Extract shared image utilities to reduce duplication

Move _ImageType alias and _get_image_data function to new _image_utils module and import from both vws.py and query.py, eliminating duplicate code.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Haiku 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: adamtheturtle

src/vws/_image_utils.py

@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+"""Image utility functions shared across VWS modules."""
+
+import io
+from typing import BinaryIO
+
+from beartype import beartype
+
+ImageType = io.BytesIO | BinaryIO
+
+
+@beartype
+def get_image_data(image: ImageType) -> bytes:
+    """Get the data of an image file."""
+    original_tell = image.tell()
+    image.seek(0)
+    image_data = image.read()
+    image.seek(original_tell)
+    return image_data

src/vws/query.py

@@ -1,15 +1,16 @@
 """Tools for interacting with the Vuforia Cloud Recognition Web APIs."""
 
 import datetime
-import io
 import json
 from http import HTTPMethod, HTTPStatus
-from typing import Any, BinaryIO
+from typing import Any
 
 from beartype import BeartypeConf, beartype
 from urllib3.filepost import encode_multipart_formdata
 from vws_auth_tools import authorization_header, rfc_1123_date
 
+from vws._image_utils import ImageType as _ImageType
+from vws._image_utils import get_image_data as _get_image_data
 from vws.exceptions.cloud_reco_exceptions import (
     AuthenticationFailureError,
     BadImageError,
@@ -25,18 +26,6 @@
 from vws.reports import QueryResult, TargetData
 from vws.transports import RequestsTransport, Transport
 
-_ImageType = io.BytesIO | BinaryIO
-
-
-@beartype
-def _get_image_data(image: _ImageType) -> bytes:
-    """Get the data of an image file."""
-    original_tell = image.tell()
-    image.seek(0)
-    image_data = image.read()
-    image.seek(original_tell)
-    return image_data
-
 
 @beartype(conf=BeartypeConf(is_pep484_tower=True))
 class CloudRecoService:

src/vws/vws.py

@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
 """Tools for interacting with Vuforia APIs."""
 
 import base64
-import io
 import json
 import time
 from datetime import date
 from http import HTTPMethod, HTTPStatus
-from typing import BinaryIO
 
 from beartype import BeartypeConf, beartype
 
+from vws._image_utils import ImageType as _ImageType
+from vws._image_utils import get_image_data as _get_image_data
 from vws._vws_request import target_api_request
 from vws.exceptions.custom_exceptions import (
     ServerError,
@@ -45,18 +45,6 @@
 from vws.response import Response
 from vws.transports import RequestsTransport, Transport
 
-_ImageType = io.BytesIO | BinaryIO
-
-
-@beartype
-def _get_image_data(image: _ImageType) -> bytes:
-    """Get the data of an image file."""
-    original_tell = image.tell()
-    image.seek(0)
-    image_data = image.read()
-    image.seek(original_tell)
-    return image_data
-
 
 @beartype(conf=BeartypeConf(is_pep484_tower=True))
 class VWS: