API access — StableDiffusion Pipe .images returning array of temp paths

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I am using “stabilityai/stable-diffusion-2-inpainting” to create a pipe, StableDiffusionInpaintPipeline

In my function, when I provide a prompt and image and other values to the pipe, including num_images_per_prompt=1, I read .images and return a single image, pipe(...).images[0]

When I do this, and call my function via API, I get a base64 encoded image raw data returned.

Now, I change the function so that the pipe has num_images_per_prompt=4 and I have the function return the entire .images array from the pipe instead of just images[0], but this time what gets returned to my API call is an array of dictionaries to temp paths, like so:

{
    name: '/tmp/tmpqly2vjav/tmpm871xpz6.png',
    data: null,
    is_file: true
  },
  {
    name: '/tmp/tmpqly2vjav/tmpzcfmjfp1.png',
    data: null,
    is_file: true
  },
  {
    name: '/tmp/tmpqly2vjav/tmpxnisb_oi.png',
    data: null,
    is_file: true
  },
  {
    name: '/tmp/tmpqly2vjav/tmp76mdtjlq.png',
    data: null,
    is_file: true
  }

I don’t know how to get the files from this array of dictionaries, I was hoping an array of raw base64 data would be returned, since when I used num_images_per_prompt=1 and returned pipe(...).images[0] it did this.

Any ideas?