Hello,

I’m currently working on the integration of BaseX in part of our .Net based software. One part of the functionality will be to store and retrieve binary files. I haven’t been able to retrieve the raw files from the server yet using C#. I based my solution on the example of the C# client in the source code repository of BaseX. With my current solution I receive only the first few (3 to 7) bytes of the file (at least I think they are…).

The code I have at the moment is:

/// <summary>

/// Retrieves a RAW document from the database. The database must be opened before executing this command.

/// </summary>

/// <param name="path">The path to the binary data to be retrieved</param>

/// <returns>A byte array with the binary data</returns>

public byte[] Retrieve(string path)

        {

//stream.WriteByte((byte)BaseXCommand.QUERY);

            Send("RETRIEVE " + path);

//Send(path);

using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())

            {

                Receive(ms);

                info = Receive();

if (!Ok())

                {

throw new IOException(info);

                }

return ms.ToArray();

}

        }

Can anybody please tell me what the problem with this solution can be or give me a hint for a correct way to retrieve the raw bytes? I know I can use the files on disk directly, but would rather not go that way.

Thanks in advance for your reaction!

Kind regards,

Björn Boxstart