PreloadJS - Loading an image from a URL without file format

Question

I'm trying to use PreloadJS to load an image. I took the getting started code from http://www.createjs.com/getting-started so,

function loadImage() {
  var preload = new createjs.LoadQueue();
  preload.addEventListener("fileload", handleFileComplete);
  preload.loadFile("assets/preloadjs-bg-center.png");
}
function handleFileComplete(event) {
  document.body.appendChild(event.result);
}

Which works great, but changing the URL to a custom one doesn't play so nice:

  preload.loadFile("http://localhost:3000/URLthatReturnsAnImageWithoutFileType");

I'm unable to render the image. I'm guessing the loadFile function parses the file type in the provided URL string. Is there a way to tell PreloadJS the provided asset is indeed an image and render it?

Answer 1

According to LoadQueue's documentation, the file type of an item is determined by it's file extension. If it doesn't have an extension, then you can pass in a type property:

      preload.loadFile({src:"hello", type:createjs.AbstractLoader.IMAGE});