Custom Image Name - Public ID already exists

Sebastian Riedel

January 29, 2017 19:33

When you upload an image using the upload widget and you set the public id / image name. Does the image name increment if it already exists?

For example, you load an image and set the public ID to be the name of the image, which is "this-image-name.jpg"

Later you try to upload a different image that happens to have the same name, can it increment .. for example, "this-image-name-1.jpg"? Or is that something you have to do, i.e. run a check each time you upload to make sure the name does not already exist? and if it does than increment?

From my initial tests, it looks like the second image simply doesn't upload, but just wanted to be sure there is nothing that I'm missing? Thanks in advance.

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  Ido

  February 03, 2017 14:11

  Hi,

  When you upload an image with an identical public id which already exists, then indeed the behavior is that the image will NOT be overwritten, to allow for secure usage. It is not auto incremented.

   

  Hope this clarifies the point.

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