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Fetching image from the Raw Json data
posted by bit_coderSTAFFMOD on April 22, 2017 at 6:14 PM
I have seen the raw Json data of now playing movies and I have used Retrofit library to parse the data and I want to display the image also but when I am pasting the link of poster path in the browser it is not returning any image so I just want to know that if I write the code for fetching the image using glide library will it give me the image or not.
Reply by Prithu
on April 22, 2017 at 9:59 PM
The Link to the image is made up of three parts : 1. base_url 2. file_size and 3. poster_path. The API returns the last part only that looks something like this - /iNpz2DgTsTMPaDRZq2tnbqjL2vF.jpg
base_url and a list of sizes available can be fetched using the configuration method. But this does not change that often so you can use
https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/for base_url and any one of these sizes for file_size:But it is recommended by the developer to cache this data and check for updates every now and then.
combining the base_url, file_size and poster_path you will get the complete URL for the poster. Like this https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w640/iNpz2DgTsTMPaDRZq2tnbqjL2vF.jpg
Another little thing - There is another size, w640 that works for posters as well but it is not mentioned in the configuration API, So Travis will have to confirm with this one.
Hope that helps
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 23, 2017 at 11:24 AM
Hey @Prithu Only because I've seen you answer this question twice, we have some documentation around this you can link to that might help.
This article can be helpful to share.
Usually, I'll also link to this one about image languages because it can be helpful to people as well.
Reply by Prithu
on April 23, 2017 at 1:40 PM
Will do. Thanks !
Reply by bit_coder
on April 25, 2017 at 1:12 PM
Thanks It worked