def load_image_bytes()

in backend/matching-engine/services/multimodal_embedding_client.py [0:0]

• 8 lines of code
• 4 McCabe index (conditional complexity)

def load_image_bytes(image_uri: str) -> bytes:
    """Load image bytes from a remote or local URI."""
    if image_uri.startswith("http://") or image_uri.startswith("https://"):
        response = requests.get(image_uri, stream=True)
        if response.status_code == 200:
            image_bytes = response.content
    else:
        image_bytes = open(image_uri, "rb").read()
    return image_bytes