Support for sp_image_* about hallon HOT 2 CLOSED

The main development branch is 1.0.0, and I’ve recently overcome one of the major issues I had with implementing these kind of things. It is very possible to make this in the 1.0.0 branch!

Images can only be loaded by providing an image_id (which is a series of bytes, a string if you wish). This image_id can be stored, but to get it initially you need either an Album or an Artist object, this means it’s not enough for me to just code the image implementation since you need another implementation just to use it!

So what needs to be in place is first the Session handling (working on this right now), and after that a way to retrieve either an Album or an Artist. Once this is done, you can fetch the image for the Album or Artist. So, how is this to be done, you ask? Well, the absolutely quickest way to an image is implementing links, which can be used to retrieve an Album or Artist (or other objects such as playlists and tracks) directly!

However, depending on how you want to use this you might not want the quickest implementation. You can also convert a Link to a Track which will give you an Album or Artist. You can also convert a Link to a Playlist, which can give you tracks. Finally, you can retrieve a Playlist from your PlaylistContainer which is connected to your currently logged in user!

So, to give me a perspective, how would you want to use this? :)

PS: I can’t give you any promises of when it will be done. I’m a student and I work on Hallon only when I have time and motivation. What I can promise you is that I’ll work on image support earlier than I had intended before you posted this issue ;)

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Spotify added support for directly linking to images with Spotify URIs in libspotify v0.0.8 that was released about ~3 weeks ago, and this functionality is now added to Hallon.

As for the test, I actually retrieved the image URI using the raw API. Support for other ways of retrieving the image is in the queue.

Callbacks aren’t supported yet (don’t need them), but I’ll create a separate issue for them.

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