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Octet-Stream File Upload in Nintex Xtensions

  • Oct 1, 2020 11:18 AM UTC
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I want to integreate a service to my Workflow Cloud with a file upload. 

 

I have defined the parameters according to the documentation.

 

Like this:

 

 "parameters": [
          
          {
            "name": "modelId",
            "in": "path",
            "description": "Format - uuid. Model identifier.",
            "required": true,
            "type": "string"
          },
          {
            "name": "includeTextDetails",
            "in": "query",
            "description": "Include text lines and element references in the result.  Default: false.",
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          {
            "name": "source",
            "in": "body",
            "required": true,
            "schema": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "binary"
            }
          }
        ],
 
But my action expects a string, not a file upload. (See attached image)
Is that a bug?
Or what must the input look like?
Or is there something wrong in my definition?
 
The other file upload types do not seem to be supported by the service, so i want to try this one.
 
Thanks in advance and best regards
Dave

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    butlerj
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    • butlerjNintex Employee
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    • Oct 1, 2020 2:41 PM UTC

    @DataOneDave I think this issue might be the OpenAPI version that you're working with. NWC currently supports OpenAPI 2 (though work is being done to support OpenAPI 3), so it looks like you would want to use a slightly different format: https://swagger.io/docs/specification/2-0/file-upload/

     

    Hope that helps!

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      • DataOneDaveNintex Partner
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      • Oct 1, 2020 3:10 PM UTC

      @butlerj

      Thanks for the quick reply



      you mean octet-stream is not supported by Swagger 2.0 ?

      I followed this documentation, so it should work, right?



      https://help.nintex.com/en-US/xtensions/04_Reference/REF_OpenAPISwipeFile.htm#File_handling



      I have already tried it with multipart/form-data. Unfortunately the service does not accept this type.

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      butlerj
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      • butlerjNintex Employee
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      • Oct 1, 2020 3:19 PM UTC

      @DataOneDave interesting. I'll need to circle with one of my devs to check that out, as I was under the impression that we didn't support octet-stream due to the Swagger version, but the fact that it's in the help files is making me question my sanity a little :?

       

      Will let you know as soon as I have a confirmation one way or the other. 

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        • DataOneDaveNintex Partner
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        • Oct 1, 2020 3:25 PM UTC
        haha ok. 🙂 Thank you very much @butlerj
        would be great if we could solve this. 🙂
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        • DataOneDaveNintex Partner
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        • Mar 1, 2021 11:28 AM UTC

        @butlerj is there a solution in the meantime?  😇
        Or is the information in the documentation wrong?

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        butlerj
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        • Mar 9, 2021 5:43 PM UTC

        Hi @DataOneDave sorry I completely lost track of this post. I'm not sure if there is a workaround, but let me circle with the team again and see what I can find. I've made myself an action item so I don't lose it this time :?

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        butlerj
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        • Mar 9, 2021 11:53 PM UTC

        @DataOneDave just to confirm you're entire structure looks like this correct:

         

        { "upload": { "summary": "Analyze Form", "description": "Upload form", "operationId": "UploadForm", "consumes": [ "application/octet-stream" ], "parameters": [ { "name": "modelId", "in": "path", "description": "Format - uuid. Model identifier.", "required": true, "type": "string" }, { "name": "includeTextDetails", "in": "query", "description": "Include text lines and element references in the result. Default: false.", "type": "boolean" }, { "name": "source", "in": "body", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string", "format": "binary" } } ] }
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        • awillemsen
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        • Sep 19, 2025 2:04 PM UTC

        And you never heard from it again and it is still in the documentation.

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        • awillemsen
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        • Sep 19, 2025 2:05 PM UTC

        Same issue need to upload files to azure blob storage via rest api

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