Conditional Transformations

Transformations can be applied conditionally, i.e., only if certain properties of the input asset satisfy a given condition. To accomplish this, you can create if-else - like constructs within an asset URL.

The syntax to build and specify a conditional transformation block is:

if-{condition},{transformations_on_true},if-else,{transformations_on_false},if-end

For example, you can resize all landscape images to a certain width, say 200, while resizing portrait images to a width of 300. The value of the ar (aspect ratio) property of an image helps determine whether it has a landscape (> 1) or portrait (< 1) orientation.

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1. condition: A condition based on a property of the image that evaluates to either true or false. It has the format if-{property}_{operator}_{value}. Learn more.
2. transformations_on_true: Transformations that are applied only if the preceding condition evaluates to true. This can be a chain of transformations as well.
3. transformations_on_false (optional): Transformations that are applied only if the preceding condition evaluates to false. This can be a chain of transformations as well. This part along with the preceding if-else are optional and can be skipped.

The condition part in the above syntax can be built using a predefined set of image properties, comparison operators, and logical operators. A singular condition follows the {property}_{operator}_{value} syntax. For example, if-h_gt_100 evaluates to true if the height of the image is greater than 100.

You can combine multiple conditions using the and and or logical operators. For example, if-h_gte_100_and_h_lte_400_or_ar_lt_4-3 evaluates to true only if the image height is between 100 and 400, or the aspect ratio is less than 4:3.

You can specify a set of any supported transformations, or a chain of transformations, in place of the transformations_on_true and transformations_on_false parts. The former will be applied if the condition evaluates to true. The latter will be applied if the condition evaluates to false. The if-else and the succeeding transformations are optional.

For example, if-ar_gt_1,w-200,if-else,w-300,if-end and if-ar_gt_1,w-200,if-end are both valid.

An if block can be one of the steps in a chain of transformations. For example, in h-200,c-pad_resize:if-h_eq_200,w-100,if-end:rt-90, the if block is the second step in a chain of three steps. The height value that this block receives for evaluating the h_eq_100 condition, will be 200 since the previous step in the chain resizes the image to a height of 200. Hence, the condition will evaluate to true.