How to get binary data of attachment?

[PhoenixMing0912]

Hi all,

There is a sample coding which is from service now document.

var attachment_sys_id = 'bacd7034dbeaa3403aff6a4948964f28';
attachmentStream = new GlideSysAttachmentInputStream(attachment_sys_id);

However, attachmentStream is just something like "[B@89e840" but I want the real binary data.

I have read through documents but I didn' t find the answer.

Can anyone help me out?

[Deepak Ingale1]

If you want to transfer Binary to third part, you need to use "setRequestBodyFromAttachment" method of RESTMessageV2, 

setRequestBodyFromAttachment("sysIdOfAttachment")

This send the binary in request payload of web service

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[PhoenixMing0912]

I would try this, but actually I need to send some fields and attachment both, by using content type multi-part form data.

Now I concatenate all the fields and base64/binary of attachment into a string and set it into body by method "setRequestBody()". 

----Updated Content-----

I have tried this and got a 500 error.

request.setRequestBodyFromAttachment('bacd7034dbeaa3403aff6a4948964f28'); //sys id
request.setQueryParameter("xxx","xxx");

My third-party service wants the content in a mulitpart format.

"Content-Type","multipart/form-data; boundary=----4ZLQTMdAcvY01zbc46e699db"

[PhoenixMing0912]

Updated.

I have also tried "setRequestBodyFromAttachment("sysIdOfAttachment")" more times these days.

Yes, setRequestBodyFromAttachment("sysIdOfAttachment") send out in binary, but after I received the binary and convert to a bytes Array on my Java server, I found the bytes format is different from that of raw file. I think that's the reason why it cannot be uploaded to my third party server correctly.

[Anurag Tripathi]

Attachments in servicenow are saved in base64 encoding. Converting it to binary would be messy. 

[PhoenixMing0912]

I tried to send this base64 encoding to a Java server where I convert the encoding to binary, and then the binary was accepted by the third party server I mentioned.

So that's the reason I think the binary I got in service now side was wrong.