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Anyone ever try to use zlib in SuiteScript to compress data into a zip?

there are size limitations in 2.0 since the js engine is really bad at doing binary operations

hmmm ... are they client-side only ... or can I use them server side?

things that are designed to work in the browser tend to work better in suitescript than things designed for node

I'm hoping that situation might improve in SS2.1. Though I haven't really looked at the new engine - is it more 'browser-like' or 'nodejs-like'

browser like, they dont expose any of the node stuff

hopefully they also don't expose browser-only stuff in server-side engine (has been a problem in the past)

ss1 had a window variable, used not to represent the window

yes, and IIRC SS2.1 has a 'console' variable that does nothing as far as I can tell. I think I filed a ticket on that and they may have fixed it.

imho there shouldn't be anything exposed to us in the runtime that isn't documented.

especially if it's something that can fool a library script, like `window` or `console`

<@U5FHY30BV> did you end up using zlib or jszip?  I am looking into creating zip files