Image posts resulting in Blob Not Found

[JayIsPainting]

I am writing an app to integrate into an existing CFML app.

I have text posts working fine (https://bsky.app/profile/esatest.bsky.social)

However, I'm not having any luck with an image post.

My code gets all 200s on completion and I do get a $link back from uploadBlob but when I post that to createRecord, I get a post without an image.

I'm posting the image as binary (I also tried base64)

The response from uploadBlob is 200 with the following

{"blob":{"$type":"blob","ref":{"$link":"bafkreiep3jamgf7vbgpv27oh2l55t2oivtykbzv4ymmcvq5yrjlrukxxzu"},"mimeType":"image/jpg","size":311630}}

My createRecord post json is

{"embed":{"images":[{"image":{"ref":{"$link":"bafkreigeo6ukmjkdnw2iujtuwonrohcnb35wngjzkprzh5ojowzosmkhoq"},"size":311430,"$type":"blob","mimeType":"image/jpg"},"alt":"brief alt text description of the image"}],"$type":"app.bsky.embed.images"},"repo":"did:plc:vo37i5ooqwooxgkmbc3277kt","record":{"text":"Image API Test posted at {ts '2023-11-09 15:47:45'}","createdAt":"2023-11-09T15:47:45-07:00","langs":["en-US"],"type":"app.bsky.feed.post"},"collection":"app.bsky.feed.post"}

Running the following as suggested in another post (with the cid as a variable ofc)

https://bsky.social/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.getBlob?did=did:plc:vo37i5ooqwooxgkmbc3277kt&cid=bafyreigs3qns7uvrrd5bufuzumcup2yz6w5slksc5owjhbze7ng25xwrqu
at the end of each request returns "message":"Blob not found"

I've been banging at this for a day and a half and am at a loss as to what I'm doing wrong. Especially when it appears everything is working the way it should. It's odd to me that I'm getting a $link value back if my upload isn't working.

[DavidBuchanan314]

The getBlob endpoint won't return any uploaded blobs until they've been successfully "anchored" to at least one post record.

If we beautify your JSON, the issue becomes apparent - you haven't put the embed field inside the record object, and therefore it's being ignored silently. Since it never gets properly attached to the post, getBlob pretends it doesn't exist.

{
  "embed": {
    "images": [
      {
        "image": {
          "ref": {
            "$link": "bafkreigeo6ukmjkdnw2iujtuwonrohcnb35wngjzkprzh5ojowzosmkhoq"
          },
          "size": 311430,
          "$type": "blob",
          "mimeType": "image/jpg"
        },
        "alt": "brief alt text description of the image"
      }
    ],
    "$type": "app.bsky.embed.images"
  },
  "repo": "did:plc:vo37i5ooqwooxgkmbc3277kt",
  "record": {
    "text": "Image API Test posted at {ts '2023-11-09 15:47:45'}",
    "createdAt": "2023-11-09T15:47:45-07:00",
    "langs": [
      "en-US"
    ],
    "type": "app.bsky.feed.post"
  },
  "collection": "app.bsky.feed.post"
}

[JayIsPainting]

Yes. Thanks. That's got me part the way there. I was basing things off the blog post https://atproto.com/blog/create-post and it doesn't use the record object in the example.

I do have image posts & alt text showing now but the image is blank. I saw on another post this is probably due to the format the image is uploaded in. I will work on that