We have an ATS that runs on Oracle and we have a tool to get data out of it but the trick of it is that it’s in base64 compressed string…  Yeah if you missed any of that this post isn’t for you.

So what I get is a string, quite large, that I need to run through a base64 decoder and then (just to add a little challenge) it becomes a zip that you have to extract the original file out of, but not in the pretty Microsoft way, you have to use something like 7zip to get the job done… Not sure if this is a consideration but the 7zip CLI is 7za.exe and it only comes in a 32 bit flavor…

If you’ve gotten this far in the post you’ll know I’m talking about Taleo and using TCC to trigger this process.  This post is a working documentation on getting this done…