What is Assets HTTP API?

We know that AEM Supports 3 ways of headless delivery in JSON format.

1) Content Services
2) Assets HTTP API
3) Custom Sling Model Exporter

The Assets HTTP API exposes folders and assets from AEM to external world over Restful HTTP APIs.

The API is exposed at http://[server:port]/api/assets and allows all CRUD operations on Assets, including binary, metadata, renditions, and comments.

At present the Assets HTTP API supports the following operations:

• Retrieve a folder listing
• Create a folder
• Create an asset
• Update asset binary
• Update asset metadata
• Create an asset rendition
• Update an asset rendition
• Create an asset comment
• Copy a folder or asset
• Move a folder or asset
• Delete a folder, asset, or rendition

Note: Ensure the property 'Filter Methods' l: POST, PUT, DELETE are selected at location > system/console/configMgr>'Adobe Granite CSRF Filter'.

AEM 6.4 Assets - Walkthrough

Adobe Experience Manager Assets helps you to work with assets, like create, store, and deliver images, video, and other content for any screen or device.

AEM 6.4 has various asset operation on its touch UI.

Below given the image of assets UI.

Assets section has below options.

File:
File section helps to traverse to files and do various operation on an Asset

Collections:
A collection is a set of assets within Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets. Collections are used  to share assets between users. A collection can include assets from different locations.

Collections can be shared with various users that are assigned different levels of privileges, including viewing, editing, and so on.

Lightbox: is a special type of collection that provides easy access to assets. We can quickly access Lightbox to add or delete assets. Every user has an exclusive Lightbox that is automatically created when the user logs in to Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets.

Remember the Lightbox collection cannot be deleted.

Shared Links:

Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) Assets lets you share assets, folders, and collections as a URL with members of internal and external organizations, including partners and vendors. This makes a convenient way of making resources available to external parties without them having to first log in to AEM Assets.

Asset templates :

Adobe InDesign can be used to create and export brochures, flyers and print ads that speeds time to market while complying with brand guidelines and break digital and print silos with consistent messaging across channels leveraging AEM platform.

Catalogs:

Catalogs allows customers to leverage pre-designed InDesign templates to generate new catalogs straight from Experience Manager, target print channel, saving significant time and layout costs.

Jobs:
The Jobs page shows the progress of the asset upload. We can continue working in AEM and return to the Jobs page in Dynamic Media at any time to review an in-progress job.


AEM 6.4 Assets Supported Formats

Image Formats : PNG GIF TIFF JPEG BMP PNM PGM PBM PPM PSD EPS PICT PSB
Document:  DOC DOCX ODT PDF HTML RTF TXT XLS XLSX ODS PPT PPTX ODP INDD PS QXP EPUB Adobe Illustrator (AI)
Multimedia : AAC MIDI 3GP MP3 MPG OGA OGG RA WAV WMA DVI FLV M4V MPEG OGV MOV WMV SWF
Video : mp4 mov qt flv wmv mpg m4v f4v vob m2v mp2 avi webm ogv ogg mxf mts mkv r3d rm ram flac mj2
Archive : TGZ JAR RAR TAR ZIP
Other Supported Formats :SVG, CSS VTT XML Javascript

 

Video tutorial for AEM 6.4 assets: