Overview
The Asset Processor API allows you to import assets to storage, validate them, and generate asset previews, for example, to display as thumbnails.
To add resources to storage, you may use the Asset Storage API performing the CRUD operations on the files in storage. However, it does not allow doing anything useful with them. This is where the Asset Processor comes to help.
Using the processor, you can perform operations which require some knowledge about the content of an asset. Here are some examples of these tasks:
- Extracting metadata - e.g. get width/height for an image or a postscript name for a font
- Generating a preview image
- Importing an asset to a storage
Working with public templates is performed using the Designs API. The PrivateDesigns API works with private designs stored in user's folders. Although we describe working with public assets here, private assets are handled by a similar set of endpoints.