API save to Cb Activity and Gallery

Hello

Following
my move from com_hotspots to CB Activity, I’d like to finish it by writing an auto action to get the data from our iOS/android application into CB.

For now we have the application which sends data and images received by hotspots API under a save task and the format is then :

where $images are photo files and $data is a json like
In order to avoid breaking the native apps, is it possible to have an auto action in CB to save all this in a new activity and return its id ?

As I need to save both images/videos in CB Gallery and CB Activity, could you point me to what I need to do ?

Thanks a lot

In order to avoid breaking the native apps, is it possible to have an auto action in CB to save all this in a new activity and return its id ?

The CB Activity action type doesn't return anything when doing creations or deletions, but will review pushing a quick new build where the object is added to the substitutions so you can access it via [action_object] and for id would be [action_object_id]. You'd then just use the built in Output feature to output it as whatever format you want.

forge.joomlapolis.com/issues/8847

As I need to save both images/videos in CB Gallery and CB Activity, could you point me to what I need to do ?

Only way that'd work is you'd need to load the file data into _FILES global or encode the image into raw data string and pass that through. Take a look at saveItemEdit in component.cbgallery.php for the file data handling. If you store that externally you could just use the CB Gallery action type to generate a media link to it though and then you don't have to deal with trying to perform a file upload.

Great ! thanks

Have to consider for a future release how I want to best implement that action object handling since most actions with objects have more than 1 object. Will be looking into it more in the future, but it'll likely only be available for PHP based layouts via something like $autoaction->objects() which would give an array of objects returned by the action and you'd need to loop through them as needed.

So for now I don't have an immediate solution for you beyond maybe querying for that information in the PHP layout or something of the sort.