[IDEA] Add attachment functionality to destination response

[RunnenLate]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
We are hitting a lot of REST endpoints that return a PDF and it would be helpful to have the ability to process that response as an attachment the same way an attachment is processed before the source.

Describe your use case
Store a PDF within a response as an attachment to reduce on logging and processing within Mirth connect.

Describe the solution you'd like
An optional attachment button within an HTTP Sender to capture an attachment the same way one is captured via the source

Describe alternatives you've considered
Currently, as a workaround, we are initiating the requests via a JavaScript Writer using the HttpGet and then adding it as an attachment.

[pacmano1]

You can just call addAttachment in the response transformer in a normal http sender.

for a json response that looks like:

it would be the below to grab the CDA and base64 encode it (not necessary of course for a CDA).

addAttachment(msg[0]['getccdainfo'][0]['ccdaxml'].toString()), 'application/xml',true)

[RunnenLate]

True but that doesn't accomplish what I was hoping to avoid and that's logging the entire PDF in the response.

[pacmano1]

The response needs to be collected of course with or without a button. It's an interesting idea of course just suggesting another workaround not mentioned your initial feature request. On a side note, we always set response transformer data types to raw so the response transformer always fires such that we can fully inspect the result (e.g. the response code, the data, handle sendAttempts, possibly set a message to sent even if errored, add some part of the response JSON as an attachment and so on).

[RunnenLate]

I should have added this before but you can workaround this by using the org.apache.http libraries and calling the endpoint in javascript to get the response back without logging it.

var httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
var httpPost = new HttpGet($('URL'))
httpPost.addHeader('Authorization', 'Bearer ' +$('token'))
var resp = httpclient.execute(httpPost);
var status = resp.getStatusLine()
if (status.toString().match(/200+/g)) {
	var entity = resp.getEntity();
	var responseArray = EntityUtils.toByteArray(entity);
	var base64pdf = org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64.encodeBase64String(responseArray)
	addAttachment(base64pdf, 'application/pdf', false)
	var error = null
 	updateResult(error, base64pdf)
}

Need to code something for Web Service Sender payload now.