Cache Images?

[ApolloZhu]

Using libraries like Kingfisher?

[uetcis]

I'll take it on board

[uetcis]

Well, after careful consideration, I've found it a bit hard to use KingFisher to load images. Here is the reason:

• On our backend, the image isn't responded as simple image data like jpeg, png, etc. The response is actually a JSON string with the base64 data and the copyright info of the image, so it can't work with KingFisher directly. For more information, checkout the source code of the backend

[ApolloZhu]

Some thoughts:

• Cache the entire request, not sure how Moya and Alamofire are handling this.
• Redesign backend, store image in whatever places, return an url instead.
• Cache the image with some identifier, but then the logic will be messy.

[uetcis]

Actually, every character/anime in the database has a unique key, so that we can get identifiers for free.

[ApolloZhu]

The implementation I can think of for now will require changing the backend to only return the base64 image when required or the image has been updated...

[uetcis]

In my opinion, the copyright info should be cached together with the image data. We can make a specific model for caching the whole PicPack

[ApolloZhu]