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(I think this is what happened. Haven’t thought about the code since I posted above what I ended up doing.)

I found those fields via the returned JSON from the WP Media API after my initial success in uploading a photo via the WC Media API. The documentation from https://developer.ww.wp.xz.cn/rest-api/reference/media/ is pretty sparse on details. Note the title field is defined as an object, but there are not details as to what is contained in the object. On examining the returned media JSON I saw those fields in the title field and gave them a try to see if the photos would retain the proper SKU-01 type naming convention – which they did.

I think I totally screwed up my question/response. (If you haven’t guessed by now I am a complete newbie at this)

But to answer your question of when the value is to be calculated. I want the plug method to be called prior to the page being sent to the browser.

The way I *thought* this might work was:
1. User is directed to the WordPress page
2. WordPress sees the shortcode and calls associated filter function that points to the plugin method that returns text (eventually the plugin method will call a different server and return some html.)
3. WordPress get the text (html) from the plugin method and adds it to the webpage.
4. WordPress then sends the composed webpage to the browser.

Perhaps my question should simply be: How can I have a WordPress page call a plugin function and incorporate the returned text from the plugin into the web page?

OK. Here’s a bit of a summary that will hopefully save someone hours or days of spinning wheels.

Got everything working for product and image uploads and Android app is being used in production. Here’s abbreviated WC setup I used.

1. Created ‘Android App’ user.
2. Created WC API key for ‘Android App’ and set access to ‘Read/Write’
3. Applied FAST CGI fix and JSON basic auth – https://support.metalocator.com/en/articles/1654091-wp-json-basic-auth-with-fastcgi
4. To keep WP from overwriting above changes also updated .htaccess file per https://perishablepress.com/stop-wordpress-changing-htaccess/.
5. Installed WC Media API – https://ww.wp.xz.cn/plugins/woo-media-api/
6. Activated WC Media API Plugin
7. Updated WC plugin file – https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/mime-type-image/
8. In my particular case every WC product is unique with it’s own SKU. To upload photos with image names related to the SKU, the SKU with appended photo sequence number were placed into the media.title.raw and media.title.rendered fields (Otherwise photos got names of ‘T’, ‘T-1’ as noted in prior post)
9. But WC would duplicate the photos uploaded and assign an additional sequence number, i.e. if I uploaded image SKU-01.jpg it created a SKU-01-1.jpg and then associated SKU-01-1.jpg to the product. The original uploaded photo was then extraneous. So my app logic was:
a. Upload product info to create new product
b. Upload photo(s), use the returned source_url value in next step
c. Associate photos to product by updating product, placing source_url value into product.image.src field
d. Delete the original uploaded photos

Thanks for the tip. For reference, I searched for the post and found https://ww.wp.xz.cn/support/topic/mime-type-image/. I passed it on to the server guy and we will give it a try. Stay tuned.

Still getting some error after fixing month value in url. Still looking around for a fix.