Re: [Pharo-project] How do download a binary file as a stream with Zinc?

July 25, 2012


      On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 11:46 AM, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@beta9.be>wrote:
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Hi Mariano,
(I can't access the file you gave as an example, probably an extra
#username:password: is needed)
Yes, in fact, that was the problem ;)
...
You are making it more difficult than it has to be: this gives you the
bytes you want
ZnClient new
        get: 'http://zn.stfx.eu/zn/string.fuel'.
With some better system parameters this becomes
ZnClient new
        systemPolicy;
        beOneShot;
        accept: ZnMimeType applicationOctetStream;
        url: 'http://zn.stfx.eu/zn/string.fuel';
        get.
But what you really want is something like:
ZnClient new
        systemPolicy;
        beOneShot;
        accept: ZnMimeType applicationOctetStream;
        url: 'http://zn.stfx.eu/zn/string.fuel';
        contentReader: [ :entity | FLMaterializer
materializeFromByteArray: entity contents ];
        get.
You can experiment with #streaming: true but that is only worth it for
large (MB) files. IMHO.
Thanks Sven, very informative.
...
HTH,
Sven
On 24 Jul 2012, at 23:06, Mariano Martinez Peck wrote:
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Hi Sven. How can I download a binary file to a bytearray ?
I tried to download it locally doing:
ZnClient new
        systemPolicy;
        accept: ZnMimeType applicationOctetStream;
        url: '
https://ci.lille.inria.fr/pharo/view/Pharo%202.0/job/pharo-2.0-tests/Archite...
';
        downloadTo: '/Users/mariano/Desktop'.
but I cannot even do that. Notice that my final go is not to download it
to a file, but rather directly get the binary contents.
How can I do that?
Thanks,
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Mariano
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Mariano
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