idea ArcGIS Server REST API Support BLOB Fields in ArcGIS Enterprise Ideas https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idi-p/969881 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>I have a 3rd party GIS application that adds images to a SQL Server database via a BLOB field.&nbsp; I want to be able to easily access these images in their native format in the BLOB field from an ArcGIS Server based application.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the ArcGIS Server REST API does not support BLOBs.&nbsp; As such, the current workaround is to store the images in another format that can be read by the ArcGIS Server REST API, which results in duplication of storage.&nbsp; From other ESRI forum posts, I can see that there are other 3rd party GIS applications/vendors that store data in BLOB format so I'm sure this would be useful for other developers as well. <!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000004eFn --> </BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 May 2013 14:31:32 GMT MichaelVolz 2013-05-14T14:31:32Z ArcGIS Server REST API Support BLOB Fields https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idi-p/969881 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>I have a 3rd party GIS application that adds images to a SQL Server database via a BLOB field.&nbsp; I want to be able to easily access these images in their native format in the BLOB field from an ArcGIS Server based application.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the ArcGIS Server REST API does not support BLOBs.&nbsp; As such, the current workaround is to store the images in another format that can be read by the ArcGIS Server REST API, which results in duplication of storage.&nbsp; From other ESRI forum posts, I can see that there are other 3rd party GIS applications/vendors that store data in BLOB format so I'm sure this would be useful for other developers as well. <!-- content transformation source ID: 087E00000004eFn --> </BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 May 2013 14:31:32 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idi-p/969881 MichaelVolz 2013-05-14T14:31:32Z Re: ArcGIS Server REST API Support BLOB Fields https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idc-p/969882#M1410 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>This would be most helpful! <!-- content transformation source ID: 00aE0000002yjib --> </BODY></HTML> Tue, 14 May 2013 14:51:14 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idc-p/969882#M1410 DustinWiersma2 2013-05-14T14:51:14Z Re: ArcGIS Server REST API Support BLOB Fields https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idc-p/969883#M1411 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>If you are using a GPService to access your images, you could encode them in base64, so it will be passed as strings through the REST API.</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 07 Jun 2017 13:31:37 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idc-p/969883#M1411 MaximeDemers 2017-06-07T13:31:37Z Re: ArcGIS Server REST API Support BLOB Fields - Status changed to: Implemented https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idc-p/1317033#M3397 <P>This is currently possible in ArcGIS Enterprise.</P> Wed, 09 Aug 2023 17:45:09 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-enterprise-ideas/arcgis-server-rest-api-support-blob-fields/idc-p/1317033#M3397 jill_es 2023-08-09T17:45:09Z