Multipart request to 3rd party

[Parvathy B1]

I have a requirement to send a multipart request having an input Json and input file. The input file is a compressed zip file in ServiceNow and expectation at third party is to have type string and binary format for the file as in screenshot. Also, the testing from Postman is successful as it allows a direct upload of the file from system. Is this feasible from ServiceNow and will the file content have any issue being compressed zip file?

Please help with the script/approach for this if feasible

[Shivalika]

Hello @Parvathy B1 

You can use below code to send attachment in binary format - 

var sa = new GlideSysAttachment();
                var StringUtil = new GlideStringUtil();
                //Get the base64 encoding of the attachment
                var binData = sa.getBytes(singleattachmentsysid);
                var encData = GlideStringUtil.base64Encode(binData);

Now for multiple just add loop. 

i hope this answers your queries. 

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[Shivalika]

hello @Parvathy B1 

I had also explored "Attachment API" in REST API explorer few days back and it does return the "binary format precisely"

Refer screenshot - 

You can use this as well for exact. 

This is a demonstration video on Attachment API - https://youtu.be/VqCxt1vSvIE?si=-3dfGQ71OLFpMYMJ

In case that helps. 

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[Ankur Bawiskar]

@Parvathy B1 

handling sending of multi-part is somewhat complex

check these links

Multipart/form-data attachment pusg using Rest API from Snow->Jira 

Outbound REST - Multipart/form-data 

REST API attachments Transfer to JIRA 

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