Referencing public image url as Product image in magento 2.0

[AKum]

Hi,
I am able to send products on magento using rest api but I would like to send images as well.

Previously I was sending blobs but it was to bulky to handle in JSON.

So is there any way to just send a public image url using rest call which will associate that image to product.

Details 

Image : Is publicly hosted on aws s3

Callout : Doing rest call from saleforce

Goal : want to associate that public url as a small_image of product.

Thanks

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @AKum,

I think you can't do that out-fo-the-box but maybe you can try extending the product endpoint to handle the request in that way. Then, inside Magento, you could try to fetch the remote image.

[Finestshops]

Hi AKum,

Maybe this will help you:

http://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/105677/getting-a-custom-attribute-image

We are doing a similar customization for a client now but, in our case, URLs to the images are kept in a separate table referenced to each product by SKU, not as attributes so we have to do a custom solution for that client.

Hope this helps.

[AKum]

@Damian Culotta agree with you but magento should have this feature by default.

Thanks !