GetFile

Filter inputs

Name	Type	Description	Mandatory	Available from version
FileInfoGet	FileInfoGeneral	The information needed to identify the file to be retrevied.

Response of type GetFileResponse

Name	Type	Description	Available from version
FileBytes	byte[]	The data of the file as byte array
FileName	string	The name of the file
FileContentType	string	The content type of the file, as it was saved in BFS
CustomFields	CustomFields[]	CustomFields is an array of CustomField objects. Each CustomField consists of two strings, FieldName and Value. There are no datatypes associated with these properties, they are just a way for api-users to add customized data to the object.	2.28

Code examples

//example of how to fetch a file from an instance of BFS
var client = new BFSServiceReference.bfsapiSoapClient();
 
var credentials = new BFSServiceReference.Credentials()
{
    UserName = bfsusername, //Username of administrative user in your instance of BFS
    Password = bfspassword, //Password of the administrative user in your instance of BFS
};
GetFileResponse oResp = client.GetFile(new BFSServiceReference.GeFileRequest()
{
    Credentials = credentials,
    identify = bfsidentifier, //Identifier is a unique token for your instance of BFS
    FileInfoGet = new FileInfoGeneral
            {
                BrickId = new Guid("3ac97391-451d-4e2f-843b-75124d2e09f2") //an example Guid
            },
});
if (oResp.Message == "OK")
            {
                byte[] oFileByteDL = oResp.FileBytes;
                System.IO.FileStream oFileStreamDL = null;
                oFileStreamDL = new FileStream(@"c:\temp\download\" + oResp.FileName, FileMode.Create); //an example of how to save the data being fetched from BFS
                oFileStreamDL.Write(oFileByteDL, 0, oFileByteDL.Length);
                oFileStreamDL.Close();
                oFileStreamDL = null;
            }