Attachment files other than "txt" type are created as corrupted files

[Hitesh Patel3]

var decodedContent = GlideStringUtil.base64Decode(content);
var gsa = new GlideSysAttachment();
var attachmentSysID = gsa.write(grTarget, fileName, contentType, decodedContent);

Where -

• "content" is base64 encoded text for the attachment file.
• "grTarget" is the object of the target record.
• "filename" is the attachment file name.
• "contentType" is the type of the attachment file to be created.

           
The above code is working properly when the contentType is "txt" but for other types of files (images/pdf etc.) it's not working properly - it's creating corrupted image/pdf. Any idea - what's the issue here?
I tried using writeBase64() function instead of just write() - but no help!

P.S: I tried to paste the raw base 64 encoded text into https://www.base64decode.org/ and decoded it from there manually - it created the image/pdf files in expected format.

Message was edited by: Hitesh Patel

[amlesh · Accepted solution]

Please use 'base64DecodeAsBytes'

[Hitesh Patel3]

Thanks Amlesh for the answer. Using the function base64DecodeAsBytes() instead of base64Decode() resolved my issue.

[abhishekmittal]

But GlideStringUtil is not allowed in scoped applications. Then what would be the solution for Scopped apps?

[amlesh]

you can create a global script include with the attachment parse code and call it from your scope.