PayloadCMS Upload field: how does it work?

walteraandradelast year

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  zed0547last year

  Hey

  @187583730804719617

  ,

  
  
  

  This is a typical upload-enabled collection config with a slug of

  'media'

  , commonly referred to as a Media collection by some users:

  
  
  

  import type { CollectionConfig } from 'payload'
  
  export const mediaSlug = 'media'
  
  export const MediaCollection: CollectionConfig = {
    slug: mediaSlug,
    access: {
      create: () => true,
      read: () => true,
    },
    fields: [
      {
        type: 'text',
        name: 'alt',
        required: true
      }
    ],
    upload: {
      crop: true,
      focalPoint: true,
      imageSizes: [
        {
          name: 'thumbnail',
          height: 200,
          width: 200,
        },
        {
          name: 'medium',
          height: 800,
          width: 800,
        },
        {
          name: 'large',
          height: 1200,
          width: 1200,
        },
      ],
    },
  }

  
  
  

  This collection houses additional properties unique to upload-enabled collections. It has image sizes which transforms images, as well as other fields that are not listed here but are present, such as the medias url, size, width/height, etc.

  
  
  

  In addition to this, in your

  payload.config.ts

  file, you can declare more customization options by passing an

  upload

  property to your buildConfig, for example:

  
  
  

  // payload.config.ts
  buildConfig({
    ...
    upload: {
      abortOnLimit: true,
      limits: {
        fileSize: 2_000_000, // 2MB
      },
    }
    ...
  })

• 

  walteraandradelast year

  Thanks

  @654031862146007055

  , I'm sorry, I was actually curious about how Payload stores this media. Both the Paylaod app and the DB will be deployed in Cloud Run with Docker images, so I'm trying to understand if I can simply deploy it as it is or if it would be better to add an adapter.

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  zed0547last year

  Adapter is your best bet

  
  
  

  Cloud Run is still serverless

  
  
  

  I think Cloud Run is really cool, using some nice technologies powering it, but if I remember correctly they're still just disposable containers

  
  
  

  Which means that your images

  may

  work for a little bit but will eventually be wiped