Binary data type / Support for API Action file responses

It’s not the first time someone creates a topic asking for helping dealing with server-side API Actions whose return data is a binary file instead of text. In the past, people dealing with Photoroom API

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I propose the creation of a new Binary data type, and support for the following modules:

• Respose: ability to return binary data as response (e.g.: PDF file)
• Base64 encode: ability to encode binary data to a Base64 string
• Base64 decode: ability to decode a Base64 string into binary data
• Write to disk: ability to write a binary data (file) to disk
• Read from disk: ability to read a binary data (file) from disk
• API Action: ability to POST a binary data file (the ability to POST a file is not currently implemented in Wappler core, there’s a third-party Wappler extension that could potentially be modified to work with the new Binary data type)
• API Action: ability to receive binary data as the response (the main example of this topic)