Upload

If you want to upload images you can use the dashboard. Just create a new Module with a class, which has an attribute of the type “image”, and deploy your app. Now go to the “Data” tab, add an object of that class and click into the table cell of the image attribute. Choose the image you want to upload and confirm.

Practically the same process is used for files.

Download

If you want to download a file or picture click on the picture icon in the dialog or on the clip.

Upload standalone

For uploading an image that's stored on its own and not attached to an object you send a HTTP POST request to the REST resource /yambas/rest/apps/{appName}/data/images. You have to replace {appName} by the name of your app and send the picture’s data in the HTTP body. Optional parameters are the name and format of the picture.

For uploading a file there’s another REST resource: /yambas/rest/apps/{appName}/data/files, which works the same way. To upload an image use this cURL command:

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MYPICTURE.JPG stands for the location of your image while MYAPIKEY is a placeholder for the APIKey of your app which you can find in the App Setup screen of your dashboard. Also you have to replace MYAPPNAME wihin the URL with the name of your app.
If you want to upload a file just replace “images” with “files” within the URL.

This command returns the IMAGEID. You need this ID to access this image later.

Upload as attachment

In the past, you had to take the image/file URL from the location header of the response to the POST request that saved the image/file and assign it to an object's attribute. For example, when the attribute was called "myFile" the URL hat to be assigned to "myFileURL" and then a PUT request with that object had to be sent.

Since ApiOmat 2.6.0 you can also directly attach images and files to objects.

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This will lead to 1) The data being saved and 2) the data URL being saved in the object.

Download standalone

If you upload a file or picture as either standalone or as attachment to an object, you receive a response with a location header. The last part of the location URL is the IMAGEID. You need that ID and the APIKey of your app to get the picture.

Then you can download the image as json from the resource /yambas/rest/apps/{appName}/data/images/{imageId}.
Or download the image as mimetype image with appending “.img” to this resource.

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You can also send the API key as header instead of a parameter with the option -H “X-apiomat-apikey:YOURAPIKEY”.
As with uploading, downloading files instead of images works the same way, just use the resource/yambas/rest/apps/{appName}/data/images/{imageId}. Here you can append “.img” as well to download the file with its correct mimetype instead of json.

If you want to access a picture you’ve uploaded with cURL with an SDK, you can load the image from the href: /yambas/rest/apps/MYAPP/data/images/IMAGEID.img?apiKey=MYAPIKEY

Again replace MYAPP with the name of your app, IMAGEID with the ID you received after uploading and MYAPIKEY with the APIKey of your app.

Download attached data

Since ApiOmat 2.6.0 the image/file URLs that are stored in objects, where the data was attached, changed. In the past the URLs where the direct URLs (like /yambas/rest/apps/MYAPP/data/images/IMAGEID.img). From 2.6.0 on, they look like this:

/yambas/rest/apps/MYAPPNAME/data/images/MYMODULENAME/MYCLASSNAME/MYOBJECTID/MYIMAGEATTRIBUTE/MYIMAGEID

When sending a request to this new URL, the Native Module static data hook methods doGetData() (transient) and beforeGetData() / afterGetData() (non-transient) get called.

Sending the request is not different from before except for the URL:

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Image scaling and resizing

When downloading or embedding an image you can adjust some parameters in the URL to scale and resize the image, as well as setting a background color, alpha channel and transcode the image to a different format. How you do that is documented in this REST API doc section.
The parameters width and height control the scaling and resizing. When you set both of them, the image gets resized and it’s up to you to keep or change the aspect ratio of the image. When you set just one of them, the image gets scaled with the other value automatically adjusted to keep the image’s original aspect ratio. For example, when you uploaded an image with 480×320 (w x h) pixel, and you download the image with the width set to 240 pixel, the height automatically gets set to 160 pixel and the aspect ratio of 4:3 stays the same.

To show the image after navigating to the URL just set the parameter show to true. To directly download the image simply leave the parameter show blank. Backgroundcolors are specified as hex value via parameter bgcolor (without leading # symbol).
To see more information about all available parameters simply visit the REST API doc section

The corresponding cURL command looks like this:

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Or with the REST endpoints that were introduced in 2.6.0:

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