Text File Utilities

RE: Text File Utilities

Appian AppMarket — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 23:00:00 GMT

v3.2.0 Release Notes

New Functions readMatchingLinesInFile & readMatchingLinesInFileRegex
Minor performance improvements to readTextFromFile

RE: Text File Utilities

balassubramani — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 16:04:54 GMT

Hi,

For Append text to file smart service, would it be better to append the content without loading the entire content into a variable? The following seem to be better approach to avoid loading the data into memory.

BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(documentInputStream));
Approval a = cs.createVersion(doc, ContentConstants.UNIQUE_NONE);
Long newVersionId = a.getId()[0];
Document newDoc = cs.download(newVersionId, ContentConstants.VERSION_CURRENT, false)[0];

try (DocumentOutputStream documentOutputStream = newDoc.getOutputStream();
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(documentOutputStream))) {

String line;
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
writer.write(line);
writer.newLine();
}
writer.write(textToAppend); // append directly, no memory buildup
}

RE: Text File Utilities

Appian AppMarket — Thu, 15 May 2025 22:00:00 GMT

v3.1.0 Release Notes

Updated deprecated API's.
Append Text to File smart service error fixed.

RE: Text File Utilities

nicklasa8925 — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 09:11:16 GMT

Hi,
We are on prem and have the Appian version 24.1... this new version has a minimum requierement that the version is 24.2.

is there any older version we could download of the Text File Utilities that supports the 24.1 version of Appian?

RE: Text File Utilities

Appian AppMarket — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 23:00:00 GMT

v3.0.2 Release Notes

Fixing issue with readtextfromfile reading from oldest version of document instead of current version

RE: Text File Utilities

davidl0016 — Fri, 22 Nov 2024 13:55:14 GMT

Hello,

We've found the following bug in the ReadTextFileExpression function in version 3.0.1 of the plugin related to the new file system api management.

Indeed, instead of using cs.getDocumentInputStream(txtFile), you should

use cs.getDocumentInputStream(cs.getVersionId(txtFileId, ContentConstants.VERSION_CURRENT)) otherwise the behaviour is very strange (mix of version and documentid content)

Regards

RE: Text File Utilities

Appian AppMarket — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 22:00:00 GMT

v3.0.1 Release Notes

Adding in logging for errors in AppendTextToFile

RE: Text File Utilities

normanc — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 14:35:33 GMT

The Smart Service "Append Text to File" has stopped working with release 3.0.0 !!

RE: Text File Utilities

Appian AppMarket — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 22:00:00 GMT

v3.0.0 Release Notes

Updating deprecated ContentService apis

RE: Text File Utilities

leonorf2782 — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 14:18:55 GMT

It is planned a new version for this plugin?
The heath check report is saying that is using deprecated API's.
In a future this can be a problem.

"Text File Utilities (com.appiancorp.plugins.filereader) references deprecated Appian APIs
[deprecated] com.appiancorp.suiteapi.content.ContentService.getInternalFilename(java.lang.Long)
[deprecated] com.appiancorp.suiteapi.knowledge.Document.getInternalFilename()"

RE: Text File Utilities

rohithchebolu — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 07:11:40 GMT

can anyone tell how should we implement the function readTextFromFile in our inteface and what inputs should we provide for the parameters.

RE: Text File Utilities

catalinp0003 — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 07:43:02 GMT

Is this still working on 21.x version or higher? We have a dependency inside one of Appian application that is on Appian Market- GUM (Groups & Users Management)

RE: Text File Utilities

daniel0004 — Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:17:52 GMT

I can´t get the "Append text to File" Smart Service to work.

Is it working for anybody?

RE: Text File Utilities

justins797 — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 23:26:29 GMT

We are using this plug-in, and in Appian health check report it's flagged as high risk because it's referencing the removed/deprecated Appian APIs. So, will there be an update that will address these issues?

RE: Text File Utilities

kamruddinm — Mon, 21 Jan 2019 14:56:43 GMT

Hi Michael,

What is the maximum size of the file that can be read using the function readTextFromFile ?