Getting a REGEX too complicated error when trying to programmatically screenshot a page

Question

I have a requirement where I have to take a screenshot of multiple pages and store them in documents on the click of a button. I have everything working perfectly on a windows machine. But when I try it on a mac I get a REEGEX too complicated error when trying to screenshot a specific page. I am using HTML2CANVAS to take the screenshot, and then pass the blob value to my controller.

Here is the relevant controller code.

    transient public string strImageBlob {get;set;}
    transient public string strImagename {get;set;} 

    public void captureImage()
        {
            folderId = [SELECT ID 
                            FROM Folder 
                            WHERE NAME = 'DOC Folder'].Id;
            Document d = new Document(); 
            d.Name = strImagename+'.png';         
            d.Body = EncodingUtil.base64Decode(strImageBlob.replaceFirst('data:image/png;base64,','')); 
//Error occurs on the above line ^^^^^^^
            d.ContentType = 'image/png';
            d.FolderId = folderId;
            d.IsPublic = true;
            insert d;
            RelateListSnapCntrl.saveRecIdinCookie(d.Id);
            system.debug('\n--d---'+d);
        }

The error occurs in the line indicated above. It seems to occur only in a Mac (or possibly in computers with higher resolution monitors). Is there a way I can handle this error?

Error:

Answer 1

A typical reason for regex too complicated is when the target string is > 1 MB

The String class has three methods:

• someString.replace(target,replacement)
• someString.replaceAll(regex,replacement)
• someString.replaceFirst(regex,replacement)

Your application is trying to replace data:image/png;base64, with simply ,

If your application is OK with replacing all of data:image/png;base64, with ,, then use the replace(target,replacement) method as it doesn't use regex

Example:

someString.replace('data:image/png;base64,',',');