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Does MI support the transport of binary files, like .BMP, .DOC, .PPT, .PDF or other document formats, between the mobile device and the server?

April 26, 2017binary DOCUMENT files mi support transport

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Does MI support the transport of binary files, like .BMP, .DOC, .PPT, .PDF or other document formats, between the mobile device and the server?

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In general, the MI Smart Synchronization doesn’t support the transport of binary files. There is the workaround that the application developer implements the transfer of binary data in a Base64-coded text format using the the Smart Sync text field. However, the smart sync text filed has a max length of 255 characters. Hence the binary data needs to be split over multiple text fields, which decreases the performance. A similar workaround can theoretically by used by using generic data containers (also known as Attachment Data Containers) for Generic Synchronization.