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Transformation erroneously replacing all overlay spaces to underscore

See original GitHub issue

Currently, Transformation class is replacing all spaces on parameters to underscore in this line: https://github.com/cloudinary/cloudinary_java/blob/738b328a9057084097b7e381bf8a6e989cf69b43/cloudinary-core/src/main/java/com/cloudinary/Transformation.java#L723

This is causing some issues, like when I try to use some font name that contains spaces (eg: Roboto Condensed), it replaces with underscores and the URL become invalid (because font is invalid). The same applies to text content (overlay), when using the text My Text Content it appears on final Image as My_Text_Content.

Example:

cloudinary.url()
		.signed(true)
		.resourceType("video")
		.transformation(new Transformation()
				.height(480)
				.width(720)
				.crop("fill")
				.chain()
				.color("white")
				.overlay("text:Roboto_70_bold:My Text Content"))
		.format("jpg")
		.generate("video/2130");

Results in:

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

aditimadan-Cloudinarycommented, Feb 9, 2019

Hi Eduard,

That was a workaround. We also have a TextLayer class - that already handles all the encoding for you: https://github.com/cloudinary/cloudinary_java/blob/master/cloudinary-core/src/main/java/com/cloudinary/transformation/TextLayer.java

Example:

TextLayer t=layer.text("Roboto Condensed_70_bold:My Text Content");
		String url=cloudinary.url()
		.signed(true)
		.resourceType("video")
		.transformation(new Transformation()
				.height(480)
				.width(720)
				.crop("fill")
				.chain()
				.color("white")
				.overlay(t))
		.format("jpg")
		.generate("video/2130");

Thanks, Aditi

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aditimadan-Cloudinarycommented, Feb 9, 2019

Hi Eduard,

Can you please try using %20 instead of space and test

Eg:

cloudinary.url()
		.signed(true)
		.resourceType("video")
		.transformation(new Transformation()
				.height(480)
				.width(720)
				.crop("fill")
				.chain()
				.color("white")
				.overlay("text:Roboto%20Condensed_70_bold:My%20Text%20Content"))
		.format("jpg")
		.generate("video/2130");

Thanks, Aditi