[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #26737: WP_Image_Editor should provide a query_formats function.

[WordPress Trac]

#26737: WP_Image_Editor should provide a query_formats function.
-----------------------------+------------------------------
 Reporter:  dan.rossiter     |       Owner:
     Type:  feature request  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal           |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Media            |     Version:
 Severity:  normal           |  Resolution:
 Keywords:                   |
-----------------------------+------------------------------

Comment (by dan.rossiter):

 Replying to [comment:1 markoheijnen]:
 > Why isn't it enough to check if a specific mime type is supported? I'm
 not seeing the benefit for returning the formats with a method.

 Because that is a less flexible solution. Obviously anything that can be
 done by checking for support of an individual extension can be done for
 all WP-supported extensions, but sometimes it is cleaner to have access to
 the full list.

 A specific example of such a case would be a bit of code I'm currently
 working on to support generation of thumbnails for arbitrary filetypes.
 Each of the many methods of generating a thumbnail is indexed by a regex
 matching all supported thumbnails. WP_Image_Editor is one of the ways that
 I can generate these thumbnails. With direct access to all supported
 extensions I can generate this index with much less overhead than if I
 were to iterate all WP-supported extensions and for each get the mime
 type, then check whether that mime type is supported.

--
Ticket URL: <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/26737#comment:2>
WordPress Trac <http://core.trac.wordpress.org/>
WordPress blogging software