Plugin request a url and save a file in the database

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Hi all,
Hope everybody doing well !

I’m trying to create my first plugin and it’s not easy for me !
Firstly my code work on my sdk but the hard thing for me it’s get my code work on bubble !

My pluging send a request to a website to get data and put it in a file then this file should be save in the database ! So the first part is done, but i still don’t understant how to inject my file in my database with the plugin editor.
Bellow you can see how i do that, i’m still beginner on bubble It’s quiete hard to find a tutorial.

There is something I don’t understand. How should I connect my database to my pluggin ? Where is connection ?

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Thank you and have a good day !
William

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I don’t think you can access fs.. I think you would have to create a blob and return that. It’s then up to the user save it to the database.

What I used to do to learn is take another plugin that has a similar functionality and learn from it.

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Hey there.

You can’t access the file system from server side actions. That means you cannot read or write files from here. What you can do is generate a file as a Data URI (it’s basically files as text) but that adds 30% to your file size. If it’s a basic file like .txt or .csv then you can just return the file as a string in that case, that won’t increase the file size.

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Thank you for you answer Indeed you can’t access to the fs unfortunetely .

Yes I tried to take another plugin but it seem different and that didn’t help me.

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Thank you Jonah !

Yep It’s juste texte (whatever .txt, .csv or other extension) and a just need to send me that data by mail after all…

Isn’t there a character limit for as string in bubble ? Mines could be very long :confused:

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Yes you’re correct, there is a 6MB limit (which really sucks). I’ve brought this up with some higher ups on the bubble plugin team before, they’re aware of the limits of what plugins can do:

  • 6MB maximum
  • 30 second time limit

Their response to me was to just do the work on the client side…

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You can convert the file into base64 and upload it on BUbble server-

Here is how you can upload the base64 to Bubble server- How to upload Base64 data in server side Bubble plugin action?

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Okay ! So I don’t think it will be enought for me :confused:
I’ll try to convert into base 64 and upload it !

Thank you ! I will be back when it work to give news !

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Thank you ! I’ll try to do that this afternoon.

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It’s a shame the only way to do it is by uploading files via post request

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Yes I agree. Is there a way to report that to bubble ?

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Hi everbody !

I worked on my project ! It’s better now but i met a new issue. I got this answer now :

Plugin action Myplugin (testing) error when parsing the response:
the key message is not part of the btype definition

My fonction return that :

                return `https://twitter.com/${userId}/status/${tweetId}`;
            });

then I use the fonction “JSON.stringify”.

But still the same problem, have you an idea ?

cheers