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The Bank of Nova Scotia
CA
Last activity: 18 Jun 2022 13:01 EDT
RestClient response with pdf
I am connecting to a Rest API that returns a PDF document in its response. Using C# code I'm able to download the pdf from the IRestResponse RawBytes method. Code sample below:
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
using (BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(File.Open(@"c:\temp\abc.pdf", FileMode.Create))) { writer.Write(response.RawBytes); }
However using the Pega Rest Client component the response is a string object and returns some other characters. Is there a way to download the document using the Pega component?
Jabil
US
@SreejaP3444 , Without more info I'm making a couple assumptions:
- Your REST service is indeed responding with binary data, and not encoded data inside a JSON or XML body or similar.
- The Pega REST call is configured with any necessary request headers to induce your server to encode the response in the same way as your C# call.
If that is true, then are you receiving the response into a text property? In that case, Pega probably "helpfully" Base64 encodes the response. You could utilize that for storage and decode on demand, or you could follow the general idea here...
The key of course being a Property of type Java Object. I'm betting the actual response will be byte[], but then Pega won't interfere to try to convert it to a String. If you need to store the response, the Repository API is super helpful now to write via Java InputStreams.