Re: Serving a SOAP or REST webservice server and return a pdf to consumer

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Are you going to be using XML or JSON?  Both have ways to send binary data.

With either , I've seen most shops will convert the binary data to Base64
and include that in a JSON/XML object.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 12:32 PM, Arco Simonse <arco400@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> We are exploring the possibilities for serving a SOAP or REST webservice
> server on our i. (we are at 7.3 TR1)
> Nadir Amra wrote a bundle of nice articles on that starting at
> https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/ibmi/library/i-
> rest-web-services-server1.
> Very helpful!
>
> What we can't figure out is how we could return a pdf or other binary
> document within the response to the consumer.
> Can anyone point me to articles or documentation on this subject?
>
> Many thanks,
> -Arco
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