[FEATURE] Support for media upload

[matepaiva]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I need to be able to upload images related to other collection types, but I am not sure if it is possible or how to do it. If it's possible, it would be good to be documented. I could help with that.

[Baboo7]

Uploading media is still under development. I'll notify you when it will be working.

What do you mean by upload images related to other collection types?

[matepaiva]

I think we are talking about the same thing: the ability to upload images (and later relate it to other collection types ─ for example, an article can have a featured image.

Thank you for the feature development! Can I help you with something in this feature?

[cthom-dev]

Media upload would be fantastic.

[Baboo7]

I published version 1.6.4 that supports media upload. Check the Config section of the doc for proper setup.
I did a few tests and it seems to work properly but I'm waiting for your feedback

[matepaiva]

@Baboo7 sorry, I couldn't understand how to use it to import the images. My use case is: I have a set of articles that have a featured image and, as I import the articles (from a json array), I want to be able to also import (upload) the featured image. Is that possible, for example?

[Baboo7]

You should be able to import the json and the images should be imported on the fly.
Can you share your json so I can see your file structure?

[matepaiva]

I think that what is not clear to me is what I should have on the property article.featured_image, for example. The link to the image? Or the local path to the image?

[matepaiva]

How can I upload featured_image on import?

articles.json:

[
  {
    "id": 5,
    "createdAt": "2010-03-10T17:07:44.000Z",
    "createdBy": 1,
    "updatedBy": 1,
    "publishedBy": 1,
    "publishedAt": "2010-03-10T17:07:44.000Z",
    "updatedAt": "2010-03-10T22:55:33.000Z",
    "title": "Primeiro \"bairro\" de Lisboa com representação em 3D",
    "slug": "primeiro-bairro-de-lisboa-com-representacao-em-3d",
    "excerpt": "",
    "content": "<p>De acordo com as pretensões do requerente e indo de encontro àquilo que entende ser as suas necessidades, propõe-se a edificação de um edifício composto por dois pisos, desenvolvendo-se em dois planos</p>",
    "featured_image": "https://www.anteprojectos.com.pt/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/35850b.jpg",
    "categories": [{ "id": 7 }, { "id": 8 }],
    "tags": [],
    "projects": [],
    "companies": []
  }
]

[Baboo7]

Based on your needs I published version 1.6.5. You'll be able to import the media using a url as you expect for featured_image.

Check out the Importing Data section of the doc.

[matepaiva]

Thank you a lot @Baboo7! I will try it tomorrow and then I will give you some feedback :)

[matepaiva]

@Baboo7 sorry for the delay in the feedback, I was envolved in other projects as well. Today I tried it and it works very well!

Giving you additional feedback, I missed some features. If you wish, I could open a new issue.

Based on the current documentation, I sent the following media object:

[
  {
    "title": "test",
    "media": {
      "id": 31896,
      "url": "http://www.anteprojectos.com.pt/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/35850a.jpg",
      "name": "blablabla.jpg"
    }
  }
]

My thoughts on that are:

• the id is not being respected. As I passed the url, it ignores the id, but it would be great to save that media with that id, although I am not sure that this is possible.
• The name is not being respected.
• it would be good to have the ability to set the alternativeText and caption.

Current result to the import above:

[Baboo7]

Great feedback 🙏

Can you open a Feature Issue with these suggestions?