Fetching images of resource space using URL from outside

[neel bhatt]

Hello All,

We have subscribed to resource space and now we are having some use case which I need to know how to go further.

First of all we need to fetch image from resource space URL from web portal which will basically give URL into src of image tag.

But as we know there are some extra data in the URL for example below:

"/filestore/2/0/4/3_[extra_data]/123pre_[extra_data]?[extra_data]"

So if I want to fetch image from resource space URL then which is the best practice?

[Bill Tickle]

Use the API
http://www.resourcespace.com/knowledge-base/api/get_resource_path

need version 7.9 and above. 

[Frederick Yocum]

@Bill The answer to a question I have may be connected to your response. I want to link to images stored in MediaSpace in the Help content that I am building in MediaSpace. Can are build a scr using the api? If so what would the format be? 

Would I need to use an absolute link or a relative one?

TIA

[Frederick Yocum]

@Bill The answer to a question I have may be connected to your response. I want to link to images stored in MediaSpace in the Help content that I am building in MediaSpace. Can are build a scr using the api? If so what would the format be? 

Would I need to use an absolute link or a relative one?

TIa

[Bill Tickle]

It is really hard to be able to give an answer. If you are using for static images it might be easier just to rip the path to them but if your needs are more complex then perhaps the api is the route. 
Here is how we are using the api... we have built an external search using .net c# that makes a query based on a simple form submission - emulating the simple search function. 

It returns the preview asset of each of the images returned. 
If you know the asset Id then use the get_resource_path function
http://www.resourcespace.com/knowledge-base/api/get_resource_path
you pass this as a query which has been hashed - see documentation - here is a snippet of how that works in our .net solution

// get image

                    String ApiIDquery = "user=" + APIuser + "&function=get_resource_path&param1=" + refID + "&param2=&param3=pre&param4=&param5=jpg";  - pass image Id, null, pre(meaning image preview size, null and jpg exention

                    String idHash = privateKey + ApiIDquery;               concatenate with private key

                    String apiIDCode = getHashSha256(idHash);         -- subroutine that hashes the above string

                    String idLowerCode = apiIDCode.ToLower();          -- for some reason with .net we have to make the result lower case - not sure why. 

                    var idUrl = "http://[url to site]/resourcespace/api/?" + ApiIDquery + "&sign=" + idLowerCode;  - make the whole thing into a URL -- this returns json code containing the string to the preview that then needs to be in your img tag. This all looks a bit scary but .net does - it is way easier in php. 
If I get some time and people are interested I'll make the code more generic and post it. 

[Frederick Yocum]

@Bill Talking with someone from Montana. It would probably be simplest for my needs to put the images in a folder on the server and link directly to the images. This would keep them out of the ResourceSpace system. But would also be the clean and clean. Looking at your function made my head spin in any case :-)

[Jordan Ormrod]

Hi Bill. Have you had any success downloading a file from a collection using C#? Cheers.