Accessing feature attachments using ArcObjects?

Question

I am attempting to access a feature's attachments in ArcObjects and I'm following the docs for Working with feature attachments. Everything is fine until attempt to access IAttachment.Data because I am expecting there to be data, but that property is null:

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which means I can't proceed past: IMemoryBlobStream memoryBlobStream = attachment.Data;

I am thinking there is a missing step (or steps) in the docs that would fill the attachment object's Data property with actual data? How is this done?

I am able to access the attachment via the Identify window within ArcMap, so I know the data is there:

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Answer 1

The issue was a combination of me copying the wrong snippet of code and not fully reading the docs that I had referenced in my question!

The Boolean parameter ("Info Only") of these methods determines which properties of the returned attachments will be populated.

I had copied:

IEnumAttachment enumAttachment = attachmentManager.GetAttachmentsByParentIDs (parentIdArray, true);

Changing it to false brings brings back the .Data value:

IEnumAttachment enumAttachment = attachmentManager.GetAttachmentsByParentIDs (parentIdArray, false);

Both lines of code are present in the docs.

Answer 2

I have never done this using the .NET SDK, but I have used this python script in the past:

import arcpy, os, sys
arcpy.env.overwriteOutput = True
def extract_attachments(out_ws, table, blob_field, filename_fld):
 '''
 Code adopted from "Another GIS Blog"
 http://anothergisblog.blogspot.nl/2012/06/working-with-blob-data-at-101-arcpyda.html
 """ Exports all attachments from a geodatabase to a new location """
 Required:
 out_ws -- location for attachments
 table -- table or feature class containing attachment info
 blob_field -- field containing attachment files
 filename_fld -- field name containing file name
 '''
 # make sure out_ws exists, if not create
 if not os.path.exists(out_ws):
 os.makedirs(out_ws)
 # search cursor
 c = 0
 with arcpy.da.SearchCursor(table, ['REL_OBJECTID', blob_field, filename_fld]) as rows:
 for row in rows:
 roid, binRep, fileName = row
 if binRep:
 out_file = os.path.join(out_ws, 'OID_' + '_'.join(map(str, [roid, fileName])))
 open(out_file, 'wb').write(binRep.tobytes())
 c += 1
 arcpy.AddMessage('Exported {0} attachments to: "{1}"'.format(c, out_ws))
 return
if __name__ == '__main__':
 # run as script tool
 extract_attachments(*sys.argv[1:])

Does this have to be done in ArcObjects?