Force create file from varbinary(max) - coldfusion

I have a need to transfer files from one application to another using ColdFusion 9. In application 'A' - the files are stored as varbinary(max). The API for application 'B' requires a path and filename. I'd like to be able to save the file from 'A' without interaction from the user so that I can pass the path/filename to the API for 'B'.
I've tried various cfheader/cfcontent combinations - but all of them require interaction from the user. Is there anyway to automate this?
Both 'A' and 'B' are vendor packages - so I don't have the flexibility to change how files are stored or imported.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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I am trying to get my first dashboard with python dash running.
The whole thing is very similar to this https://github.com/dkrizman/dash-manufacture-spc-dashboard.
At the beginning a Dataframe is read in from a csv. My problem seems to be quite easy to solve but somehow I am not succeeding:
I want to create a initial window that allows the user to select (from e.g. dropdown) the csv file (or accordingly the path) that is read in. All the .csv files look the same but just have different values.
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How to get a list of members out of an IBM i file?

New to using IBM i here, and haven't been able to find the solution to this problem in the Knowledge Base.
I have a library. Inside that library I have a file. Inside that file I have several members. Every member is a .c file.
What I want to do is write a .cpp that looks inside that file at the members, get each member's name, and then run CL stuff with the member.
Using qp0z1170.h I am confident I know how to run the CL commands, but I can not seem to figure out how to iterate through the list of members and get their names.
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DSPFD FILE(LIB/FILE) TYPE(*MBRLIST) OUTPUT(*OUTFILE) OUTFILE(LIB/TARGET)
Sounds like you're dealing with a source physical file (PF-SRC)...
Luckily, a PF-SRC is still a database table..
Just use the List Database File Members (QUSLMBR) API
Note that it returns data via a user space...so you're going to need to use the *USRSPC API's to process the data.
Create User Space (QUSCRTUS) API
Change User Space Attributes (QUSCUSAT) API
Retrieve Pointer to User Space (QUSPTRUS) API
Delete User Space (QUSDLTUS) API
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Python in Knime: Downloading files and dynamically pressing them into workflow

I'm using Knime 3.1.2 on OSX and Linux for OPENMS analysis (Mass Spectrometry).
Currently, it uses static filename.mzML files manually put in a directory. It usually has more than one file pressed in at a time ('Input FileS' module not 'Input File' module) using a ZipLoopStart.
I want these files to be downloaded dynamically and then pressed into the workflow...but I'm not sure the best way to do that.
Currently, I have a Python script that downloads .gz files (from AWS S3) and then unzips them. I already have variations that can unzip the files into memory using StringIO (and maybe pass them into the workflow from there as data??).
It can also download them to a directory...which maybe can them be used as the source? But I don't know how to tell the ZipLoop to wait and check the directory after the python script is run.
I also could have the python script run as a separate entity (outside of knime) and then, once the directory is populated, call knime...HOWEVER there will always be a different number of files (maybe 1, maybe three)...and I don't know how to make the 'Input Files' knime node to handle an unknown number of input files.
I hope this makes sense.
Thanks!
Thanks to Gábor for getting me on the right track. Although I ended up doing a slightly different route after much experimentation.
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Being new to Knime, I don't know if this is an efficient use of Knime, or a complete Kluge...but it does work.
So, part of the problem is some of the Knime specific objects - One of which is called URIDataValue.
A Python Pandas dataframe is, apparently, interchangable with the Knime tables. However, I don't know if there's a way to import one of these URIDataValue objects into Python. So here's what I did...
1. I wrote a Python script that creates a Pandas Dataframe, and populates it with one Column. Everything is a string, including the column header:
from pandas import DataFrame
# Create empty table
T = DataFrame(
[
['file:///Users/.../copy/lfq_spikein_dilution_1.mzML'],
['file:///Users/.../copy/lfq_spikein_dilution_2.mzML'],
],
)
T.columns = ['URIDataValue']
#print T
output_table = T
That creates this dataframe:
Note: The column name and values are just strings. But it is (apparently) important that the column header be 'URIDataValue'...even though HERE it's just text. If the column name is not 'URIDataValue' the next node doesn't know what to do.
NEXT, the 'output_table' from the 'Python Source' node is patched to a 'String to URI' node, which (apparently and magically) knows to change the entire columns string values to URIDataValues (presumably based on the name of the first column...don't know that for sure).
Finally, the NEW table, with the correct data objects goes to a 'URI to PORT' node...since apparently 'Port' objects and a 'URI' object are different.
This, then, matches the needed input to the ZipLoop...which is normally the out put from a static (hard coded) 'Input Files' node.
Now, to actually solve the question above, I just have to add the code to my 'Python Source' to download and unzip the S3 files, then annotate the dataframe with their locations, and go.
I have no idea what I'm doing, but it worked.
There are multiple options to let things work:
Convert the files in-memory to a Binary Object cells using Python, later you can use that in KNIME. (This one, I am not sure is supported, but as I remember it was demoed in one of the last KNIME gatherings.)
Save the files to a temporary folder (Create Temp Dir) using Python and connect the Pyhon node using a flow variable connection to a file reader node in KNIME (which should work in a loop: List Files, check the Iterate List of Files metanode).
Maybe there is already S3 Remote File Handling support in KNIME, so you can do the downloading, unzipping within KNIME. (Not that I know of, but it would be nice.)
I would go with option 2, but I am not so familiar with Python, so for you, probably option 1 is the best. (In case option 3 is supported, that is the best in my opinion.)

Django giving user the ability to manage files/images

I need help understanding hot to go about giving my users the ability to upload and remove files in the same form.
Is there a demo some were i can find?
It seems a pretty redundant task but i cant find a documentation on that.
Not talking about admin.
Thanks.
Not sure what you mean by 'in the same form'. Do you want to upload a new file while marking a already uploaded file as to-be-deleted?
You could put a list of existing files as MultipleChoiceField underneath your FileField and delete whichever the user selected as part of your form processing.
There is also a whole lot of 3rd party packages which might suit your needs:
https://www.djangopackages.com/grids/g/file-managers/
Since I can't comment yet.
You probably want to solve it with ajax requests
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- File 1 [Trash] --GET--> /delete/1
- File 2 [Trash]
- File 3 [Trash]
- File 1 [Trash]
I've created a demo project to show how this works.
You can find it at https://github.com/trostik/djangoimagemanage
Hope it helps some one.
Cheers

File downloader suggestions

I need to provide non-techie user ability to reliable download a few large files (3Gb) from URL without revealing the source URL of the file. Ideally I need single exe (without dependencies) that will download file from URL, specified inside exe: when user click on exe it just need show prompt where to save the file, and(optionally) will provide the user with some progress bar, for instance. The target URL can be specified directly in
the resource section, so I can edit URL path with HEX editor when I need set another path.
Wget are not suitable in my case, as its command line utility and requires user to specify an URL.
You could use the URLDownloadToFile function. Implement the IBindStatusCallback interface to receive progress information.
You really can't hide the source URL. Why are you trying to do that? If an end user runs tcpdump while they are running your program, they'll see where packets are coming from and going to.
I'd just provide them with a small batch file which calls ftp.exe. Tell your end user to drop the .BAT file where the downloaded file should go, and click it.
That solves quite a few problems, e.g. you know that your end user will be able to find the directory.