Purge image derivatives

This problem should have been fixed at 1.1.0 with this issue: https://www.drupal.org/project/purge_file/issues/3308665 ✨ Include Query String Variants in Purge Request Fixed . May you enable the wildcard option at the purge file configuration, and check if that solves the issue?

If that solves the problem, we could improve the documentation to explain how to solve problems with image style derivatives.

The wildcard functionality is not sufficient to purge the image files generated by image styles. In this case, the URLs of the derived images vary in their middle structure, so a wildcard at the end of the original image URL would not apply to the derived ones.

The derived images are not constituted as file entities, so when the file entity is deleted, the Styles module directly deletes all the files that have been generated that are derived images.

I have created a proposal that has a fundamental problem related to the number of image styles that may exist in an installation.

When there are many image styles, the system to check if they exist can take 2-3 seconds. This is because the check is done exclusively in the context of deleting the entity and by making a HEAD request to the image URL. If the image is cached and needs to be purged, it will return a 200 status; otherwise, it can be omitted since it does not exist in the cache. This check is done to avoid send unnecessary requests to the API.

Perhaps this could be solved by implementing queues, and there is an issue about this.

On the other hand, maybe is not so serious to send requests to the API asking to remove cache objects that does not exists.

Anyway, I think that the implementation of queues should be mandatory for this implementation, to avoid that in this border cases (sites with many Image Styles) can happen bugs.

To me, it sounds like this is not within the scope of this project.

There should be a project dedicated to image derivatives, or Purge itself should support it, since it is a core feature.