media

Media

Provides methods for creating Media in everything. Media can be uploaded to either everything cloud storage or Arweave via the Mintbase SDK. Then records of the Media and associated Tags to the provided thingId are created in cloud storage.

available methods

createMediaOnCloud

Uploads array of files to everything cloud storage. Will automatically create Media and associated Tags from the provided thingId.

Requires user to be connected to everything via Auth0.

Currently only supports image/jpeg and image/png file types.

  // grab user from Auth0 (example using useUser from AuthContext for Next.js)
  const { user } = useUser();

  // files for upload
  const files: File[] = ....;
  
  // thingId should be provided and valid
  const args: CreateMediaCloudArgs = {
    user,
    thingId
  }

  try {
    // returns urls, but no further action required
    const { urls } = await createMediaOnCloud(files, args);
  } catch(error) {
    // handle error in creating media
  }

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createMediaOnBlockchain

Uploads array of files to Arweave via Mintbase SDK. Will automatically create Media and associated Tags from the provided thingId.

  // files for upload
  const files: File[] = ....;
  
  // thingId should be provided and valid
  const args: CreateMediaBlockchainArgs = {
    thingId
  }

  try {
    // returns urls, but no further action required
    const { urls } = await createMediaOnBlockchain(files, args);
  } catch(error) {
    // handle error in creating media
  }