On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 8:15 PM, zacharykane <[email protected]> wrote: > I think I should maybe put this another way. > > What I'm trying to do is add an attachment to a page that is a remotely > available image file. The way the process is desired to work is that the > user doesn't have to download this image and then use the attachment form on > the page manually. Rather, they'd like to know if it can be taken care of > programmaticly. > > I made an assumption of the REST API based upon the example of creating a > Page. It seems that this won't be the same process with creating files - at > least from a purely JavaScript perspective. Using Velocity can I achieve > something like this server side? > Sorry but I don't quite understand what you want to achieve.
If the image is available elsewhere you have two options: 1) Either you link it directly in the page using a URI (i.e., the URI of the image) 2) If you want to have the same image also attached to the page (i.e., having a copy of it on the page) you still need to retrieve the actual binary data of the image and then PUT it as the attachment to the page as I told you earlier. Creating an attachment that is a symbolic link to another file on the web doesn't work because attachments are not post-processed, so an attachment containing a URI-link to an image would be just be plain string of character making up the URI, and not the referenced image. Hope this helps. -Fabio > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/create-attachment-with-Rest-API-tp7583867p7583871.html > Sent from the XWiki- Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
