How to get mime type/metadata for specific media item

[martin-hewitt]

Working from https://buddycloud.org/wiki/Buddycloud_HTTP_API#.2F:channel.2Fmedia.2F:media, it seems that I can POST a media item with a bunch of metadata, and I can GET the file itself, but there's no indication of how I can get the metadata for the file.

If I'm looking to display an icon for some files, and a thumbnail for images, it would be good to know the file's metadata information before attempting to GET it.

[lloydwatkin]

This is actually a media server question, but should be documented somewhere. Looking at the media server code here it seems the metadata URL is:

/{ENTITY_ARG}/{MEDIA_ARG}/metadata

I'd imagine this really should be using the HTTP verb OPTIONS rather than its own endpoint. Maybe this is something that should be coded up.

[lloydwatkin]

https://github.com/buddycloud/buddycloud-media-server/blob/0f21a7debe50e5c83b8bb6ad949587c0645ea40e/src/main/java/com/buddycloud/mediaserver/web/MediaMetadataResource.java