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Status Submitted
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 20, 2026

IBM Toolkit - development of REST API Applications -- provide support for binary/blob data handling

Today, we see as lot of REST application handling binary data. A simple example is the upload of a file. 
See the OpenAPI extract below.

Unfortunately the IBM Toolkit is only able to handle JSON data formats for the REST API. 
This means e.g. when generating a REST API application based on a OpenAPI spec - the definition of binary data is 'just ignored'.
The same is true when updating an existing REST API project with a new/modified OpenAPI spec.

This is quite annoying as all required code changes within ACE need to be done 'manually'. 
Having an 'automatic support' for such binary data would make development much more easier and efficient.  

=== sample OpenAPI spec with a simple file upload

  # ---------- Upload the file ----------
  /api/uploads/{id}:
    put:
      summary: Upload file content (raw)
      operationId: uploadFile
      tags:
        - uploads
      parameters:
        - name: id
          in: path
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: traceparent
          in: header
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
      requestBody:
        description: The raw file content as octet-stream.
        required: true
        content:
          application/octet-stream:
            schema:
              type: string
              format: binary

Idea priority Low