Support for Web API that doesn't provide each image download url

[xx790]

What I'm trying to achieve:

I want to use certain Web API as the source of my background pictures.
(I want to use SingleEach mode with Web API - I hope this is possible!)
This API has an endpoint to get all image IDs or hashes in arrays.
Then, a separate endpoint URL has to be made with an ID or hash.

What is currently possible with ClaudiaIDE:

API Endpoint is expected to contain download URLs.
URLs are expected to be found under certain JSON key - it is unclear to me whether this key can be an array.

What can be done to enable my use case:

• Rename API Endpoint to Image search endpoint;
• Make sure JSON Key can understand arrays as well as single values, numbers as well as strings. Consider supporting something like XPath/JSONPath to allow more specific queries;
• Add Image download endpoint with a template parameter to substitute values extracted with JSON Key from the search response. Something like http://example.com/api/download_image?id={};
• Image download endpoint can be set to just the template placeholder like {} by default to achieve current behavior.

Practical example:

The API: https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/developer_api.html#searching_and_fetching_files

It can return a response like this:

{
  "hashes" : [
    "1b04c4df7accd5a61c5d02b36658295686b0abfebdc863110e7d7249bba3f9ad",
    "fe416723c731d679aa4d20e9fd36727f4a38cd0ac6d035431f0f452fad54563f",
    "b53505929c502848375fbc4dab2f40ad4ae649d34ef72802319a348f81b52bad"
  ],
  "file_ids" : [125462, 4852415, 123]
}

And then a separate URL have to be made either with ID or a hash.
There is no way to obtain a random image with a single API call as far as I'm aware.

[buchizo]

support SingleEach

I will consider it.

Rename API Endpoint to Image search endpoint;

I not change it, because this property mean is not image search url.

Make sure JSON Key can understand arrays as well as single values, numbers as well as strings. Consider supporting something like XPath/JSONPath to allow more specific queries;

I will consider it. However If I implement it even if, I use this property for specific single image url.

Add Image download endpoint with a template parameter to substitute values extracted with JSON Key from the search response. Something like http://example.com/api/download_image?id={};
Image download endpoint can be set to just the template placeholder like {} by default to achieve current behavior.

This feature require is simple behavior. If you want to that spec, you can prepare converter server. Anyway CluaidaIDE's this feature can support api call and use one image url from response.

[xx790]

I considered making a converter server. But I don't like the idea of maintaining a server for that one simple task.

I think I will be doing a separate extension for what I need.

While I'm here, I can suggest another idea I also considered:

• For SlideShow Directory Path - look for images in subfolders recursively (always or as an option).

This is more limited than what I need, but it is still an improvement.