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URL Transformation

By default, accessing the urls of image originals and variations will return the CouchDB url to that attachment.

For example, suppose you had used the couchrest_model_config gem to configure your Image model to use database server "http://admin:[email protected]:5984/" and database "assets":

CouchRest::Model::Config.edit do
  server do
    default "http://admin:[email protected]:5984"
  end

  database Image do
    default "assets"
  end
end

Now, suppose you had an Image "avatar.jpg", and you wanted to access the url to the original image. You'd get "http://admin:[email protected]:5984/assets/avatar.jpg/variations/original.jpg":

Image.get("avatar.jpg").original.url #==> "http://admin:[email protected]:5984/assets/avatar.jpg/variations/original.jpg"

If you have any intention of exposing this URL to end-users, you'll likely want to change it up a bit. For starters, you'll almost certainly want to remove the http basic auth, and you'll also likely have load balancers and pretty domains.

You can use the url_transformer class method on your Image model to specify a block (or object) that can transform your image URLs. For example, suppose we wanted to replace the entire server domain section of the url http://admin:[email protected]:5984 with a public-facing domain http://my-domain.com: 

class Image < CouchRest::Model::Base
  include CouchPhoto

  url_transformer do |url|
    url.gsub %r{http://[^/]+}, "http://my-domain.com"
  end
end

Now, retrieving the original url on our "avatar.jpg" image would return:

Image.get("avatar.jpg").original.url #==> "http://my-domain.com/assets/avatar.jpg/variations/original.jpg"

You could, if you wished, also supply an object that responds to transform to the url_transformer macro:

class UrlTransformer
  def self.transform(url)
    url.gsub %r{http://[^/]+}, "http://my-domain.com"
  end
end

class Image < CouchRest::Model::Base
  include CouchPhoto

  url_transformer UrlTransformer
end
Scenarios
Defining url transformations with a block
Given
the following Image model in which I define a url transformer for turning 'http' requests into 'https' requests: 
  class Image < CouchRest::Model::Base
    include CouchPhoto

    override_id!

    url_transformer do |url|
      url.gsub "http", "https"
    end

    variations do
      thumbnail "50x50"
    end
  end
When
I create an image and save: 
  @image = Image.new
  @image.load_original_from_file "features/fixtures/avatar.jpg"
  @image.save
Then
my image urls should have 'https' instead of 'http': 
  @image.original.url.should == "https://admin:[email protected]:5984/couch_photo_test/avatar.jpg/variations/original.jpg"
  @image.variations[:thumbnail].url.should == "https://admin:[email protected]:5984/couch_photo_test/avatar.jpg/variations/thumbnail.jpg"
When
I load the image from the database: 
  @image = Image.first
Then
my image urls should have 'https' instead of 'http': 
  @image.original.url.should == "https://admin:[email protected]:5984/couch_photo_test/avatar.jpg/variations/original.jpg"
  @image.variations[:thumbnail].url.should == "https://admin:[email protected]:5984/couch_photo_test/avatar.jpg/variations/thumbnail.jpg"
Defining url transformations with an object
Given
the following URL transformer that strips out basic auth: 
  module StripBasicAuth
    extend self

    def transform(url)
      url.gsub %r{^http://([^:]+:[^@]+)@(.*)$} do
        "http://#{$2}"
      end
    end
  end
And
the following Image model in which I supply StripBasicAuth as the url transformer: 
  class Image < CouchRest::Model::Base
    include CouchPhoto

    override_id!

    url_transformer StripBasicAuth

    variations do
      thumbnail "50x50"
    end
  end
When
I create an image and save: 
  @image = Image.new
  @image.load_original_from_file "features/fixtures/avatar.jpg"
  @image.save
Then
my image urls should not have any basic auth: 
  @image.original.url.should == "http://localhost:5984/couch_photo_test/avatar.jpg/variations/original.jpg"
  @image.variations[:thumbnail].url.should == "http://localhost:5984/couch_photo_test/avatar.jpg/variations/thumbnail.jpg"
When
I load the image from the database: 
  @image = Image.first
Then
my image urls should not have any basic auth: 
  @image.original.url.should == "http://localhost:5984/couch_photo_test/avatar.jpg/variations/original.jpg"
  @image.variations[:thumbnail].url.should == "http://localhost:5984/couch_photo_test/avatar.jpg/variations/thumbnail.jpg"

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