CMB2 Rest API – image/file field as an object

Hello,

I’m using the REST API from CMB2 to build out a headless CMS/static site, and I’m running into an issue I can’t find away around:

The file_list field type returns an object of key/value pairs with the ID of the image as the key. This enables me to hit the wordpress REST API and retrieve each image’s data (alt_text, width, height, etc).

However, the file field type only returns a string. That’s useful for just displaying the image, but it would be way more useful to also be able to access that file as an object. I can’t think of a way to do this without having the ID.

Is there any way to have the file field output be similar to file_list? Something like this?
{'123': 'https://site.com/wp-content/uploads/image.jpg'}

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