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Images showing as strings and not the image information

MRL
4 weeks ago
5

Hi all


I have a block that returns some items and one of which is an image.


I can't however get the actual image to return, it just returns me the image id. Is there any way to get the actual image to be returned with all the data?



I can see the image data in the API URL so I believe it is probably related to the image being of type

string | Media

?


Do I need to query the images separately?



I'm also using the REST API by the way.



Ahh figured out the issue, I didn't have the right access set on the Media collection!


access: {
  read: () => true
}
  • ElliotYoYo
    4 weeks ago

    You need to set/increase the

    depth

    parameter in your request. Payload doesn't populate nested document by default and only gives you the

    id

    of it.


    https://payloadcms.com/docs/getting-started/concepts#depth


    Well you were too fast 😀

  • MRL
    4 weeks ago

    Ah haha sorry mate, we were right on the same submit time. Thanks for your reply though. I was checking the depth but could see I was getting the data back in the API. I just couldn’t access it. Then when querying the media by itself, I realised that it wasn’t working which is when I tested the access.

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