[ansible-project] Support looking up binary files as HTTP-based APIs are increasingly supporting uploading of BASE64 encoded binaries in JSON documents.

[Behrang Saeedzadeh]

Hi,

This is in regards to #11594 
<https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/11594>. Many APIs these days 
allow embedding BASE64 encoded binary data in JSON documents. Here's an 
example <https://docs.databricks.com/api/latest/workspace.html#import> from 
Databricks, wherein the "content" field can contain BASE64 encoded binary 
data:

{
  "content": "MSsx\n",
  "path": "/Users/u...@example.com/project/ScalaExampleNotebook",
  "language": "SCALA",
  "overwrite": true,
  "format": "SOURCE"}


The lookup command cannot load binary files though. Consequently, we need 
to use `command` and `curl` in our Ansible playbooks.

Any plans to allow embedding BASE64-encoded binaries in JSON payloads when 
using the `uri` module?

Thanks in advance,
Behrang


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