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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.

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
7185_rest-get-pdf_2020_04_02.slp8 KB

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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
7185_rest-get-pdf_2020_04_02.slp8 KB
- 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
Former Employee
6 years ago
If you’re just trying to go from PDF to PDF, File Reader to File Writer should work.
- 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
    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.
dmiller
Former Employee
6 years ago
Understood.
aditya_gupta41
Contributor
3 years ago
Now it is coming as :

Require it as no \ and in single column. I think i might need to change something in CSV formatter snap.