It is not recommended that you persist your binary data in your entities, it may slow down your application. For that purpose, the platform provides a File Service Interface to save/retrieve binary files that may be up to 50 GB.

The FileService is available from the inpaas.core.files interface.

File Uploads

Use the FileService interface to persist binary or large data, the upload method will return an id that can be used to retrieve the data later on. You may want to store that id in your entity, for that, use a Long data type.

var fileId = require("inpaas.core.files").upload({
    name: "hello-world.txt",
    contentType: "text/plain",
    data: "Hello World!"
});
  
return fileId;

That data attribute could be a byte array, or a file uploaded to your web service. If you are receiving data in Base64 format, you may use the "b64" attribute:

var fileId = require("inpaas.core.files").upload({
    name: "hello-world.txt",
    contentType: "text/plain",
    b64: "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQh"
});
  
return fileId;

Downloading Files

If you have the id, generated from the upload method, you may want to retrieve the data from the storage, use the download method for that.

return require("inpaas.core.files").download(fileId);

Reading Text Data

You may also want to read large text files uploaded, for that purpose, there's a read method which will read text files line-by-line:

var myData = []
 
var reader = require("inpaas.core.files").read(fileId, function(index, line) {
    myData.push({ "ln": index, "text": line });
 
});
       
return myData;