---
title: "Encode & Decode Actions"
slug: "encode-and-decode-actions"
description: "This is a list of actions that can be used in RapidIdentity Connect to encode and decode data within the system."
tags: ["RapidIdentity ", "Connect", "Actions", "Encode", "Decode"]
updated: 2022-06-02T20:48:50Z
published: 2022-06-02T20:48:50Z
canonical: "help.rapididentity.com/encode-and-decode-actions"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.rapididentity.com/llms.txt
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# Encode and Decode Actions

## Encode & Decode Actions

### decodeBase64ToBytes

Decode Base64 encoded data to a byte array.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to decode |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
userXML = loadFileAsXML("users/user.dsml")
photoBytes = decodeBase64ToBytes(userXML.photo[0]);
saveToFile("user.jpg", photoBytes)
```

### decodeBase64ToString

Decode Base64 encoded data to a string.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to decode |
| charset | text, expression, variable | character set encoding for converting bytes to characters(default: UTF-8) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
authHeader = {Authorization: "Basic dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ="}
b64Credentials = splitString(authHeader.Authorization, "/\s+/")
textCredentials = decodeBase64ToString(b64Credentials[2], "UTF-8")
splitCredentials = splitString(textCredentials, ":", 2)
username = splitCredentials[0]
password = splitCredentials[1]
```

### decodeHexToBytes

Decode Ascii Hex encoded data to a byte array.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to decode |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
md5hashBytes = decodeHexToBytes(md5hash)
```

### decodeHexToString

Decode Ascii Hex encoded data to a string.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to decode |
| charset | text, expression, variable | character set encoding for converting bytes to characters(default: UTF-8) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
string = decodeHexToString(hexstring)
```

### encodeBytesToBase64

Encode a byte array as Base64.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to encode |
| breakLines | boolean, expression, variable | break base64 output into lines (default: false) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
ldapRecord = getLDAPRecord(ldapConnection,"cn=jdoe,ou=people,o=data","photo")
photoBase64 = encodeBytesToBase64(ldapRecord.photo,true)
```

### encodeBytesToHex

Encode a byte array as Ascii Hex.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to encode |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
md5hash = encodeBytesToHex(md5hashBytes)
```

### encodeStringToBase64

Encode a string as Base64.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to encode |
| charset | text, expression, variable | character set encoding for converting characters to bytes(default: UTF-8) |
| breakLines | boolean, expression, variable | break base64 output into lines (default: false) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
xml = <foo><bar/></foo>
base64XML = encodeStringToBase64(xml.toXMLString())
setRecordFieldValue(record, "someBase64Field", base64XML)
```

### encodeStringToHex

Encode a string as Ascii Hex.

| Property | Value | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| data* | expression, variable | data to encode |
| charset | text, expression, variable | character set encoding for converting characters to bytes(default: UTF-8) |
| returnVariable | expression, variable | name of the variable to be assigned to the return value |

```actionscript
hex = decodeHexToString(string)
```