mSize="25" quiet="2"/>;
}

ReactDOM.render(<QRCode />, document.getElementById("root"));

But I'm not sure how to reference the logo within react, and introducing the image overlay like the following:

function QRCode() {
    const target_url = 'something';
    return <Kjua text={target_url} render="svg" size="200" ecLevel="Q" mSize="25" quiet="2" mode="image" image="document.getElementById('logo')"/>;
}

ReactDOM.render(<QRCode />, document.getElementById("root"));

Gives the following error:

Uncaught TypeError: t.getAttribute is not a function
The above error occurred in the <Kjua> component
Uncaught TypeError: t.getAttribute is not a function

How do you render the image or create an HTMLImageElement and reference that within a react component?

Thanks.

CodePudding user response:

There are several ways:

The first. Pass image node through the props to target component

function QRCode({image}) {
    const target_url = 'something';
    return <Kjua text={target_url} render="svg" size="200" ecLevel="Q" mSize="25" quiet="2" mode="image" image={image}/>;
}

const image = document.getElementById('logo')
ReactDOM.render(<QRCode image={image}/>, document.getElementById("root"));

The second. Because sometimes it's not so trivial to pass a props you can just get reference to image node inside react component itself

function QRCode() {
    const target_url = 'something';
    const [image, setImage] = useState(null);
    useEffect(() => {
        setImage(document.getElementById('logo'))
    }, [])
    return image ? <Kjua text={target_url} render="svg" size="200" ecLevel="Q" mSize="25" quiet="2" mode="image" image={image}/> : null;
}

ReactDOM.render(<QRCode/>, document.getElementById("root"));

The third. If you are sure that when you render an element you have access to DOM you can replace useEffect on useMemo to get image synchronously

function QRCode() {
    const target_url = 'something';
    const image = useMemo(() => document.getElementById('logo'), [])
    return <Kjua text={target_url} render="svg" size="200" ecLevel="Q" mSize="25" quiet="2" mode="image" image={image}/>;
}

ReactDOM.render(<QRCode/>, document.getElementById("root"));

P.s. The problem in your code that you pass to image prop string and kjua code behind react Kjua expect that image would be a DOM Element, so this is why you get exception.

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