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TimBurns
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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 ...
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    robin
    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

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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

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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.