Riiif
A Ruby IIIF image server as a rails engine.
Installation
RIIIF depends on Imagemagick so you must install that first. On a mac using Homebrew you can follow these instructions:
ImageMagick (7.0.4) may be installed with a few options:
-
--with-ghostscript
Compile with Ghostscript for Postscript/PDF support -
--with-tiff
Compile with libtiff support for TIFF files -
--with-openjpeg
Compile with openjpeg2 support for jpeg2000
brew install imagemagick --with-ghostscript --with-tiff --with-openjpeg
Install the gem
Add this line to your application's Gemfile:
gem 'riiif'
And then execute:
$ bundle
Or install it yourself as:
$ gem install riiif
Configure
Images on the servers file system.
By default Riiif is set to load images from the filesystem using the Riiif::FileSystemFileResolver. You can configure how this resolver finds the files by setting this property:
Riiif::Image.file_resolver.base_path = '/opt/repository/images/'
When the Id passed in is "foo_image", then it will look for an image file using this glob:
/opt/repository/images/foo_image.{png,jpg,tiff,jp,jp2}
Images retrieved over HTTP
It's preferable to use files on the filesystem, because this avoids the overhead of downloading the file. If this is unavoidable, Riiif can be configured to fetch files from the network. To enable this behavior, configure Riiif to use an alternative resolver:
Riiif::Image.file_resolver = Riiif::HttpFileResolver.new
Then we configure the resolver with a mechanism for mapping the provided id to a url:
Riiif::Image.file_resolver.id_to_uri = lambda do |id|
"http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/#{id}.jpg/600px-#{id}.jpg"
end
If you need to use HTTP basic authentication you can enable it like this:
Riiif::Image.file_resolver.basic_auth_credentials = ['username', 's0s3kr3t']
This file resolver caches the network files, so you will want to clear out the old files or the cache will expand until you run out of disk space.
Using a script like this would be a good idea: https://github.com/pulibrary/loris/blob/607567b921404a15a2111fbd7123604f4fdec087/bin/loris-cache_clean.sh
By default the cache is located in tmp/network_files
. You can set the cache path like this: Riiif::Image.file_resolver.cache_path = '/var/cache'
Kakadu (for faster jp2 decoding)
To configure Riiif to use Kakadu set:
Riiif::Engine.config.kakadu_enabled = true
See benchmark for details
GraphicsMagick
To use GraphicsMagick instead of ImageMagick
Riiif::ImagemagickCommandFactory.external_command = "gm convert"
Riiif::ImageMagickInfoExtractor.external_command = "gm identify"
You will of course need to install GraphicsMagick on your system.
Usage
Add the routes to your application by inserting the following line into config/routes.rb
mount Riiif::Engine => '/image-service', as: 'riiif'
Then you can make requests like this:
- http://www.example.org/image-service/abcd1234/full/full/0/default.jpg
- http://www.example.org/image-service/abcd1234/full/100,/0/default.jpg
- http://www.example.org/image-service/abcd1234/full/,100/0/default.jpg
- http://www.example.org/image-service/abcd1234/full/pct:50/0/default.jpg
- http://www.example.org/image-service/abcd1234/full/150,75/0/default.jpg
- http://www.example.org/image-service/abcd1234/full/!150,75/0/default.jpg
Route helpers
It is prefereable that you use the provided route helpers to build these URIs. Here's an example:
image_tag(Riiif::Engine.routes.url_helpers.image_path(file_id, size: ',600'))
Using default images for missing and unauthorized requests
If there is a request for an id that doesn't exist, a 404 will be returned. You can optionally return an image with this 404 by setting this in your initializer:
Riiif.not_found_image = 'path/to/image.png'
If the request is unauthorized, a 401 will be returned, and a custom error image can also be configured.
Riiif.unauthorized_image = 'path/to/unauthorized_image.png'
You can do this to create a default Riiif::Image to use (useful for passing "missing" images to openseadragon_collection_viewer):
Riiif::Image.new('no_image', Riiif::File.new(Riiif.not_found_image))
Authorization
The controller will call an authorization service with the controller context. This service must have a method can?(action, image)
which returns a boolean. The default service is the RIIIF::NilAuthrorizationService
which permits all requests.
In this example we've dissallowed all requests:
class NoService
def initalize(controller)
end
def can?(action, image)
false
end
end
Riiif::Image.authorization_service = NoService
Integration with Hydra/Fedora
Create an initializer like this in config/initializers/riiif_initializer.rb
# Tell RIIIF to get files via HTTP (not from the local disk)
Riiif::Image.file_resolver = Riiif::HttpFileResolver.new
# This tells RIIIF how to resolve the identifier to a URI in Fedora
Riiif::Image.file_resolver.id_to_uri = lambda do |id|
ActiveFedora::Base.id_to_uri(CGI.unescape(id)).tap do |url|
logger.info "Riiif resolved #{id} to #{url}"
end
end
# In order to return the info.json endpoint, we have to have the full height and width of
# each image. If you are using hydra-file_characterization, you have the height & width
# cached in Solr. The following block directs the info_service to return those values:
Riiif::Image.info_service = lambda do |id, file|
# id will look like a path to a pcdm:file
# (e.g. rv042t299%2Ffiles%2F6d71677a-4f80-42f1-ae58-ed1063fd79c7)
# but we just want the id for the FileSet it's attached to.
# Capture everything before the first slash
fs_id = id.sub(/\A([^\/]*)\/.*/, '\1')
resp = ActiveFedora::SolrService.get("id:#{fs_id}")
doc = resp['response']['docs'].first
raise "Unable to find solr document with id:#{fs_id}" unless doc
# You’ll want default values if you make thumbnails of PDFs or other
# file types that `identify` won’t return dimensions for
{
height: doc["height_is"] || 100,
width: doc["width_is"] || 100,
format: doc["mime_type_ssi"],
}
end
def logger
Rails.logger
end
# Note that this is translated to an `expires` argument to the
# ActiveSupport::Cache::Store in use, by default the host application's
# Rails.cache. Some cache stores may not automatically purge expired content,
# such as the default FileStore.
# http://guides.rubyonrails.org/caching_with_rails.html#cache-stores
Riiif::Engine.config.cache_duration = 30.days
Special note for Passenger and Apache users
If you are running riiif in Passenger under Apache, you must set the following in your virtual host definition:
AllowEncodedSlashes NoDecode
You may also need to set the following in your virtual host definition, either at the top level, or within a Location block for a specific path. See the Passenger configuration reference for more info.
PassengerAllowEncodedSlashes on
An alternative approach to PassengerAllowEncodedSlashes on
is to explicitly decode the url, like this:
require "uri"
fs_id = URI.decode(id).sub(/\A([^\/]*)\/.*/, '\1')
Running the tests
First, build the engine
rake engine_cart:generate
Run the tests
rake spec
For more information
see the IIIF spec: