Image

The image component is used to display images.

Schema

Below are two examples of the schema required to define an Image.

{
    "type": "Image",
    "options": {
        "image_url": "https://image.io/ijoh943.jpg"
    }
},
{
    "type": "Image",
    "options": {
        "base64": "poiu49ht3...",
        "caption": "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet"
    }
}

Description

Key	Description
`image_url`	The URL of the image. Only JPG, PNG, GIF and WebP supported. (Optional if `base64` is specified.)
`base64`	Optional. Base64 encoded string of the image.
`base64_extension`	Optional. The extension of the base64 encoded image data. Defaults to `png`. Allowed values include `jpeg` and `png`.
`width`	Optional. The width of the component, when inside a `Section` or `Row` component with their `columns` option set to `null`.
`caption`	Optional. Caption to add below the image.

When using the image_url key, ensure the image you are linking to has a size of less than 2 MB.

Layout

By default, the images will be scaled proportionally to fit within the confines of the region of the report they are added to. This means there may be white space around the image, as it attempts to maintain the aspect ratio.

Width

The width key supports defining the width using a fraction specified as a string e.g. 1/3. The values for the denominator supported are 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 12, whilst the numerator can be any value up to the value of the denominator.

If the width key is set to null, then the component will attempt to fill all the available horizontal space.

Providing the image data

Images can be provided in one of two ways, either via providing an external web-accessible URL, or by base64 encoding the image. Providing an external URL is the preferred way, as this greatly reduces the size of the JSON payload being POSTed to the API. Please note, you should only specify either the image_url key or the base64 key.

As a hosted image

The recommended way to provide a URL for your image is to host it on a cloud storage solution such as Amazon S3 / Google Cloud Storage buckets / Azure Blob Storage. The supported image formats are:

As a base 64 encoded image

If hosting your image is not an option, you can base 64 encode the image and provide the string in the base64 key. Please ensure the base 64 encoded string is using the UTF-8 character set.

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