Question
Accenture
SG
Last activity: 19 Jan 2017 2:47 EST
Convert email attachment to binary form
Hi All,
I have a requirment to send email attachment (this can be .msg, .pdf, .jpg ect...) to 3rd party system via service API.
In this case PEGA will act as a client and it has browse button to attach the target email attachment. Internally we need to convert attachment to binary stream to pass to target 3rd party API.
Is there any way to convert attachment to Binary form?
Kind regards,
Chanaka.
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Pegasystems Inc.
US
Hi,
I've never done this myself, but the following community post looks like it could be helpful:
https://collaborate.pega.com/discussion/how-get-attachment-data-work-object-binary-format
Hope this helps!
-Kurt
Pegasystems Inc.
IN
Hi Chanaka,
Please refer the below link for reference.
https://collaborate.pega.com/question/sending-binary-message-body-connect-rest
Updated: 11 Jan 2017 11:37 EST
Pegasystems Inc.
US
Hi Chanakya,
In Pega we use Base64Utils class to convert the data into the bytearray with the help of encode and decode methods in it. You can look into the Base64Utils class methods and use the appropriate one. For further information kindly refer SendEmailMessage function where the email attachments are converted into the bytearray which is used in the pyInvokeRestConnector.
Regards,
Mahesh
Areteans Technology Solutions
AU
Infosys
AU
Assuming that the attachments received with the email are base64 encoded (This is the default pega behaviour), You could use OOTB functions / API available in PRPC to base64 decode to binary content. This binary content would be a stream of bytes that you can pass to your API .