pdf, png, jpg to Binary conversion

RE: pdf, png, jpg to Binary conversion

davel001150 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 15:26:27 GMT

What do you ultimately want to do with it once it's binary? Store it in a BLOB column in a database? Send it across a webservice? Wouldn't you rather do base64 in that case?

RE: pdf, png, jpg to Binary conversion

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 13:41:05 GMT

Agreed with Stefan - in conventional terminology, those file types are already "binary" - so if you mean something different it would help if you could clarify.

RE: pdf, png, jpg to Binary conversion

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:51:19 GMT

A file cannot be converted into binary as it already is binary. But this is a file system perspective.

When I look at integrations I think that Appian should already do that by default.

https://docs.appian.com/suite/help/22.2/Integration_Content_Types.html#

docs.appian.com/.../Integration_Object.html

What exactly did you try?

RE: pdf, png, jpg to Binary conversion

navneetk0003 — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 11:40:53 GMT

By "Binary format" I mean how to convert pdf into Binary.

We will get these documents and we need to send them for further processing and we cannot send them as it is we need to convert those pdf, jpg, png into binary

RE: pdf, png, jpg to Binary conversion

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:52:33 GMT

What do you mean with "binary format"?

What is your use case?