Hello Everyone,
I am receiving the binary data of a PDF using callAPI. Is there a way to display this in a web embedding? Either by converting the binary data into a PDF format as embedding it directly not working. Any guidance would be appreciated!
Oh I tried that so hard! Wasn’t able to make it uploadable even with an API capable of receiving raw binary file in raw text body. Glide adds \n for break line so it corrupt files.
So, basically there is no way to read binary files and display them in web embeddings?
I’m not saying it is impossible. I’m saying that even with a lot of effort, i wasn’t able to do it.
It’s possible. Only problem is that it can cause your app to be very sluggish. If you have lots of binary data. Here’s how I do it:
@Robert_Petitto did you ever try to call an API with this in the body?
I do something similar to Bob.
I need to interface with an external API that returns binary PDF files.
Because the Glide API can’t handle these, I use Make to fetch them, then push them in through the Glide API as base64 encoded text, and then display them in a Webview as a dataURI.
Wow, I did not think about that! Thank you!
