fix: inline device images as data URIs in offline SVG export

strip_svg_hyperlinks() removed every href, including on <image>
elements that reference device-type photos, leaving devices with
images blank in the exported file. Non-anchor hrefs (currently only
<image>) are now resolved through an optional image_loader callback
and embedded as base64 data URIs instead of being stripped; anchor
unwrapping is unchanged. RackElevationOfflineSVGView wires this up to
NetBox's MEDIA storage.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

netbox_utilities/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from netbox.plugins import PluginConfig, get_plugin_config
 
-__version__ = "0.11.2"
+__version__ = "0.11.3"
 
 
 class NetBoxUtilitiesConfig(PluginConfig):

netbox_utilities/svg_export.py

@@ -7,20 +7,27 @@ ET.register_namespace("", SVG_NS)
 ET.register_namespace("xlink", XLINK_NS)
 
 _ANCHOR_TAGS = (f"{{{SVG_NS}}}a", "a")
+_IMAGE_TAGS = (f"{{{SVG_NS}}}image", "image")
 _HREF_ATTRS = ("href", f"{{{XLINK_NS}}}href")
 
 
-def strip_svg_hyperlinks(svg_source):
+def strip_svg_hyperlinks(svg_source, image_loader=None):
-    """Return svg_source with every <a> wrapper unwrapped and href/xlink:href removed.
+    """Return svg_source with every <a> wrapper unwrapped and dead links removed.
 
     NetBox wraps rack elevation devices in hyperlinks pointing at internal,
     relative object URLs. Those links are dead weight (and broken paths) once
-    the SVG is saved and opened outside of a NetBox session, so this produces
+    the SVG is saved and opened outside of a NetBox session, so this unwraps
-    a self-contained file with the same visuals but no link markup.
+    them while keeping their contents.
+
+    <image> elements reference device photos by the same kind of internal,
+    relative URL. Simply stripping their href would leave the device blank,
+    so image_loader (href -> "data:...;base64,..." or None) is used to embed
+    the image data directly instead. Without an image_loader, image hrefs are
+    left untouched.
     """
     root = ET.fromstring(svg_source)
     _unwrap_anchors(root)
-    _strip_href_attributes(root)
+    _resolve_hrefs(root, image_loader)
     return ET.tostring(root, encoding="unicode")
 
 
@@ -41,8 +48,20 @@ def _unwrap_anchors(parent):
             parent.append(child)
 
 
-def _strip_href_attributes(element):
+def _resolve_hrefs(element, image_loader):
-    for attr in _HREF_ATTRS:
+    if element.tag in _IMAGE_TAGS:
-        element.attrib.pop(attr, None)
+        if image_loader is not None:
+            for attr in _HREF_ATTRS:
+                href = element.attrib.get(attr)
+                if not href:
+                    continue
+                data_uri = image_loader(href)
+                if data_uri:
+                    element.attrib[attr] = data_uri
+                else:
+                    element.attrib.pop(attr, None)
+    else:
+        for attr in _HREF_ATTRS:
+            element.attrib.pop(attr, None)
     for child in element:
-        _strip_href_attributes(child)
+        _resolve_hrefs(child, image_loader)

netbox_utilities/tests/test_svg_export.py

@@ -19,16 +19,54 @@ class StripSvgHyperlinksTest(SimpleTestCase):
         self.assertNotIn("href", result)
         self.assertIn("<rect", result)
 
-    def test_removes_href_on_non_anchor_elements(self):
+    def test_removes_href_on_non_image_non_anchor_elements(self):
         svg = (
             '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" '
             'xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">'
-            '<image xlink:href="/static/logo.png" href="/static/logo.png"/>'
+            '<use xlink:href="#some-symbol" href="#some-symbol"/>'
             "</svg>"
         )
 
         result = strip_svg_hyperlinks(svg)
 
+        self.assertNotIn("href", result)
+        self.assertIn("<use", result)
+
+    def test_leaves_image_href_untouched_without_a_loader(self):
+        svg = (
+            '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" '
+            'xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">'
+            '<image xlink:href="/media/devicetype-images/example.png"/>'
+            "</svg>"
+        )
+
+        result = strip_svg_hyperlinks(svg)
+
+        self.assertIn("/media/devicetype-images/example.png", result)
+
+    def test_replaces_image_href_with_data_uri_from_loader(self):
+        svg = (
+            '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" '
+            'xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">'
+            '<image xlink:href="/media/devicetype-images/example.png"/>'
+            "</svg>"
+        )
+
+        result = strip_svg_hyperlinks(svg, image_loader=lambda href: "data:image/png;base64,AAAA")
+
+        self.assertIn("data:image/png;base64,AAAA", result)
+        self.assertNotIn("/media/devicetype-images/example.png", result)
+
+    def test_drops_image_href_when_loader_cannot_resolve_it(self):
+        svg = (
+            '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" '
+            'xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">'
+            '<image xlink:href="/media/devicetype-images/missing.png"/>'
+            "</svg>"
+        )
+
+        result = strip_svg_hyperlinks(svg, image_loader=lambda href: None)
+
         self.assertNotIn("href", result)
         self.assertIn("<image", result)
 

netbox_utilities/views.py

@@ -368,6 +368,37 @@ class SelectTenantView(LoginRequiredMixin, View):
         return redirect(_safe_return_url(request))
 
 
+def _media_data_uri_loader():
+    import base64
+    import mimetypes
+    from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
+    from django.conf import settings
+    from django.core.files.storage import default_storage
+
+    media_url_path = urlparse(settings.MEDIA_URL).path
+
+    def load(href):
+        storage_path = urlparse(href).path
+        if media_url_path and storage_path.startswith(media_url_path):
+            storage_path = storage_path[len(media_url_path) :]
+        storage_path = storage_path.lstrip("/")
+        try:
+            if not storage_path or not default_storage.exists(storage_path):
+                return None
+            with default_storage.open(storage_path, "rb") as image_file:
+                data = image_file.read()
+        except OSError:
+            return None
+
+        mime_type, _ = mimetypes.guess_type(storage_path)
+        mime_type = mime_type or "application/octet-stream"
+        encoded = base64.b64encode(data).decode("ascii")
+        return f"data:{mime_type};base64,{encoded}"
+
+    return load
+
+
 class RackElevationOfflineSVGView(LoginRequiredMixin, View):
     """Serve a rack elevation SVG stripped of hyperlinks, for offline use."""
 
@@ -394,7 +425,7 @@ class RackElevationOfflineSVGView(LoginRequiredMixin, View):
         if hasattr(response, "render"):
             response.render()
 
-        offline_svg = strip_svg_hyperlinks(response.content)
+        offline_svg = strip_svg_hyperlinks(response.content, image_loader=_media_data_uri_loader())
         filename = f"{rack.name}-{face}-offline.svg".replace(" ", "_")
         http_response = HttpResponse(offline_svg, content_type="image/svg+xml")
         http_response["Content-Disposition"] = f'attachment; filename="{filename}"'

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "netbox-utilities"
-version = "0.11.2"
+version = "0.11.3"
 description = "Navigation, tenant utilities, connection VLANs, partial-width racks, and bulk operations for NetBox 4.6/4.7"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"