ng:payloadToString

ng:payloadToString

The function ng:payloadToString('encoding') is to be used in workflows only.

 

It converts the payload into a string.

 

The encoding can e.g. be 'UTF-8' like in this example:

 

ng:payloadToString('utf-8')

 

A related function is ng:varToString().

 

This built-in function was added as an aid for those, that wants to call external Http(s) rest apis. If the api expects a string, then this function can be used to convert a binary payload into string. An example for how this can be used is included here.

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