Image provider is a component that renders images used in apps. It generates the portrait image at the bottom of the action bar and the thumbnails for the thumbnail view. 

Here is an example image provider definition that uses default classes.

imageProvider:
  class: info.magnolia.ui.imageprovider.definition.ConfiguredImageProviderDefinition
  imageProviderClass: info.magnolia.ui.imageprovider.DefaultImageProvider
  originalImageNodeName: jcr:content

Node name

Value

 imageProvider

 

 class

info.magnolia.ui.imageprovider.definition.ConfiguredImageProviderDefinition

 imageProviderClass

info.magnolia.ui.imageprovider.DefaultImageProvider

 originalImageNodeName

jcr:content

Properties:

class

required

Image provider definition class that reads the configuration properties and can supply additional parameters to the image provider class. The definition class must implement the  ImageProviderDefinition  interface. Set the value to a fully-qualified class name.

imageProviderClass

required

Actual implementation that generates thumbnail images. The class must implement the  ImageProvider  interface. You can use  DefaultImageProvider  which provides images for objects of MIME type image/* and delegates to the Imaging module to generate and store the images.

imageExtension

optional, default is png

Extension used to deliver the image.

imagingServletPath

optional, default is /.imaging

Path where the imaging servlet resides.

originalImageNodeName

optional, default is originalImage

Name of the JCR node where the original source image is stored. For example, if a file upload field on a form stores the image in a node named photo set the value to photo.

 

Here are the default image generator configurations that DefaultImageProvider  uses. portrait is displayed at the bottom of the action bar and thumbnail in the thumbnail view.

Node name

Value

 modules 

 imaging

 

 config

 

 generators

 

 portrait

 

 outputFormat

 

 operations

 

 parameterProviderFactory

 

 class

info.magnolia.imaging.operations.ImageOperationChain

 thumbnail

 

 outputFormat

 

 operations

 

 parameterProviderFactory

 

 class

info.magnolia.imaging.operations.ImageOperationChain 
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