atlas_media not returning results

[mjwestgate]

When I try quite simple queries with atlas_media, they often fail. For example, to get images for this record, I get:

atlas_media(
  filter = galah_filter(id == "ead2f896-4c07-4e5e-9dc4-be5c9ee7643f"), 
  download_dir = "cache")
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Calling the API failed for `atlas_media`.
ℹ This might mean that the ALA system is down. Double check that your query is correct.
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On further investigation, it appears there are (at least) two problems:

• This function uses the imageInfoForList API (docs here) to query many image identifiers at once, but doesn't appear to work
• It also uses curl::Async to make the query, but this errors for unknown reasons (Error in AsyncVaried$new(.list = reqs) : object 'reqs' not found)

Both problems can be solved by choosing simpler solutions and looping/lapply-ing across all identifiers. This approach has the advantage that the API supports downloading thumbnails by adding thumbnail to the url, perhaps via a type argument.

[mjwestgate]

labelling this as fixed