Let the image-based validations use an image style to reduce tokens (#3601250) · Issues · project / ai_validations

Let the image-based validations use an image style to reduce tokens

>>> [!note] Migrated issue   Reported by: [marcus_johansson](https://www.drupal.org/user/385947) Related to !9 >>> <h2>Problem/Motivation</h2> All three image-based field validation rules — AI image constraint (<code>AiImageConstraintValidator</code>, vision chat), AI image classification constraint (<code>AiImageClassificationConstraintValidator</code>) and AI object detection constraint (<code>AiObjectDetectionConstraintValidator</code>) — send the full-size original upload to the provider. Each loads the <code>File</code> and wraps it unchanged with <code>$image->setFileFromFile($file)</code>. For the vision-chat rule that is wasteful: most vision models bill image input as tokens proportional to the image's dimensions, so a multi-megapixel upload costs many times more tokens than is needed to answer a yes/no validation question. For the classification and object-detection rules a full-size original means a larger payload, slower requests and, on hosted providers, higher cost — even though the model rarely needs the original resolution. Drupal already ships the tool to fix this: image styles produce a downscaled derivative. <h2>Proposed resolution</h2> Add an optional Image style setting to each of the three image rules. When a style is selected, the validator runs the upload through that image style and sends the derivative to the provider instead of the original; when left empty it falls back to the original (current behaviour), so the change is fully backward compatible. <h2>Implementation</h2> Mirror the change across the three rule/validator pairs. 1. Rule plugins — in <code>AiImageConstraintFieldValidationRule</code>, <code>AiImageClassificationConstraintFieldValidationRule</code> and <code>AiObjectDetectionConstraintFieldValidationRule</code>: add <code>'image_style' => NULL</code> to <code>defaultConfiguration()</code>, add a <code>select</code> element in <code>buildConfigurationForm()</code> populated by <code>\Drupal\image\Entity\ImageStyle::loadMultiple()</code> (with an empty "— Original —" option), and persist it in <code>submitConfigurationForm()</code>. Expose the value on the constraint so the validator can read <code>$constraint->image_style</code>. 2. Validators — after the <code>File</code> is loaded and before building the <code>ImageFile</code>, branch on the configured style: <code>$image = new ImageFile();</code> if a style id is set, load it, compute <code>$uri = $style->buildUri($file->getFileUri());</code>, create the derivative when missing with <code>$style->createDerivative($file->getFileUri(), $uri);</code> and feed it in with <code>$image->setFileFromUri($uri);</code> — otherwise keep <code>$image->setFileFromFile($file);</code>. <code>AbstractFileBase</code> already provides <code>setFileFromUri()</code>, so no new AI-core API is needed. Files to touch: src/Plugin/FieldValidationRule/AiImageConstraintFieldValidationRule.php, src/Plugin/FieldValidationRule/AiImageClassificationConstraintFieldValidationRule.php, src/Plugin/FieldValidationRule/AiObjectDetectionConstraintFieldValidationRule.php, src/Plugin/Validation/Constraint/AiImageConstraintValidator.php, src/Plugin/Validation/Constraint/AiImageClassificationConstraintValidator.php, src/Plugin/Validation/Constraint/AiObjectDetectionConstraintValidator.php (plus the matching <code>*Constraint.php</code> classes to declare the new public property). <h2>Notes</h2> Image styles only apply to raster derivatives — guard against failure and fall back to the original when <code>createDerivative()</code> returns FALSE (e.g. SVG or an unsupported MIME type) so validation never hard-fails on a derivative problem. The token saving is most pronounced for the vision-chat AI image constraint, where input tokens scale with image dimensions, but reduced upload size benefits the classification and detection rules too. Recommend a sensible downscale (for example a ~1024px-bounded style) as guidance in the field description, and add the selected style as a config dependency of the field so exports stay consistent.

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