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manohar
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Hi there, I am getting file data in base64 encoded. how do I get the file out of it?

to get file along with filename_2023_03_22.slp (373.8 KB)

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks
Manohar

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ddellsperger
Moderator
Moderator

To accomplish translation of a rest call (via the rest or http client snaps) to the actual binary, you need to follow it by a Mapper and Document to Binary, with your request snap entity being displayed as “Base64 encoded data” that just means it’s binary data under the covers and there’s just really not a way for that to be displayed in the JSON representation. You can auto-map the data in the mapper, but the big thing is translating the $entity in the upstream value to $content going into the Document to Binary snap, then you can set the encoding to “NONE”. I’ve added to your example pipeline to show you and am attaching that here.
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to get file along with filename_2023_03_22.slp (376.4 KB)

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ddellsperger
Moderator
Moderator

To accomplish translation of a rest call (via the rest or http client snaps) to the actual binary, you need to follow it by a Mapper and Document to Binary, with your request snap entity being displayed as “Base64 encoded data” that just means it’s binary data under the covers and there’s just really not a way for that to be displayed in the JSON representation. You can auto-map the data in the mapper, but the big thing is translating the $entity in the upstream value to $content going into the Document to Binary snap, then you can set the encoding to “NONE”. I’ve added to your example pipeline to show you and am attaching that here.
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to get file along with filename_2023_03_22.slp (376.4 KB)

You can also drop the Document to Binary and just change the Mapper’s output view type from Document to Binary:

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to get file along with filename, just mapper_2023_03_22.slp (375.3 KB)

thank you @ptaylor, appreciate your help.

@ddellsperger that did it, thank you for your quick help.