Accessing avatar source

Hi @defomicron! Do you need a programmatic way to access the uploaded avatar or do just want to make sure that the full size image is served? The latter can be done easily via this snippet. Although normally, the resizing should not be an issue, as it is only done once per avatar and size in a customizable period of time (clean-up is done once per week by default, for all images older than 7 days, customizable via avatar_privacy_all_images_max_age and avatar_privacy_all_images_cleanup_interval).

You can access the raw data using \Avatar_Privacy\Core::get_instance()->get_user_avatar( $user_id );. It will return an array with the keys file (the image path) and type (the MIME type).

Try this:

<?php
$icon_filter = function( $url, $hash, $size, $args ) {
   return \get_site_url() . '/' . \str_replace( ABSPATH, '', $args['avatar'] );
};

\add_filter( 'avatar_privacy_user_avatar_icon_url', $icon_filter, 20, 4 );
echo \get_avatar_url( \bbp_get_displayed_user_id(), [ 'size' => 500 ] );
\remove_filter( 'avatar_privacy_user_avatar_icon_url', $icon_filter, 20 );
?>

But I’d like to know more about the server environment you are using. Is this a shared hosting situation? If not, I’m pretty sure that there is some browser caching issue and the image generation is not taking 30 seconds (also it is done in the general execution flow, not in the background, so if there was a problem, the whole page would stall/white screen).

In the past, I’ve noticed that sometimes the avatar was not refreshed on uploading a new one in my dev environment, but not on a production site. I’ve since tried to find a way to reproduce the issue (in order to find a proper fix), but it hasn’t happened again since then. (I’m currently working on 2.4.0 which includes some big internal changes, so I might already have fixed whatever was happening here by accident.)

But this is all in series with the same browser, not with several clients in parallel? Because it sounds a lot like a race condition, which I don’t see when it’s all the same browser. I’ll try if I can reproduce it again in MAMP with several uploads in a row.

@defomicron Could you try inserting a line into the method send_imagein includes/avatar-privacy/components/class-image-proxy.php (relative to Avatar Privacy’s plugin directory)?

\header( "Content-Length: {$length}" );
\header( 'Expires: ' . \gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T', \time() + $cache_time ) );

should become

\header( "Content-Length: {$length}" );
\header( 'Last-Modified: ' . \gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T', \filemtime( $file ) ) );
\header( 'Expires: ' . \gmdate( 'D, d M Y H:i:s \G\M\T', \time() + $cache_time ) );

I still can’t reproduce this with my current development version, but that line might help.

Hi @defomicron, have you been able to test that snippet?