We call a REST web service which returns a XML with field containing a document

William over 11 years ago

We call a REST web service which returns a XML with field containing a document binary stream (in base64). In Appian process model, we use a text PV to receive this web service result XML. How can we extract this binary field into another text PV so that we can further convert it to a document?
Note that we tried xpathsnippet() but it failed to parse such XML....

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0 Owen Parrish
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over 11 years ago

Did you get an error using xpathsnippet()?
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0 William over 11 years ago

The XML contains both text fields and a binary field which corresponds to a document. I think the Send Http Request plug-in cannot handle such "mixed" web service response. We now made a change to that web service to just return that binary field only and then we managed to convert it to a document. Thanks.
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0 eaglez over 11 years ago

hi, can you tell me how to convert a binary stream to a document?

thanks in advance
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0 moritzw over 11 years ago

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