I have a requirement where I need to download binary file of a multimedia component but when I access the properties exposed of BinaryContentData
class then there is no property to download an image file. Although for uploading file, Core Service have a property namely UploadFromFile
.
So is there a way to download binary file to a temp location. Below is the code I am using:
core_service.ServiceReference1.SessionAwareCoreService2010Client client = new SessionAwareCoreService2010Client();
client.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.UserName = "myUserName";
client.ClientCredentials.Windows.ClientCredential.Password = "myPassword"; client.Open();
ComponentData component = (ComponentData)client.TryCheckOut(
multimediaComponentURI, new ReadOptions());
BinaryContentData binaryData = component.BinaryContent;
Please Suggest.
There is a helper function called streamDownloadClient.DownloadBinaryContent
inside Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.dll that you can use.
I have created the following function that I usually reuse for that purpose:
private static void CreateBinaryFromMultimediaComponent(string tcm)
{
Tridion.ContentManager.CoreService.Client.StreamDownloadClient streamDownloadClient = new StreamDownloadClient();
SessionAwareCoreServiceClient client = new SessionAwareCoreServiceClient("netTcp_2011");
ComponentData multimediaComponent = client.Read(tcm, new ReadOptions()) as ComponentData;
// Generate you own file name, and file location
string file = "D:\\MyTempLocation\\" + Path.GetFilename(multimediaComponent.BinaryContent.Filename);;
// Write out the existing file from Tridion
FileStream fs = File.Create(file);
byte[] binaryContent = null;
if (multimediaComponent.BinaryContent.FileSize != -1)
{
Stream tempStream = streamDownloadClient.DownloadBinaryContent(tcm);
var memoryStream = new MemoryStream();
tempStream.CopyTo(memoryStream);
binaryContent = memoryStream.ToArray();
}
fs.Write(binaryContent, 0, binaryContent.Length);
fs.Close();
}