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Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 09:24:38 -0700
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Subject: Re: Accessing attachments from a show function?
From: Chris Anderson <jchris@apache.org>
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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Timothy Shead <tshead@sandia.gov> wrote:
> Is there any way to access a document's attachments (the actual bytes, not
> just the attachment metadata) from within a show function?
>

Sorry, there is not -- the query server isn't sent attachments as that
would just be too much data for it to process.

I'd be open to a patch to make show function requests respect
?attachments=true if anyone wants to work on it.

Chris

> Thanks in advance,
> Tim
>
> --
> Timothy M. Shead
> Sandia National Laboratories
> 1424, Data Analysis and Visualization
>
>


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