any way to send `BufferedImage` over websocket eff...

# ktor

[Ananiya]

any way to send BufferedImage over websocket efficiently
1 tried to deserilize the constructor using GSON because it has nested object resulting the https://stackoverflow.com/questions/43301580/gson-cant-serialize-bufferedimages
2 tried kotlinx serilization , doesn't work since BufferedImage has no @Serilizable annotation
3 tried converting buffered image -> float array -> to string(using joinToString) kind of worked but its super slow and unresponsive
4 tried converting buffered image -> bytearray using ByteArrayOutputStream and ImageIO.write() has made significant improvement but still unusable
I don't think the IO method would be any efficient but if there's any way to send the whole BufferedImage object or deserilizing it without using IO would be take less time

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Could you please clarify why the solution 4 is unusable?

[Ananiya]

Thanks @Aleksei Tirman [JB] for the response
It's because one is it take like minutes to process the
The idea is to send continuous frame from the webcam -> ktor server -> ktor client
first 3 frames even if we don't take such phenomenon in an account there's one major problems and it was after those frames are loaded it would smooth out but also the loaded frame are a minute apart than the frame that was sent by the server

[Aleksei Tirman [JB]]

Is it possible to read raw data (without BufferedImage) from the webcam to send it over a Websocket connection?

[Ananiya]

There was variable which return ByteBuffer but was empty