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tripp-bishop's avatar
tripp-bishop
Mentor
10 years ago

Uploading image to album from within an End Point

Hi,

 

I'm currently using a direct call to the following REST API method:

/users/id/${user.id}/media/albums/default/public/images/upload

 

to get an image uploaded to a user's album. What I'd like to do is wrap this call in an endpoint so that I can do some additional processing at the same time. I haven't found a way to get this to work, however. Is this possible or do I have to make this call directly in order to work properly? Thanks!

 

Cheers,

 

Tripp

  • VarunGrazitti's avatar
    VarunGrazitti
    Boss
    10 years ago

    tripp-bishop - Yes, you can add any custom code in your endpoint before the processing of image upload. You may create an Endpoint.

     

    //Code to process XYZ things

//Code to upload the image

//Code to process XYZ things

     

    • tripp-bishop's avatar
      tripp-bishop
      Mentor
      10 years ago

      VarunGrazitti Thanks! I'm running into an interesting issue:

      Here's the content of my test endpoint:

      <#assign status = "error" />
      <#assign message = "no errors" />
      <#assign upload_payload = http.request.parameters.name.get("image.content", "") />
      <#compress>
          <#attempt>
              <#assign response = rest("/users/id/${user.id}/media/albums/default/public/images/upload?image.content=${upload_payload}") />
              <#assign status = "success" />
          <#recover>
              <#assign message = .error />
          </#attempt>
      </#compress>

      and this is the test form that is submitting to the EP:

      <form method="post" action="/my-path/upload-test" enctype="multipart/form-data">
          <input type="file" name="image.content"><br />
          <input type="submit" value="Upload" /><br />
      </form>

       

      So super simple. What I'm seeing is that the line:

      <#assign upload_payload = http.request.parameters.name.get("image.content", "") />

       

      is setting the variable "upload_payload" to an empty string, probably because we failed to find a request param called "image.content". Is there another way I should be getting at the image.content variable that's being uploaded by the form?

      Thanks for your help!

       

      Cheers,

       

      Tripp

      • tripp-bishop's avatar
        tripp-bishop
        Mentor
        10 years ago

        So I've done a little more testing on this and noticed something:

        I added a new field to the form:

        <input type="text" name="image.title" value="The light is green" />

         

        and I commented out the "file" input field.

         

        Submitting the new form to the endpoint I found that the new field is also not found. So I removed the form's enctype attribute and resubmitted the form and the image.title parameter is now found and shows the correct data. So it appears that the multipart/form-data enctype is confusing the endpoint (or at least http.request.parameters). Any thoughts on this?

        Cheers,

         

        Tripp