Image download link

I have a mediacollectionelement that show's sizedImages from the objectmanager (Image).

The problem now is that they also whanna have a link to download the full Image. Is this possible to convert the image url to a download url?

I'm assuming you are using media articles with object manager lead images since the mediacollectionelement does not support looping over object images directly.

the non-resized image can be retrieved using (when looping over the media articles in te mediacollection jspf):
mediaItemVersion.leadImage.url

the resized version can be found using:
mediaItemVersion.leadImageMediaItem.current.thumbNailImage.url

these can both be used as a download url, check the webmanager api for details:
http://api.gxwebmanager.com/javadoc/nl/gx/webmanager/cms/mediarepository/MediaItemVersion.html

Also make sure you test that an image has been assigned to prevent errors, like this:

<c:if test="${showImage && (not empty mediaItemVersion.leadImageMediaItem) && (not empty mediaItemVersion.leadImageMediaItem.current.thumbNailImage) && (not empty mediaItemVersion.leadImageMediaItem.current.thumbNailImage.url)}">
<img src="${fn:escapeXml(mediaItemVersion.leadImageMediaItem.current.thumbNailImage.url)}"

since the mediacollectionelement does not support looping over object images directly.

If you select image as content type in a media overview it's possible to loop true images from the objectmanager.

But i've checked the api and there i can only find the url and absolute url. What i whanna achieve is to convert the url to a download url. Just like the download element.

Hi Johnsten,

what you get with both url's are the only way (standard) to retrieve the image. The rest is up to Apache (or IIS, etc. if you use that one).

Your problem is that the server sends something like:
'Content-Disposition: inline (or nothing at all)
instead of
Content-Disposition: attachment

What you might do (one of the many solutions) is to:
step 1. modify the url a bit, into e.g. something.jpg?download=true
step 2. let apache know (via .htaccess) that the querystring '?download=true' needs to send the header 'Content-Disposition: attachment'.