Prevent base url on image path save through API request

General
1

Since Cockpit doesn’t easily support saving image files through an api call, I thought of saving images on an external API. So i tried the following:

Post http://otherimageurl.com/image.jpg to
http:mycockpitcmsurl.com/api/collections/save/collectionname

in the field
{
…
image: {
path: “SAVE IMAGE URL HERE.”
}
…
}

But cockpit saves its own base url in front of my external image url.
Is there a possibility to prevent cockpit CMS to automatically save the base-url of cockpit when accessing through an API post call, for example in a custom API call?

2

there is an add assets api entry point:

/api/cockpit/addAssets

3

I never tried it before and tested it now. It works well. Make sure, to name your key files[].

Javascript example: https://github.com/agentejo/cockpit/issues/763#issuecomment-434509812

Postman example:

cp-api-addAssets
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4

Hi, this example doesn’t work for me. Is there another solution now to send images via API?

5

What is it that you are trying to accomplish? And in which way does the example not work out as expected?

6

Hi, It works very well, I forgot to declare the file as a file.

var axios = require('axios');
var FormData = require('form-data');
var fs = require('fs');
var data = new FormData();
data.append('files[]', fs.createReadStream('/C:/Users/***/img.jpg'));
data.append('meta[folder]', '');

var config = {
  method: 'post',
  url: '**/api/cockpit/addAssets?token=**',
  headers: { 
    'Authorization': 'Bearer **', 
    ...data.getHeaders()
  },
  data : data
};

axios(config)
.then(function (response) {
  console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch(function (error) {
  console.log(error);
});