reading file to base64 string

[Former Community Member]

Hi,

what is the right way to read some file from local filesystem to string variable as a base64 encoded data ?

I am doing this now by BeanShell :-/ (read file, convert it into base64 and put this to some variable).

Is it possible to do this somehow with standard Read Document service and "data coercing" - to coerce Document to binary and somehow to translate it to base64 ?

Thanks.

[Former Community Member]

Sorry, I missed completely missed the xPath method:

getDocConententBase64(/process_data/@myDocument)

I very like executeScript component, but it is very bad idea to implement here algorithms for e.g. encoding.