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TimBurns
New Contributor III
6 years ago
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How to stream a binary PDF file to a file using Snaplogic

I am trying to stream a binary PDF file to a file using Snaplogic.

The equivalent would be to the following command:

curl “http://www.pdf995.com/samples/pdf.pdf” --output …/out/pdf.pdf

Is this possible?

Note the output doesn’t seem to be amenable to Document to Binary or any of the snaps I’ve tried.

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REST

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  • robin's avatar
    robin
    Former Employee
    6 years ago

    You can stream files from HTTP via either REST GET Snap (with Binary as the “Response Entity Type” setting value) or the File Reader Snap.

    Pipeline: 7185_rest-get-pdf_2020_04_02.slp (7.9 KB)

    If you are calling an endpoint that sends a multipart response, you may also consider leveraging our Multipart Reader Snap

    • TimBurns's avatar
      TimBurns
      New Contributor III
      6 years ago

      Thanks! That’s exactly what I needed. Good to know that I can tweak the output on the mapper to cast a binary document to a binary stream.

  • dmiller's avatar
    dmiller
    Former Employee
    6 years ago

    If you’re just trying to go from PDF to PDF, File Reader to File Writer should work.

    • TimBurns's avatar
      TimBurns
      New Contributor III
      6 years ago

      I’m not sure how it would work. The GET object is a multi-part response.

      Here’s what a file reader on the binary response looks like.

      • TimBurns's avatar
        TimBurns
        New Contributor III
        6 years ago

        To clarify, I am making a dynamic all to a web service, the static reference is only to simplify the technical aspect.