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FengFeng 

How to assign value to body field of an attachment record ?

when i try to create an attachment record in my testmethod
 
Code:
Attachment newatt = new Attachment();
  newatt.Name = 'test attachment';
  newatt.Body = 0;
  newatt.ParentId = obj.Id;
  insert newatt;

the code  newatt.Body = 0; failed
how to assign value to the body field as this field is base64 data type
 
thanks in advance
 
Feng
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body is of type blob in apex. Look for examples of blob in apex dev-guide. simple example to convert string to blob is below,
Code:
blob b = blob.valueof('hello');