send attachment in RESTMessageV2

[Michael Culhan1]

I'm trying to send an attachment to a third party service (DocParser) in order to extract the text via OCR and return back structured data.

The api documentation for DocParser says to use form-data in the body with file_content as they key and the file content in base64 encoding as the value.  How can I achieve this with the RESTMessageV2 ?  I can get the base64 encoding (GlideSysAttachment.getContentBase64()), but I can't figure out how to put this into the body using form-data.  setRequestBody seems to be for strings and setRequestBodyFromAttachment changes the whole body to binary.  Thanks in advance!

[Deepen Shah]

Hi Michael

You can pass that as String only. For e.g

var json = {};
json['file_content'] = "<base64_data>";

var restMessage = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2();

restMessage.setRequestBody(JSON.stringify(json));

Try this and let us know.

Regards
Deepen shah
aavenir.com

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Michael C 

you can send multi-part form data via Rest Message

refer below links

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

Outbound REST - Multipart/form-data

Outbound REST - Multipart/form-data

REST API attachments Transfer to JIRA

Regards
Ankur