Developer Guidelines

Be respectful of system resource utilization

• Access resources only once per session and make use of short-lived local cache

• Only retrieve resources with a high likelihood of immediate user access

• Limit look ahead to a reasonable number of pages

• Constrain the size of resources used in fast scrolls to thumbnails

• Access smaller resources rather than doing local downsizing

• Limit polling to resources immediately required only

• Employ a managed local cache to avoid retrieving the same rendition multiple times, but be aware that renditions can change

• Avoid retrieving and caching unneeded resources

Store only supported file types and valid files in Lightroom

• Failure to create thumbnails or import a file through a Lightroom application are both indications a given file is not supported

• Invalid or unsupported files may be deleted

Limit retries

• Responses with a 500 may indicate a temporary error condition and should be retried, after backing off.

• Retries should be limited - 3

• See https://status.adobe.com/ for system status

• Contact Adobe should 500 errors persist

• Other http errors should only be retried as guided in the documentation

Use the documentation

• Undocumented features and functionality may cease to work without notice in a future release.

• Please discuss any additional API or data needs with Adobe

Adobe reserves the right to avoid abuse of system resources. Failure to follow this guidance may result in a warning and possible revocation of your license keys