Fetching several image variants per image

I am trying to extract image variants through MDM Java API. Currently, we have several variants per image.
I could not find the information on how to extract all variants for each image,
We have RetrieveBlobCommand class that has set/getImageVariant, I haven't tested. Suppose it has some functionality, it can update/get a single variant.
In my case, I have 3 variants per image and would like to fetch them. We have getImageVariants on SchemaRepository class but we need to know how to associate each variant with original image.
It is greatly appreciate if you can help on this.
Thanks
Erol Akarsu

This kind of question will probably get proper attention in the Application Express forum. Consider asking over there ...

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For each variant, all the images associated with that variant will be generated according to the specifications of the variant and the crop/rotate settings stored for that image. MDM tracks the changes to the variant definitions, the variant associations, each image, and the crop/rotate settings for each image, and thus know when the variants need to be regenerated."
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Assuming that the definitions of the Image variants are made via the console and thus present in the Image variants table,...
Is it possible to change the Variant property of the image lookup field(s) in the main table through the Java API?
So that you could write a function that automatically associates specified Image variants with all the image lookup fields in the main table of a certain repository.
I hope somebody can help,
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That is not a feature of iPhoto - suggest to Apple - iPhoto Menu ==> provide iPhoto feedback.
You can opnly resize using the available options and file size is not one of them
LN

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2. catalogCache.Preload("Images", Original)
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get failed, the status code is -2147483647
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Forrest

status code: -2147483647 is RC_BADPARAM.

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Width
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/Kurt
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