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Keith Boynton 19 posts 61 karma points

Jun 25, 2020 @ 07:38
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Getting the media service in a Content App
Hi,

I'm trying to get the media service from inside a content app in v8.6.1

I was hoping that it could be injected like this:
```
angular.module("umbraco")
    .controller("My.ContentApp", function ($scope, editorState, userService, contentResource, mediaService)
```
But mediaService just raises the following error:
```
Error: "[$injector:unpr] Unknown provider: mediaServiceProvider <- mediaService <- My.ContentApp
```
Does anyone know how I can get the media service injected?
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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Jun 25, 2020 @ 20:54
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Hi Keith

I think it's because it's not called "mediaService" in the Umbraco frontend - It appears to be in the backend C# though - I think what you're looking for is the mediaResource

So your snippet should look like this
```
angular.module("umbraco")
    .controller("My.ContentApp", function ($scope, editorState, userService, contentResource, mediaResource)
```
I hope this helps!

/Jan
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Keith Boynton 19 posts 61 karma points

Jun 26, 2020 @ 08:14

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Thank you Jan, that's really helpful, I did find this...

https://our.umbraco.com/apidocs/v8/ui/#/api/umbraco.services

That seems to list the services that are available in the UI, however I didn't find anything in that list that looked like it would provide what I needed.

I'll give your suggestion a spin though, thank you!

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Keith Boynton 19 posts 61 karma points

Jun 26, 2020 @ 15:49
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So I gave your suggestion a spin and actually the mediaResource you mentioned is listed in that doc.. shame on me for missing it :)

However, I'm still being an idiot and not able to work out how to display a media image in a content app.

I have a media picker property, from which I can get the media path:

properties[3].value gives me:
```
umb://media/e40086a316bc4a3e8ef8ba42764ee397
```
I can't seem to get the id of the referenced media so I can't use:
```
 mediaResource.getById()
```
and there doesn't seem to be a getByPath()

I'm trying to get the media item url so I can display it like this:
```
 <img ng-src="{{vm.CoverArt}}" />
```
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Bo Jacobsen 605 posts 2403 karma points

Jun 26, 2020 @ 17:55

Hi Keith.

With Udi i think you need to use the entityResource like

entityResource.getById(umb://media/e40086a316bc4a3e8ef8ba42764ee397, "Media")
   .then(function(ent) {
       var myDoc = ent;
       alert('its here!');
   });

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Jan Skovgaard 11280 posts 23678 karma points MVP 11x admin c-trib

Jun 26, 2020 @ 18:36

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Hi Keith

It's a bit weird but you should be able to pass the udi to the mediaResource.getById(), which is not very obvious - But it should work.

I hope this helps.

/Jan

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Keith Boynton 19 posts 61 karma points

Jun 27, 2020 @ 06:25

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@bo Thank you for that suggestion.. it does work however that only returns a basic object and there aren't any really useful properties on it for my needs at least.

@Jan You're right! That does work indeed and I get the media object with everything I need. There's a property called mediaLink on the returned object (not url as I was expecting) that gives me a working link for the media.

Thank you very much!

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