Subj : Saving binary from base64 with File class
To   : All
From : Nightfox
Date : Sat Sep 19 2015 08:31 pm

Hi all,

I was looking at the Synchronet JavaScript API documentation for the File
class:
http://www.synchro.net/docs/jsobjs.html#File
It says the File class has support for binary files and automatic Base64
decoding (among other features).  It sounds to me like if I have some
Base64-encoded data, I should be able to write that to a file using the File
class and it will automatically decode it to binary format.  I've tried opening
a file with the mode "wb" (write binary) and using the write() method to write
the Base64-encoded data.  It's not decoding the data to binary though - it's
just writing the Base64 string to the file.  Might I be missing a step to get
it to convert Base64 data to binary?

Basically my flow is this:

var B64Data = "some Base64-encoded data";
var destFile = new File("someFile.bin");
if (destFile.open("wb"))
{
   destFile.write(B64Data);
   destFile.close();
}

Nightfox

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