Received a raw image data from a server request (l...
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hjihyo
08/10/2021, 1:06 AMReceived a raw image data from a server request (like screenshot below). How can a backend Suitelet display the image or view the document?
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battk
08/10/2021, 5:45 AMN/https does not handle binary well
battk
08/10/2021, 5:47 AMall those � characters are encoding errors from an attempt to convert to utf-8
battk
08/10/2021, 5:48 AMyou cant actually reverse that because the encoding error doesnt actually represent the binary content
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battk
08/10/2021, 5:51 AMgenerally your only chance for working with binary data is receiving an encoded version of it, usually base 64
battk
08/10/2021, 5:51 AMgenerally netsuite only does that when the content type header on the response is correct
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hjihyo
08/10/2021, 6:07 AMOh I see, thank you! So it's more of a limitation of https.get huh. If the server can't send base64, any alternative you have for doing an http request?
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battk
08/10/2021, 6:25 AMif the server correctly sets the content type header, netsuite may do the base 64 encoding for you
battk
08/10/2021, 6:26 AMotherwise you will need to do at least part of your code outside of suitescript on another application server
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hjihyo
08/10/2021, 6:51 AMYes looks like it. So basically a custom module where all it does is do an http get request without using the https module.
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battk
08/10/2021, 6:52 AMas in you do logic outside of netsuite
battk
08/10/2021, 6:53 AMwhere you have more control
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hjihyo
08/10/2021, 7:03 AMOh I see. Would you have any samples or documentation? I only know NetSuite tbh
hjihyo
08/10/2021, 7:04 AMI'm seeing fetch as alternative. Just not sure how I can integrate it with NetSuite as it looks to work only on client side.
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battk
08/10/2021, 7:10 AMyou have effectively learned javascript wrong if you only know it through suitescript
battk
08/10/2021, 7:13 AMusual answer is to pick your favorite programming language and use whatever application server it offers
battk
08/10/2021, 7:13 AMif the answer was javascript, that usually means nodejs
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hjihyo
08/10/2021, 7:14 AMGotcha I'll look into it. Thanks!!
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battk
08/10/2021, 7:15 AMthe other approach is to use one of the many cloud based integration that try to simply integration tasks
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hjihyo
08/10/2021, 8:04 AMI'm looking into nodejs now. I'm able to connect to to the server using https.get of node. Now I just need to know how my NetSuite Script can call this.
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battk
08/10/2021, 8:31 AMdepends on what your design is
battk
08/10/2021, 8:31 AMyou can setup a web server on node js so that you can send requests to it from netsuite using N/https
battk
08/10/2021, 8:32 AMor you can start from nodejs and make requests from node js to netsuite
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hjihyo
08/10/2021, 8:45 AMI just did NodeJS. So here's what happened
N/https.get -> Receive binary data -> Base 64 value
NodeJS https.get -> Receive binary data -> Base 64 value
And they both had the same base64 value. The only application who can correctly render the image is Postman.
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battk
08/10/2021, 9:52 AMWhat did the node code look like
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hjihyo
08/11/2021, 1:59 AMmessage has been deleted
hjihyo
08/11/2021, 2:00 AMDo you think Blobs could receive the N/https.get response and convert it to base64 instead?
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battk
08/11/2021, 4:53 AMyour data callback is implicitly using .toString, chunk is not a string
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hjihyo
08/11/2021, 7:04 AMwhats a better way to represent that as to a base 64?
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battk
08/11/2021, 7:08 AMyou cant do the encoding until you have all the data
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hjihyo
08/11/2021, 8:02 AMgotcha thank you so much!