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Availability

Since Orbeon Forms 4.7.

Internal uses

None.

Purpose

The purpose of the attachments API is to return information about form data attachments.

Interface

• URL: /fr/service/$app/$form/attachments?document=$document
• Method: GET

Request parameters:

• document: the id of the document (form data) to retrieve

Request body:

• none

Response body:

• Content-Type: application/xml
• each child element contains
  • as text data the path to the attachment
  • name attribute: the associated control name
  • filename, mediatype, size: attachment metadata

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<attachments>
    <attachment name="my-image" filename="sunset.png" mediatype="image/png" size="19354">
        /fr/service/persistence/crud/a/a/data/cff2bb5313f6e28fa4fc5b96504102931359e902/51c42c10beec2a7a428667c84c4df998ddec2322.bin
    </attachment>
    <attachment name="other-image" filename="africa.jpg" mediatype="image/jpeg" size="169202">
        /fr/service/persistence/crud/a/a/data/cff2bb5313f6e28fa4fc5b96504102931359e902/11b03cbe6d2dab4876c97229dacf9cbb76df5bb7.bin
    </attachment>
</attachments>

Permissions

The caller must either call the service internally or have proper credentials to access the data (username, group, roles).