Umbraco: Get ImageCropper & File Upload via SurfaceController - umbraco

Question

I'm still new to Umbraco 7 but I've found my way around Surface Controllers.
I have created a SurfaceController which you can see future below. But what I can't figure out is how to grab the URL from an Image Cropper and File Upload, I would normally do something like this: #node.GetCropUrl("uploadImage, "thumbnail");
But that doesn't work inside the controller. How do I achieve this? My end goal is to display the URL in a IMG tag when clicking on a category on this page: http://sp34k.dk/portfolio/vue/ in the description area.
CODE:
https://jsfiddle.net/odg3zamx/7/

Answer 1

GetCropUrl is an extension method of IPublishedContent so just add using Umbraco.Web; inside your sufrace controller and you should be able to call it. Like this:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web; //you are missing this namespace
public class PortfolioSurfaceController : SurfaceController
{
// GET: PortfolioSurface
public ActionResult GetCategoryDetails(int id)
{
GalleryItem gItem = new GalleryItem();
var node = Umbraco.TypedContent(id);
gItem.imgUrl = node.GetCropUrl("uploadImage", "featured");
return Json(gItem, JsonRequestBehavior.AllowGet);
}
}