Scaling Images

[lujobi]

As discussed with @temparus: A nice enhancement would be if the api would scale the images automatically to the expected ratio

[NotSpecial]

Hello, and thank you for your issue. Could your or @temparus please provide some more details on the requirements and usecases?

It seems to me that this is mostly needed as a feature to send less data, correct? If I correctly recall a conversation with @temparus, this is intended to allow posters to be uploaded in large size for print, while automatically being downscaled for web view?

If this is correct, I would propose simply adding a automatically populated field (image)_compressed, e.g. img_poster_compressed:

1. The *_compressed field would be read-only.
2. When uploading an image, the API automatically computes a down-scaled version and stores it alongside the high resolution image.
3. When requesting the images, clients can decide whether to use the link from e.g. img_poster or img_poster_compressed

This solution would be very simple to implement and not require any new resources, query parameters, etc.

However, I cannot tell if it would fit the requirements -- it would be great if you could provide some more details. Thanks!

[lujobi]

Reading your answer, it came to my mind that this was exactly what we were talking about.
@temparus can surely give further information

[NotSpecial]

Thanks for your feedback, we'll look into implementing this then!