Introduction

It has long been possible to store binary files in MarkLogic. In the MarkLogic 5 release in 2011, binary support was enhanced to allow for even more control over binary files.

The purpose of this Knowledgebase article is not to cover MarkLogic's binary support in depth but to demonstrate a technique for retrieving a list of URIs for binary files which are managed in a MarkLogic Database.

Retrieving a list of binary document URIs from MarkLogic Server

The following code will use a call to cts:uris to get back a list of all URIs pointing to binary documents for a given MarkLogic database; note that this example assumes that you have the uri lexicon enabled in your database: