I am going through the Reading data from JSON tiddlers documentation and trying to work out how to implement it so that I can display an externally hosted image just by looking up a key/value pair in a JSON tiddler consisting of URI’s, such as… ▶ my JSON example I presume that I will need to create …

Using a tiddler of type application/json for the dictionary, you have two options: A) get the contents of the tiddler and use the JSON operators. \function get.image(dict,key) [<dict>get[text]jsonget<key>] <$image source={{{ [get.image[dict],[coin.png]] }}}/> B) Treat it as a JSON data tiddler : …

I have done the same thing, but I think the loop convenience of wikitext is too cumbersome. I solved this problem using js, and it is more flexible using js.

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Thanks for this @saqimtiaz . Can you remind me please, how would I would make this into a global macro / procedure so that the invocation for it can be accessed from any tiddler without having to expressly define the \procedure on every tiddler where it gets used. Also, do I need any error handling i…

[image] FrittRo: Can you remind me please, how would I would make this into a global macro / procedure so that the invocation for it can be accessed from any tiddler without having to expressly define the \procedure on every tiddler where it gets used. Tag the tiddler with the definition as $…

[image] saqimtiaz: Currently if the dictionary or key do not exist, I think you will get a broken non-loading image. That is perfect, I was wondering if I had to do something myself for handling this, but it looks like TW already has that built-in. Thanks again for the help with this! …

After all of that effort, I have just remembered about creating External Images as tiddlers. This might be a much simpler way to achieve the same thing, but without the need for a list of external images at all! Gosh, it is going to take me a while to get back into the “TiddlyWiki-way” of doing thin…

Display an external image by looking up a JSON tiddler key/value pair?

oeyoews October 29, 2023, 2:23pm 4

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