setBinaryData

There are two setBinaryData methods: SOAP and REST.



SOAP has example written in Java. REST has no example. It's essentially identical to setDataField API.

Could you explain about ByteArr?

I was not able to find class ByteArr in Java



in the question, i meant that I am not sure about ByteArr.

You should use Rollbase WSDL. Typically SOAP framework creates Java stubs from WSDL which can be compiled and used by client code.



If you're new to SOAP you may find it easier to use REST - this way you'll need only HTTP client.

Sorry, Pavel.

I am not familiar with Byte Array.



Can you take a look at my code and see what I am not doing wrong.



File new_file = new File(move_dir+filename);

InputStream ins = new FileInputStream(new_file);

ByteArrayOutputStream baos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();



try {

int read=0;

byte[] data = new byte[(int)new_file.length()];

while ( (read = ins.read(data)) != -1 ) {

baos.write(data, 0, read);

}

} catch (IOException ex) {}



String post_url="http://localhost:8080/rest/api/setBinaryData";

HttpClient httpclient=new HttpClient();

PostMethod pmethod=new PostMethod(post_url);



pmethod.addParameter("sessionId",session_id);

pmethod.addParameter("id",id);

pmethod.addParameter("fieldName","pdf_document");

pmethod.addParameter("contentType","application/pdf");

pmethod.addParameter("fileName",filename);

pmethod.addParameter("binData",baos.toByteArray().toString());

httpclient.executeMethod(pmethod);



Thanks,



Jae

I don't see Base64 encoding. Consider this modification which uses org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64



File new_file = new File(move_dir+filename);



int n = (int)new_file.length();

byte[] arr = new byte[n];



InputStream ins = new FileInputStream(new_file);

ins.read(arr, 0, n);

ins.close();



String post_url="http://localhost:8080/rest/api/setBinaryData";

HttpClient httpclient=new HttpClient();

PostMethod pmethod=new PostMethod(post_url);



pmethod.addParameter("sessionId",session_id);

pmethod.addParameter("id",id);

pmethod.addParameter("fieldName","pdf_document");

pmethod.addParameter("contentType","application/pdf");

pmethod.addParameter("fileName",filename);

pmethod.addParameter("binData", Base64.encodeBase64String(arr));

httpclient.executeMethod(pmethod);





You can do the same in PHP using CURL package.

Hello Pavel,



I tried your code and it populate the record without any error, but when I see the uploaded file, it is 0 sized file.

It seems it does not uploaded properly.

is there another way to convert a file to binary array?



Thanks.

I had the same problem. How I fixed it was to use urlencode with PHP. Here's my full code which works:



This code downloads an attachment record from rollbase, then merges them and creates a new attachment record and uploads the merged pdf attachment.







/*

* Performs a REST call (POST or GET)

*/

function REST($type,$url,$action,$params)

{

if ($type === "POST")

{

$session = curl_init($url);

curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POST, true);

curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $params);

curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

curl_setopt($session, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);

$response = curl_exec($session);

curl_close($session);



if ($action === "create")

{

$respXML = new SimpleXMLElement($response);

$createdID = xml_attribute($respXML, 'id');

return $createdID;

}

else if ($action === "setBinaryData" || $action === "setDataField")

{

print_r($response);

$pos = strrpos($response, "has been cleared on");

if ($pos ===

Take note of the urlencode function plus the base64 encode function: (PHP)



$encodedPdf = urlencode(chunk_split(base64_encode($pdfBinary)));

Thanks for sharing your code. It is important to use correct parameter name "value" for encoded data: it was "binData" in original post.