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Locating the Files Corresponding to a Given Key

Overview

This article provides the steps on how to find the files that correspond to a given key in a Binary content. Let's now review the process the application uses to create the file name from the given key.

Information

The following is an internal process followed by an example.

  1. Convert the dashes to ASCII Value (45).
  2. Reverse the key.
  3. Create two files append the .bin and .key extension.
    1. The .bin contains binary content.
    2. The .key holds the unscrambled binary content key.
  4. Both files are placed in the directory structure based on the first three characters.

E.g., attachment-1101 is placed as 101154tnemchatta.bin + 101154tnemhcatta.key in the directory 
"<storage provider root>\1\0\1\".

Another example: The binary content portion of the upload shows up in jiveBinStore table as:

binkey [PK] character varying namespace [PK] character recordtype integer datasize bigint bindata bytea
binaryBody-1001 jiveSBS 1 84108 <binary data>

 

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Knowing the Binkey Format for a Given Piece of Content

 

 

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  1. Priyanka Bhotika

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