Download document returning "File is not defined"

[stshelton]

Currently using firebase's node js cloud servers and want to download images of documents to my own storage to later show user. Yet when I try to download the image from onfido js-client I get an error saying "File is not defined". Any idea why? I am new to node.js and backend should I be parsing the return object to a certain type of file ??

[GiuliaDi]

Hi! could you please contact the Onfido support team at api@onfido.com? Could you also please give us more details on how you are downloading the documents? (i.e. the request that you sent to the Onfido API) Best regards

[Aldekein]

The error is still there. Didn't no one try to download files for more than a year? Here's an example code:

const Onfido = require('onfido');
var fs = require('fs');
const secret = fs.readFileSync('config/onfido_token.txt', 'utf8');
const defaultClient = Onfido.ApiClient.instance;
const tokenAuth = defaultClient.authentications['Token'];
tokenAuth.apiKey = 'token='+secret;
tokenAuth.apiKeyPrefix = 'Token';
const api = new Onfido.DefaultApi();
const document = await api.downloadDocument('INSERT applicantId HERE', 'INSERT documentId HERE');

It will give an error:

ReferenceError: File is not defined
    at exports.downloadDocumentWithHttpInfo (/private/var/www/onfido-backuper/node_modules/onfido/src/api/DefaultApi.js:406:24)
    at exports.downloadDocument (/private/var/www/onfido-backuper/node_modules/onfido/src/api/DefaultApi.js:422:19)
...

In DefaultApi.js you can see:

      var authNames = ['Token'];
      var contentTypes = [];
      var accepts = ['*/*', 'application/json'];
      var returnType = File;     // <------------ there an unknown variable is referenced

      return this.apiClient.callApi(
        '/applicants/{applicant_id}/documents/{document_id}/download', 'GET',
        pathParams, queryParams, collectionQueryParams, headerParams, formParams, postBody,
        authNames, contentTypes, accepts, returnType
      );

When using var returnType = 'Blob'; it works as it should.