Is there a way to send zip attachments with events?

[AdamGerthel]

I've read the documentation on attachments, but I'm having trouble figuring out whether I can attach files such as a Realm database (.realm) or a zipped such database. The size is not an issue, the database is small (< 300kb).

So far I've tried zipping it using react-native-zip-archive and then read the file using RNFS.readFile and attaching it that way. I did get the file as attachment but it wasn't a functional zip archive anymore. It does seem like there's some way, but I feel like my knowledge around files/buffers/streams/encoding etc. is making this very difficult for me to achieve. Here's roughly where I'm currently at:

  const zipPath = `${RNFS.DocumentDirectoryPath}/realm.zip`
  const databasePath = await this.database.getPath()
  const zippedDatabase = await zip([databasePath], zipPath)
  const zipContent = await RNFS.readFile(zippedDatabase, 'base64')

  Sentry.getCurrentScope().addAttachment({
    contentType: 'application/zip',
    filename: 'realm.zip',
    data: zipContent
  })

That, however, results in a broken zip file.

Does anyone have any valuable input on how I could go about achieving this?

[AdamGerthel]

Solved by converting to Uint8Array before attaching it!

async function fileToUint8Array(filePath: string) {
  const fileBuffer = await RNFS.readFile(filePath, 'base64')
  const binaryBuffer = Buffer.from(fileBuffer, 'base64')
  return new Uint8Array(binaryBuffer)
}