Modern UI, Django Caching, Better Styling, API Cleanup, & more

New Features

Notable

• Major UI overhaul
  • Copy metadata button
  • Modern UI styling
  • Advanced multi-band compositing with custom colors
• Connects large-image's caching mechanisms to utilize the Django cache framework
  • Specify the named cache as the LARGE_IMAGE_CACHE_NAME, otherwise uses the 'default' cache
• New tiffdump endpoint utilizing tifftools to extract information from Tiff files
• Support for URI encoded styles in request URL parameters (documented in README)
• Improved internal mechanisms for opening tile sources for easier overrides downstream
  • User can specify the source class to use through the source URL parameter
• Better format handing for endpoints that serve image data (single endpoint where PNG, JPEG, or TIFF are specified for the desired format)

Additional

• Support max_width and max_height specification for generating thumbnails
• Improvements to SSR template overriding
• mypy type annotations throughout API
• New TileMetadataSerializer for the tiles/metadata endpoint
• Improved API error handling
• Better OpenAPI RESTful arguments documentation

Demos

• Standalone Docker image demo app: https://github.com/girder/django-large-image/pkgs/container/django-large-image-demo
• Usage with django-raster: https://github.com/ResonantGeoData/django-raster-demo
• Noted support for GeoDjango's GDALRaster in README
• Document how to convert Pyramidal Tiffs (COGs) with Celery tasks

Deprecations & Changes

• internal_metadata -> metadata_internal
• Metadata endpoints are now under the info/ prefix
  • e.g., metadata -> info/metadata
• Data endpoints are now under the data/ prefix
  • e.g., thumbnail.png -> data/thumbnail.(?P<fmt>png|jpg|jpeg)