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receive PDF from API

MichalBezak1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:37:00 GMT

HI All,

I need to receive the PDF from API as File.

Below is a screenshot from API docs

What I'm receiving is Respond content below: How can I transform it to PDF file?, or is there any option how to receive already a file and wave it in PC

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9 0 obj
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/Type /ExtGState
/ca 1
>>
endobj
10 0 obj
<<
/Type /ExtGState
/ca 1
/CA 1
>>
endobj
12 0 obj
<<
/Type /ExtGState
/CA 1
>>
endobj
8 0 obj
<<
/Type /Page
/Parent 1 0 R
/MediaBox [0 0 595.28 841.89]
/Contents 6 0 R
/Resources 7 0 R
>>
endobj
7 0 obj
<<
/ProcSet [/PDF /Text /ImageB /ImageC /ImageI]
/ExtGState <<
/Gs1 9 0 R
/Gs2 10 0 R
/Gs3 12 0 R
>>
/XObject <<
/I1 5 0 R
>>
/Font <<
/F1 11 0 R
/F2 13 0 R
>>
>>
endobj
6 0 obj
<<
/Length 3844
/Filter /FlateDecode
>>
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Michal Bezak
HW analysist
IBM ISC
Europe/Bratislava
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RE: receive PDF from API

shashank.kumar280 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 15:49:00 GMT

Hi,

You can use action 'HTTP Request File' from 'Utility - HTTP' object https://github.com/blue-prism/http-communication-utility

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Shashank Kumar
DX Integrations Partner Consultant
Blue Prism
Singapore
+6581326707
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RE: receive PDF from API

AndreyKudinov — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 17:37:00 GMT

You have your pdf, now just save it with Utility - File Management - Write Binary Data action.

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Andrey Kudinov
Project Manager
MobileTelesystems PJSC
Europe/Moscow
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RE: receive PDF from API

MichalBezak1 — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:02:00 GMT

Hi Andrey,

Any suggestions?

I found a code stage which should convert text to binary but it's not working as my response content is not just plain text

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Michal Bezak
HW analysist
IBM ISC
Europe/Bratislava
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RE: receive PDF from API

AndreyKudinov — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 21:30:00 GMT

What are you using to call your API and get pdf?
Utility - HTTP or Web API services?

Here is slightly modified action for Utility - HTTP that returns binary:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/aikudinov/1f06b8e794064f08d84e4628e8ce8885/raw/f5d180e6cff4f73a0021e194e94fecb97707c177/gistfile1.txt

I'm not sure if Web API can receive binary properly. Last time we needed that Web API was not released yet and we used that action above + I read later here somewhere that it wont work with Web API, but things might have changed. I would need find something to test on to check that.

p.s. Similar discussion
p.p.s. You don't have to actually get stream to binary data item and then write it - just something I had at hand already working.
You can just save it directly to a file in VBO code stage, but sometimes binary can be useful too - like you can extract files from zip stream without saving anything to a disc etc.

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Andrey Kudinov
Project Manager
MobileTelesystems PJSC
Europe/Moscow
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