[SOLVED] UHTTP Raw data

Yes, nowadays, it's a real issue than we can't fetch raw data with uhttp. This is still a wish today : http://unifaceinfo.com/uhttp-to-be-able-to-grab-raw-data/ Because Response parameter is a string, it's impossible to get a simple pdf document : http://uniface.blogspot.be/2014/10/fetching-web-content.html Philippe

Philippe said Because Response parameter is a string, it's impossible to get a simple pdf document : http://uniface.blogspot.be/2014/10/fetching-web-content.html

For me it is incomprehensible why this parameter is still a string.

In my case, I had to build a new component to get/post raw content using OS component to call 'curl' (which is, partially, included in Uniface distribution).    

This is being worked on at the moment. It should be in the 9.6.07 update in May. 

 Did this get fixed in 9.6.07? We are still on 9.6.06, and whilst I can find updates to uhttp in the patch text files, none of them seem to specifically relate to this.  If it is fixed we need to update, but as this is a new release to all our customers, we don't want to unless it's fixed.  Iain

Iain Sharp said  Did this get fixed in 9.6.07? We are still on 9.6.06, and whilst I can find updates to uhttp in the patch text files, none of them seem to specifically relate to this. 

The following UHTTP enhancements have been added to Uniface 9.6.07/MX06 (for details see What's New in Uniface 9.6.07):

You can now integrate Uniface applications and cloud-based data storage services such as Amazon, DropBox, Google Drive, and Microsoft OneDrive that provide REST-compliant APIs.

To enable this, the Uniface UHTTP component has been enhanced to support binary file transport. The UHTTP component is Uniface's HTTP client and has operations that enable you to integrate communication with web sites (including REST-compliant services), implement basic browser functionality, and so on.

The following operations have been added:

• LOAD_FILE_CONTENTS—load a file, or part of a file, into the body of a request prior to calling SEND to upload to a REST API.
• DUMP_FILE_CONTENTS—declare the response of a SEND operation as a full or partial file download from a REST API.
• GET_INFO—get information about the about the body of the request or response, either before or after the SEND operation.
• CLOSE_FILE—close the current file that was being used for chunked file transfer.

More info about the new UHTTP operations can also be found here: Uniface Reference > APIs: Uniface Components > UHTTP Hope this helps. Daniel

None of those sound like the statement "The response from a GET operation may now be raw data, and will not be interpreted as a string...", so it's hard to know if it helps. 

Iain Sharp said None of those sound like the statement "The response from a GET operation may now be raw data, and will not be interpreted as a string...", so it's hard to know if it helps. 

The UHTTP SEND operation has not been changed: the Content parameter is still a String. If you want to (e.g.) download a binary file then you need to use the new operation DUMP_FILE_CONTENTS. Here's a small example that demonstrates how to download the PDF with the PAM for Uniface 9.6:

variables     handle vUhttp     string vUrl, vHeaders, vResp endvariables

newinstance "UHTTP", vUhttp vUrl = "http://unifaceinfo.com/download/4262/" vUhttp->SET_FLAGS(8)    ; GET send headers vUhttp->DUMP_FILE_CONTENTS("PAM96.pdf", "") vUhttp->SEND(vUrl, "GET", "", "", vHeaders, "", vResp) vUhttp->DUMP_FILE_CONTENTS("", "") For the sake of simplicity I've not included any error checking in the code. Hope this helps. Daniel

A new community sample Uniface UHTTP: Uploading files to Onedrive and downloading files from Onedrive has been added.  This sample also demonstrates how to use these new operations.   Kind regards Peter