Best way to access DAM images

[Dominik Jednoralski (via Magnolia Forums)]

Dear Magnolians,

I'm wondering what would be the best way to access images that have been stored and published as assets.

I did the "Starting a CE project with Maven" tutorial and have created a template definition.

http://academy.magnolia-cms.com/display/MA/U2+Starting+a+CE+project+with+Maven

In my assets app, I have a folder "catPictures" which contains a "cat.jpg" image. What strikes me is how I refer to the image from the public instance, which is

<HOST>/authorInstance/.imaging/large/dam/0abc9b1c-755d-4153-a3a1-062f446062f7/cat.jpg

Looks neither intuitive nor correct to me. What would be a better / the best way to refer to images stored in the asset app?

Many thanks in advance,

Dominik

[Dominik Jednoralski (via Magnolia Forums)]

Hi Dominik,

thanks for your question. Surely you understand that images cannot be easily displayed as they live in the deep of some JCR node and that's high-tech. To make this even a little more challenging for developers, we made them deal with the operation chains, workspaces, generators and parameters that we like to call x, y and z in our tutorial.

But back to your problem. What you did there looks a little like you took the image URI from the image preview in Magnolia's author instance. That's just not best practice. Better carefully go through the tutorial here

http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/display/DOCS/Imaging+module#Imagingmodule-Imagerequestprocessing

and come back as soon as you know how to apply a filter.

Good luck,

Dominik