Images as media types?

[appdotnet]

Images as media types?

[DanFarfan]

I'm new here. I don't see a way to "vote up" honging's comment.
I agree completely. Came here to open the same issue.

[berg]

I'm not quite sure I fully understand, so could you help me understand how this might be different than an attachment annotation that would allow you to include metadata?

Referencing https://github.com/appdotnet/api-spec/blob/master/objects.md makes note of an "image" type (or is an image simply a subset of an attachment type? this doesn't seem to be clarified in the spec).

Instead of having an image:
{
"height": 512,
"width": 512,
"url": "https://example.com/image.jpg"
}

Once could generalize it further by not assuming the attachment is an image, but a generalized media type:

{
"mimetype": "image/x-png",
"height": 512,
"width": 512,
"url": "https://example.com/image.jpg"
}

Which would let you embed videos as well:
{
"height": 512,
"width": 512,
"duration": 60,
"mimetype": "video/mp4",
"url": "https://example.com/video.mp4"
}

or who knows?
{
"mimetype": "image/svg+xml",
"url": "https://example.com/maybe-svg-will-take-off-one-day.svg"
}

Expanding on this, an image might look like:

{
"height": 512,
"width": 512,
"mimetype": "image/x-jpg",
"url": "https://example.com/image.jpg".
"annotations": {
"exif:ImageWidth": 512
}
}

[berg]

Image is specifically for user icon and cover image. It's not the full and proper image annotation that we'll be adding (working on a draft of that as we speak.), more of a standard user schema for being able to have clients render posts from a user.

[jschlesser]

It would be nice to have resolution info and maybe size (kb) info in the image objects as well. This might complicate media vs simple image but I think it will be necessary given screen and connectivity diversity.

[orianmarx]

We're using an oembed annotation for this purpose: https://github.com/appdotnet/object-metadata/blob/master/annotations/net.app.core.oembed.md